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Melissa Rose Bernardo

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

March 11, 2025 9:59 pm

A Streetcar Named Desire: A Healthy Shot of Southern Discomfort

Paul Mescal and Anjana Vasan in A Streetcar Named Desire

★★★★☆ You want realism? You want magic? Rebecca Frecknall’s production, starring Paul Mescal, has both.

March 6, 2025 8:30 pm

Deep Blue Sound: A Whale of a Tale

Deep Blue Sound

★★★★★ Clubbed Thumb’s production of the poignant Abe Koogler play returns for a much-deserved encore run at the Public Theater

February 27, 2025 9:15 pm

Dakar 2000: International Intrigue, Y2K Style

Abubakr Ali and Mia Barron in Dakar 2000

★★★★☆ We’re already eagerly awaiting the sequel to Rajiv Joseph’s world premiere play

February 20, 2025 9:59 pm

Liberation: We’ve Come So Far…Or Have We?

Liberation

★★★★☆ Whitney White directs a sensational group of women in Bess Wohl’s time-traveling memory play

February 13, 2025 9:57 pm

Redwood: She Talks to the Trees! (No, Really) 

Idina Menzel in Redwood

★★☆☆☆ IMAX meets Broadway in a technologically impressive but dramatically wooden new musical

February 6, 2025 10:00 pm

My First Ex-Husband: Divorce Comedian Style

My First Ex

★★☆☆☆ Joy Behar, Susie Essman, Tovah Feldshuh, and Adrienne C. Moore break down broken-down marriages in 90 lackluster minutes

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