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Melissa Rose Bernardo

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

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

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

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