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Melissa Rose Bernardo

February 13, 2025 9:57 pm

Redwood: She Talks to the Trees! (No, Really) 

Idina Menzel in Redwood

★★☆☆☆ IMAX meets Broadway in a technologically impressive but dramatically wooden new musical

February 6, 2025 10:00 pm

My First Ex-Husband: Divorce Comedian Style

My First Ex

★★☆☆☆ Joy Behar, Susie Essman, Tovah Feldshuh, and Adrienne C. Moore break down broken-down marriages in 90 lackluster minutes

February 2, 2025 7:30 pm

Pecking Order: Fowl Play Indeed

Pecking Order

★☆☆☆☆ Two infamous New York–dwelling red-tailed hawks serve as the ostensible inspiration for a flighty new comedy

January 9, 2025 4:41 pm

Blind Runner: Race for Your Life

Blind Runner

★★★★☆ Iranian playwright Amir Reza Koohestani goes behind prison walls with his evocative two-hander

December 19, 2024 11:59 pm

Gypsy: Hold Your Hats and Hallelujah

★★★★☆ Stephen Sondheim said “there’s not a moment” in this quintessential American musical “that isn’t entertaining.” We have to agree.

December 13, 2024 5:22 pm

Janine Harouni’s Man’oushe: Straight Talk From the N.Y.-Born, U.K.-Dwelling Comedian

Janine Harouni

★★★★☆ The performer brings her relatable stories and quick wit from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to Soho Playhouse

December 12, 2024 9:57 pm

Cult of Love: Leslye Headland Takes On, and Takes Down, Family and Religion

Cult of Love

★★★★☆ Nothing says Christmas like squabbling siblings, screaming matches, and folk songs with four-part harmonies.

November 18, 2024 11:30 pm

Shit. Meet. Fan.: Satire and Secrets on the Rocks

Shit Meet Fan

★★★☆☆ Seven disagreeable friends offend and overshare in Robert O’Hara’s New York–set satire

November 14, 2024 8:58 pm

King Lear: Kenneth Branagh Cuts the Tragic Tale to a Slim Two Hours

Lear and Cordelia The Shed

★★★☆☆ The Shakespeare veteran directs and stars alongside RADA grads in a no-frills production

November 12, 2024 1:58 pm

Maybe Happy Ending: A Futuristic Love Story With Old-Fashioned Heart

Helen J Shen and Darren Criss in Maybe Happy Ending

★★★★☆ This sweet but never saccharine robot romcom is the musical boost we all need

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