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Melissa Rose Bernardo

June 25, 2025 6:59 pm

Trophy Boys: Skewering, Indicting, and Side-Eyeing Male Privilege

Cast of Trophy Boys

★★★★☆ Australian playwright Emmanuelle Mattana puts the patriarchy through its paces in a 70-minute play

June 24, 2025 9:00 pm

Duke & Roya: Finding Love in a Hopeless Place

Duke and Roya

★★★☆☆ Jay Ellis and Stephanie Nur are perfectly cast in Charles Randolph-Wright’s romantic drama

May 21, 2025 7:03 pm

Creditors: Love, Marriage, and Maddening Mind Games

Creditors

★★★☆☆ Ian Rickson directs the rarely performed Strindberg work, with a refresh from playwright Jen Silverman

May 20, 2025 9:30 pm

Goddess: A Myth-Making, Magical New Musical

Goddess

★★★★☆ A luminous Amber Iman casts a spell in an ambitious Kenya-set show at the Public Theater

May 8, 2025 9:00 pm

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes: Let’s Hear It From the Boy

Ella Beatty and Hugh Jackman in Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes

★★★★☆ Hugh Jackman plays a professor entangled with a student in Hannah Moscovitch’s 90-minute drama

April 27, 2025 9:29 pm

Real Women Have Curves: Latina Stories Take Center Stage  

company of Real Women Have Curves

★★★★☆ Josefina López’s decades-old play turned movie turned musical resonates with audiences anew

April 26, 2025 10:00 pm

Just in Time: Hello, Bobby! Darin Gets a Splashy Broadway Tribute

Just in Time Christine Jonathan Julia

★★★★☆ Jonathan Groff gives a once-in-a-lifetime performance as the Grammy-winning “Beyond the Sea” singer

April 23, 2025 8:30 pm

Hold Me in the Water: An Intimate Boy-Meets-Boy Story

Hold Me Ryan J Haddad

★★★★☆ Ryan J. Haddad shares a tale of summer love in his autobiographical 70-minute one-man show

April 14, 2025 11:00 pm

John Proctor Is the Villain: A Fearless Gen Z Look at ‘The Crucible’

John Proctor Is the Villain cast

★★★★★ Director Danya Taymor and a dynamite cast bring Kimberly Belflower’s marvelous new play to Broadway

March 18, 2025 9:00 pm

Vanya: One Man, Nine Characters, Considerable Tragicomedy

Andrew Scott Vanya

★★★★☆ Andrew Scott takes on every role in Simon Stephens’ freewheeling adaptation of Chekhov’s much-produced play

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The Winter’s Tale: Shakespeare’s Romance Right for Summer

By David Finkle

★★★★★ Daniel Sullivan directs with his standard skill, Raúl Esparza, Lily Rabe head superb cast

An American Daughter: Wendy Wasserstein’s Play Shows Its Age

By Frank Scheck

★★★☆☆ Jean Lichty plays the title role in this unevenly acted revival also featuring Montego Glover and Robert Sean Leonard

An American Daughter: Wendy Wasserstein Revival Falters

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★★☆☆☆ The swift-tongued playwright takes on a flawed powerful woman, Sarna Lapine directs

Casey Likes: Back to the Past, as a Young’un Remembers It

By Elysa Gardner

The rising Broadway star traces his young life and career through music, with nods to classic rock, Alan Menken, and the Jonas Brothers

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★★★★☆ Replacing Jonathan Groff, the Broadway veteran delivers a stellar turn in the musical that merits a repeat viewing.

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Melanie Moore in Black Swan. Photo by Hawver and Hall

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★★★★☆ Classy musicalization of a psychosexual cinethriller uses human and technical legerdemain to spellbind

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