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Melissa Rose Bernardo

June 23, 2022 7:00 pm

Chains: Brit Playwright Elizabeth Baker, in Mint Condition

McHardy Beck Whitted Townsend in Chains

★★★★☆ A 113-year-old British drama proves to be an ideal pandemic-era production

June 22, 2022 9:30 pm

Corsicana: Will Arbery in a Lone Star State of Mind

Jamie Brewer in Corsicana

★★★☆☆ Everything’s bigger in Texas, including this protracted four-character play

May 26, 2022 10:00 pm

Fat Ham: A Nontragic Take on Shakespeare’s Most Popular Tragedy

Marcel Spears in Fat Ham

★★★★★ Newly minted Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames turns the revenge play on its proverbial ear

May 10, 2022 8:00 pm

Which Way to the Stage: A Witty Love Letter to the Theater

Which Way to the Stage

★★★★☆ Diva worship, drag queens, and Sondheim duets collide in Ana Nogueira’s stagestruck comedy

May 9, 2022 9:00 pm

Oh God, A Show About Abortion: Alison Leiby Brings the Funny (Yes, Really!)

Alison Leiby

★★★★☆ Lila Neugebauer directs a one-woman show on the hottest of the hot-button issues of the moment

April 29, 2022 3:55 pm

Macbeth: Have You Heard the One About the Scottish Play?

Macbeth cast

★★☆☆☆ Sam Gold’s star-studded production of Shakespeare’s witchiest play is beset by toil and trouble

April 25, 2022 9:53 pm

The Skin of Our Teeth: It’s So Extra

LCT The Skin of our Teeth

★★★★☆ Thornton Wilder’s epic receives a suitably over-the-top production at Lincoln Center Theater

April 21, 2022 9:24 pm

Hangmen: Martin McDonagh’s Slick Comedy Finally Arrives on Broadway

Cast of HANGMEN

★★★★☆ A new staging of the dark comedy from a playwright once dubbed theater’s Quentin Tarantino goes for laughs over gore  

April 17, 2022 9:54 pm

The Minutes: So Much Promise, So Little Payoff

The Minutes Tracy Letts Noah Reid

★★☆☆☆ Tracy Letts’ new play is part satire, part black comedy, and all head-scratcher

April 14, 2022 9:00 pm

Cyrano de Bergerac: James McAvoy As a Swoon-Worthy Swashbuckling Poet

James McAvoy Evelyn Miller Eben Figueiredo

★★★★★ The Jamie Lloyd Company reinvents Rostand’s nosey Frenchman for the 21st century

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Birthright: Six Characters in Search of a Common Ground

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★☆ Politics underscore but don’t overpower the character-driven epic from Jonathan Spector

Birthright: Political and Personal Issues Intersect to Powerful Effect

By Frank Scheck

★★★★☆ The new play by Jonathan Spector ("Eureka Day") depicts the reunions over two decades of a group of friends who met on a Birthright trip to Israel.

A Walk on the Moon: A Musical Tribute to Enduring Marriage Vows

By David Finkle

★★★☆☆ Pamela Gray adapts her 1999 film, Annmarie Milazzo adds the tuneful score

From Massachusetts: The Zionists, A Family Storm (And The World’s)

By Bob Verini

★★★☆☆ Amidst a hurricane, a Jewish family hashes out Israel and Palestine, solving little but revealing plenty

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