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Melissa Rose Bernardo

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

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

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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

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By Bob Verini

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

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