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October 13, 2021 8:19 pm

Thoughts of a Colored Man: The Debut of an Important New Dramatic Voice

★★★★☆ Keenan Scott II’s poetic drama resonates with urgency and heart.

October 10, 2021 8:49 pm

Chicken & Biscuits: Funeral Plus Family Dysfunction Adds Up to Familiar

★★☆☆☆ Theatrical comfort food delivering a few laughs but empty calories.

October 7, 2021 8:50 pm

LACKAWANNA BLUES: RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON’S ACCLAIMED SOLO PLAY MAKES ITS BROADWAY DEBUT

★★★★☆ Previously adapted into an HBO film, the play returns to the form that suits it best, with its original writer/star.

August 22, 2021 5:50 pm

Pass Over: A Play That Speaks to Our Times

★★★★☆ Beckett meets Black Lives Matter in Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s racially charged absurdist drama.

July 2, 2021 1:40 pm

Enemy of the People: Ann Dowd in Reimagined, Interactive Ibsen

★★★☆☆ Ann Dowd plays the gender-altered lead role in Robert Icke’s interactive reimagining of Ibsen’s classic

June 29, 2021 10:20 pm

SEVEN DEADLY SINS: LIVE THEATER BEHIND GLASS

★★★☆☆ Moisés Kaufman directs seven vice-inspired one-acts, cleverly staged on the streets of the Meatpacking District

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Call Me Izzy: Jean Smart Extremely Smart in Smart Jamie Wax Character Study

By David Finkle

★★★★☆ Sarna Lapine directs the six-time Emmy winner soloing as a talented but oppressed trailer-park housewife

Call Me Izzy: Jean Smart Shines in a Dark New Play

By Roma Torre

★★★☆☆ The 'Hacks' star takes the Broadway stage solo, as an abused trailer park wife who just wants to write

Prosperous Fools: Taylor Mac Attacks, Unpersuasively

By Michael Sommers

★★☆☆☆ A grant-winning genius bites the philanthropic hands that feed him

Prosperous Fools: Taylor Mac Takes on Molière But Not Prosperously, Foolishly

By David Finkle

★☆☆☆☆ Darko Tresnjak directs the misguided satire, with Mac as Artist and Jason O'Connell and Sierra Boggess as other targets

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