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March 13, 2023 7:55 pm

The Coast Starlight: Strangers on a Train

★★★★☆ Keith Bunin’s play revolves around six passengers who imagine what they might have said to each other

March 9, 2023 8:24 pm

A Doll’s House: Ibsen Made Too Trendy for Words

★★☆☆☆ Jessica Chastain stars in Jamie Lloyd’s minimalist staging, resembling an actors’ exercise, of Ibsen’s classic.

February 28, 2023 7:27 pm

The Seagull/Woodstock, NY: The Chekhov Updating You Didn’t Need

★★☆☆☆ Parker Posey heads the cast of Thomas Bradshaw’s cheaply vulgar modern-day adaptation of Chekhov’s classic.

February 27, 2023 7:56 pm

The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window: Lorraine Hansberry’s Largely Forgotten Play Shows Signs of Life

★★★★☆ Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in Anne Kauffman’s revival of this long-neglected work by the author of “A Raisin in the Sun.”

February 14, 2023 8:59 pm

Cornelia Street: Not Yet a Destination Musical

★★★☆☆ Norbert Leo Butz and Mary Beth Peil are featured in this new musical written by Simon Stephens and scored by American Music Club’s Mark Eitzel.

February 9, 2023 9:53 pm

Pictures from Home: A Fuzzy Photograph-Themed Memory Play

★★★★☆ Nathan Lane, Zoe Wanamaker and Danny Burstein star in Sharr White’s dramedy based on Larry Sultan’s photo memoir.

January 25, 2023 6:58 pm

Without You: A Musical Memoir of Loss

★★★☆☆ Original “Rent” star Anthony Rapp delivers a musical evening based on his best-selling memoir.

January 23, 2023 8:30 pm

Colin Quinn Small Talk: Anything But

★★★★☆ The comedian’s latest solo show revolves around the idea that small talk is the glue that holds society together.

December 20, 2022 8:58 pm

The Collaboration: Warhol and Basquiat, a Bit on the Animatronic Side

★★★☆☆ Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope deliver riveting performances as the iconic artists in the latest historical drama by Anthony McCarten.

December 16, 2022 9:00 pm

Des Moines: Kitchen Sink Naturalism, Turned on Its Head

★★★★☆ A superb ensemble brings Denis Johnson’s strange, unsettling play to comic life.

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