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February 22, 2022 9:59 pm

English: Lost in Translation

★★★☆☆ Sanaz Toosi’s play concerns a group of adult Iranian students attempting to learn English.

February 15, 2022 7:30 pm

Black No More: Sometimes More is Less

★★★☆☆ There’s a wealth of talent both on and off stage in this highly ambitious musical inspired by George S. Schuyler’s 1931 Afrofuturist novel.

January 26, 2022 8:51 pm

‘Skeleton Crew’: Blue Collar Angst, Without Much Depth

★★★☆☆ Dominique Morisseau’s drama, the third in her “Detroit Project Trilogy,” makes its Broadway debut.

January 25, 2022 9:01 pm

Long Day’s Journey into Night: A Tragedy for All the Wrong Reasons

★★☆☆☆ Director Robert O’Hara squanders the formidable talents of his lead performers in this grotesquely updated, heavily cut revival.

December 13, 2021 9:50 pm

Flying Over Sunset: A Bummer Theatrical Drug Trip

★★★☆☆ Aldous Huxley, Cary Grant and Clare Booth Luce trip on LSD in the new musical written and directed by James Lapine featuring a score by Tom Kitt and Michael Korie.

December 8, 2021 9:52 pm

Kimberly Akimbo: A Musical As Skewed As Its Title Character

★★★★☆ Victoria Clark plays a teenager afflicted with an illness that makes her grow old prematurely in the new musical by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori.

November 18, 2021 8:51 pm

Trouble in Mind: Better as Theatrical History Lesson Than Drama

★★★☆☆ Alice Childress’ groundbreaking play about racism makes its Broadway debut 66 years after its premiere.

November 16, 2021 9:00 pm

Medicine: Not What the Doctor Ordered

★★☆☆☆ Domhnall Gleeson plays an institutionalized man undergoing a unique form of drama therapy in Enda Walsh’s absurdist drama.

November 15, 2021 8:58 pm

Morning’s at Seven: Everything Old is Wonderfully New Again

★★★★☆ Sterling revival of Paul Osborn’s classic 1939 play features a dream cast of stage and screen veterans

November 11, 2021 7:51 pm

Nollywood Dreams: Hilarious Show Business Comedy, Nigerian Style

★★★★☆ Jocelyn Bioh’s new comedy uses the Nigerian film industry as a backdrop for show business satire.

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From Cambridge: Rhinoceros, Or Welcome to Zoo(dys)topia

By Bob Verini

★★★★★ John Turturro and Paul Giamatti topline a stunning cast in Diane Paulus’s revival, hilarious and horrifying by turns

The Winter’s Tale: Shakespeare’s Romance Right for Summer

By David Finkle

★★★★★ Daniel Sullivan directs with his standard skill, Raúl Esparza, Lily Rabe head superb cast

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By Frank Scheck

★★★☆☆ Jean Lichty plays the title role in this unevenly acted revival also featuring Montego Glover and Robert Sean Leonard

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By David Finkle

★★☆☆☆ The swift-tongued playwright takes on a flawed powerful woman, Sarna Lapine directs

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