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Melissa Rose Bernardo

About Melissa Rose Bernardo

Melissa Rose Bernardo has been covering theater for more than 20 years, reviewing for Entertainment Weekly and contributing to such outlets as Broadway.com, Playbill, and the gone (but not forgotten) InTheater and TheaterWeek magazines. She is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan. Twitter: @mrbplus. Email: melissa@nystagereview.com.

May 21, 2025 7:03 pm

Creditors: Love, Marriage, and Maddening Mind Games

Creditors

★★★☆☆ Ian Rickson directs the rarely performed Strindberg work, with a refresh from playwright Jen Silverman

May 20, 2025 9:30 pm

Goddess: A Myth-Making, Magical New Musical

Goddess

★★★★☆ A luminous Amber Iman casts a spell in an ambitious Kenya-set show at the Public Theater

May 8, 2025 9:00 pm

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes: Let’s Hear It From the Boy

Ella Beatty and Hugh Jackman in Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes

★★★★☆ Hugh Jackman plays a professor entangled with a student in Hannah Moscovitch’s 90-minute drama

April 27, 2025 9:29 pm

Real Women Have Curves: Latina Stories Take Center Stage  

company of Real Women Have Curves

★★★★☆ Josefina López’s decades-old play turned movie turned musical resonates with audiences anew

April 26, 2025 10:00 pm

Just in Time: Hello, Bobby! Darin Gets a Splashy Broadway Tribute

Just in Time Christine Jonathan Julia

★★★★☆ Jonathan Groff gives a once-in-a-lifetime performance as the Grammy-winning “Beyond the Sea” singer

April 23, 2025 8:30 pm

Hold Me in the Water: An Intimate Boy-Meets-Boy Story

Hold Me Ryan J Haddad

★★★★☆ Ryan J. Haddad shares a tale of summer love in his autobiographical 70-minute one-man show

April 14, 2025 11:00 pm

John Proctor Is the Villain: A Fearless Gen Z Look at ‘The Crucible’

John Proctor Is the Villain cast

★★★★★ Director Danya Taymor and a dynamite cast bring Kimberly Belflower’s marvelous new play to Broadway

March 18, 2025 9:00 pm

Vanya: One Man, Nine Characters, Considerable Tragicomedy

Andrew Scott Vanya

★★★★☆ Andrew Scott takes on every role in Simon Stephens’ freewheeling adaptation of Chekhov’s much-produced play

March 11, 2025 9:59 pm

A Streetcar Named Desire: A Healthy Shot of Southern Discomfort

Paul Mescal and Anjana Vasan in A Streetcar Named Desire

★★★★☆ You want realism? You want magic? Rebecca Frecknall’s production, starring Paul Mescal, has both.

March 6, 2025 8:30 pm

Deep Blue Sound: A Whale of a Tale

Deep Blue Sound

★★★★★ Clubbed Thumb’s production of the poignant Abe Koogler play returns for a much-deserved encore run at the Public Theater

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Creditors: Strindberg Updated, For Better and Worse

By Frank Scheck

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

Creditors: Love, Marriage, and Maddening Mind Games

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★☆☆ Ian Rickson directs the rarely performed Strindberg work, with a refresh from playwright Jen Silverman

Goddess: A Myth-Making, Magical New Musical

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★☆ A luminous Amber Iman casts a spell in an ambitious Kenya-set show at the Public Theater

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

By Frank Scheck

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

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