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June 3, 2025 9:00 pm

Lunar Eclipse: A Moving Portrait of a Married Couple in Twilight

★★★★☆ Reed Birney and Lisa Emery play a long-married couple talking about their lives in Donald Margulies’ new drama

May 21, 2025 7:04 pm

Creditors: Strindberg Updated, For Better and Worse

★★★★☆ Liev Schreiber, Maggie Siff, and Justice Smith star in Jen Silverman’s adaptation of Strindberg’s classic drama.

May 20, 2025 7:22 pm

Lights Out, Nat King Cole: Smile When Your Heart Is Breaking

★★★☆☆ Dule Hill plays the title role in Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor’s play with music, exploring Nat King Cole’s troubled psyche.

May 8, 2025 8:59 pm

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes: Star Power Up Close

★★★★☆ Hugh Jackman and Ella Beatty co-star in this intimate drama about a university professor who has an affair with one of his students.

April 26, 2025 9:59 pm

Just in Time: A Bio-Musical Blast

★★★★☆ Jonathan Groff gloriously pays tribute to Bobby Darin in this electric, cabaret-style showcase for his talents

April 24, 2025 9:58 pm

Pirates! The Penzance Musical: Not for Purists, but Fun for Everyone Else

★★★★☆ Rupert Holmes delivers an entertaining, New Orleans-flavored adaptation of the classic Gilbert & Sullivan operetta

April 23, 2025 10:00 am

Grief Camp: Loss at an Emotional Remove

★★☆☆☆ Eliya Smith’s amorphous drama revolves around young campers working through bereavement issues.

April 14, 2025 10:59 pm

John Proctor Is the Villain: A #MeToo Conversation with ‘The Crucible’

★★★☆☆ Sadie Sink stars in Kimberly Belflower’s play about a high school class wrestling with the themes of Miller’s play.

April 7, 2025 8:59 pm

Boop!: Boop-Oop-a-Doop!

★★★★☆ Jasmine Amy Rogers adorably brings the venerable cartoon character to life in this Broadway musical directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell.

April 3, 2025 11:57 pm

Good Night, and Good Luck: Movie-to-Stage-to-Video

★★★☆☆ George Clooney makes his Broadway debut in this stage adaptation of the 2005 film which he directed, co-wrote and appeared in.

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By David Finkle

★★★★☆ Highly resourceful conceiver-director Daniel Fish gets theatrical again

Slam Frank: An Equal Opportunity Offender

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★★★☆☆ The Jewish teen author/Holocaust victim gets an audacious 21st-century musical glow-up

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