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Melissa Rose Bernardo

October 30, 2018 9:35 pm

Good Grief: A Middling Drama From Writer/Star Ngozi Anyanwu

Ngozi Anyanwu Ian Quinlan in Good Grief

★★☆☆☆ A Nigerian-American woman literally wrestles with grief in Ngozi Anyanwu’s disconnected drama

October 25, 2018 9:50 pm

The Waverly Gallery: Real Talk With Kenneth Lonergan

Waverly Gallery cast

★★★★☆ The inimitable Elaine May makes her long-awaited Broadway return in a revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s wonderfully unsentimental memory play

October 21, 2018 9:45 pm

The Ferryman: An Intimate, Intense Irish Epic

Cast of Ferryman

★★★★★ Jez Butterworth’s London smash arrives in New York with a massive cast, enormous buzz, a goose, and a rabbit

October 18, 2018 9:45 pm

The Lifespan of a Fact: Can You Handle the Truth?

Bobby Cannavale Daniel Radcliffe

★★★☆☆ Bobby Cannavale, Cherry Jones, and Daniel Radcliffe star in a surprisingly compelling drama about—wait for it—magazine fact-checking

October 18, 2018 9:30 pm

Gloria: A Life: Around a Campfire With Gloria Steinem

Gloria cast

★★★☆☆ Playwright Emily Mann, director Diane Paulus, and an all-female creative and production team join forces with journalist, author, and feminist icon Gloria Steinem

October 16, 2018 8:30 pm

Apologia: Stockard Channing as Mother Inferior

★★☆☆☆ A birthday dinner takes a dark turn in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s English countryside–set drama

October 14, 2018 9:39 pm

Sakina’s Restaurant: Aasif Mandvi Returns to His Roots

Aasif Mandvi in Sakinas Restaurant

★★★☆☆ Aasif Mandvi plays six characters in this 20th-anniversary revival of his Obie-winning one-man show

October 2, 2018 9:01 pm

Final Follies: Something Old, Something New From A.R. Gurney

Betsy Aidem Deborah Rush Final Follies

★★★☆☆ Primary Stages’ triptych of Gurney shorts—which includes the late playwright’s newest, “Final Follies”—comes up a bit short

September 25, 2018 9:52 pm

Bernhardt/Hamlet: What a Piece of Work

Janet McTeer in Bernhardt Hamlet

★★★★☆ Janet McTeer is divine in Theresa Rebeck’s metatheatrical ode to Sarah Bernhardt and Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane

September 23, 2018 5:45 pm

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur: Life Is No Picnic

Kristine Nielsen Jean Lichty Annette OToole in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

★★★☆☆ Kristine Nielsen and Annette O’Toole lock horns in a rare revival of an underappreciated Tennessee Williams drama

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