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Melissa Rose Bernardo

September 20, 2018 9:00 pm

The True: The Dirty Business of Party Politics

John Pankow Edie Falco in The True

★★★☆☆ Edie Falco stars as the rumor-besieged woman behind the man in Sharr White’s 1977-set political play

September 20, 2018 4:30 pm

Beautiful: Some Kind of Wonderful Show

Abby Mueller in Beautiful

★★★★☆ Long-Run Lookback: Abby Mueller shows the world all the love in her heart as Broadway’s current Carole King in the long-running biomusical

September 16, 2018 10:01 pm

Uncle Vanya: Richard Nelson Goes to Russia

Jesse Pennington Jay O Sanders Uncle Vanya

★★★★☆ Richard Nelson brings his signature understated style to Chekhov’s tragicomedy in this debut from the Hunter Theater Project

September 12, 2018 10:03 pm

Collective Rage: All Betties, All the Time

Ana Villafane and Lea DeLaria in Collective Rage

★★★☆☆ Jen Silverman’s characters are smart, sharp-tongued, and far from stereotypical. Try to keep up.

September 7, 2018 7:27 am

Private Peaceful: One Soldier’s Story, in Multiple Voices

Shane ORegan in Private Peaceful

★★★★☆ Another World War I–era novel from ‘War Horse’ author Michael Morpurgo gets the theatrical treatment

August 26, 2018 7:00 pm

Days to Come: Less-Than-Mint-Condition Hellman

Days to Come at Mint Theater

★★☆☆☆ The Mint Theater digs up Lillian Hellman’s long-forgotten, failed 1936 drama

August 23, 2018 4:37 pm

Henry VI: Stop and Smell the War of the Roses

NAATCO Henry VI

★★★★☆ The National Asian American Theatre Company condenses Shakespeare’s three Henry VI plays into a two-part, five-and-a-half-hour experience

August 13, 2018 9:30 pm

Gettin’ the Band Back Together: Déjà Vu All Over Again

Brandon Williams in Gettin the Band Back Together

★★☆☆☆ The groans drown out the laughs at this totally unoriginal original musical

July 26, 2018 9:31 pm

Head Over Heels: The Beat Goes On

Head Over Heels ensemble

★★★★☆ Mad about the Go-Go’s? Get up and go to the Elizabethan-set musical packed with their hook-heavy hits.

July 23, 2018 9:50 pm

Straight White Men: Check Their Privilege!

Kate Bornstein Armie Hammer Ty Defoe in Straight White Men

★★★☆☆ Young Jean Lee makes her Broadway debut with a Christmas-set family drama starring Josh Charles and Armie Hammer as backslapping bros

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