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Melissa Rose Bernardo

May 16, 2019 9:00 pm

Enter Laughing The Musical: Let’s Hope You Like Corn

Enter Laughing cast

★★★☆☆ The York revives its old-fashioned theater-themed hit in honor of the company’s 50th anniversary

May 13, 2019 9:50 pm

Curse of the Starving Class: A Blessing of a Revival

Maggie Siff Gilles Geary Curse of the Starving Class

★★★★☆ Director Terry Kinney finds the perfect brooding poetic despair in Sam Shepard’s late-’70s drama

April 23, 2019 9:30 pm

Tootsie: They’ve Got Big Heels to Fill

Fontana Halston Tootsie

★★★★☆ The Sydney Pollack–directed ’80s movie gets a Broadway makeover courtesy of screen-to-stage musical specialist David Yazbek

April 22, 2019 8:58 pm

The Pain of My Belligerence: Love Hurts

Feiffer Linklater Belligerence

★★★☆☆ Halley Feiffer stars in her own play about a writer battling Lyme disease and an obsessive codependent relationship

April 22, 2019 8:49 pm

All My Sons: Arthur Miller’s Still-Shattering Backyard Tragedy

Tracy Letts Annette Bening All My Sons

★★★★☆ More than 70 years after its premiere, Arthur Miller’s breakthrough drama proves as powerful (and timely) as ever

April 16, 2019 9:26 pm

Burn This: Keri Russell and Adam Driver Lack Sizzle

David Furr Keri Russell Brandon Uranowitz in Burn This

★★★☆☆ Keri Russell and Adam Driver play unlikely lovers in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s play

April 4, 2019 7:55 pm

King Lear: Glenda Jackson Rants, Raves, and Rules

JDT and Jackson in Lear

★★★☆☆ Sam Gold’s production isn’t sharper than a serpent’s tooth, but Glenda Jackson wears the crown well

March 31, 2019 7:46 pm

What the Constitution Means to Me: Heidi Schreck Gets Political, and Personal

Heidi Schreck in Constitution

★★★★★ Playwright-actress Heidi Schreck is really excited about the Constitution—and soon you will be, too

March 21, 2019 9:33 pm

Ain’t Too Proud: A Ball of Confusion

Aint too proud cast

★★☆☆☆ The music of Detroit’s legendary Temptations gets the generic Broadway jukebox treatment

March 20, 2019 9:52 pm

White Noise: Suzan-Lori Parks’ Bold and Brilliant New Drama

White Noise cast

★★★★★ Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks teams with the Public’s Oskar Eustis on an audacious new epic

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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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