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Michael Sommers

April 4, 2025 10:01 am

Danger and Opportunity:  Up Close and Personal with a Polyamorous Trio

★★★☆☆ Juan Castano, Ryan Spahn and Julia Chan comprise a troubled throuple

March 27, 2025 9:57 pm

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Sarah Snook Slays with Multiple Selfies and Multimedia Screens

★★★☆☆ Oscar Wilde’s tale is distilled as a succession of images reflecting a beauty with a beastly ego

March 24, 2025 8:01 pm

Wine in the Wilderness: Alice Childress Reads the Black Bougie Gaze

★★★☆☆ LaChanze stages a sharp vintage study of sex and class in mid-1960s Harlem

March 20, 2025 9:57 pm

Operation Mincemeat: A Comical Slice of World War II Lore

★★★★☆ A screwball musical from London rolls onto Broadway

March 19, 2025 9:57 pm

Buena Vista Social Club: How to Make Beautiful Music in Havana

★★★★☆ Vintage Afro-Cuban songs pack a unique new jukebox musical

March 18, 2025 8:59 pm

Vanya: Andrew Scott Goes Virtuoso in a Solo Show

★★★★☆ Expect no Russian dressing but plenty of Irish accents in this Chekhov adaptation

March 11, 2025 4:29 pm

The Jonathan Larson Project: Seasoned with Love

★★★☆☆ Unknown tunes from a songwriter’s trunk get nicely noted

March 10, 2025 8:56 pm

The Great Privation: Black Family History Lost and Found

★★☆☆☆ Mothers and daughters then and now dig around a family tree

March 5, 2025 9:30 pm

SUMO: Wrestling with Higher Desires

★★★☆☆ Lisa Sanye Dring’s new drama studies Japan’s national sport

March 5, 2025 6:30 pm

Sugarcraft: A Scoop of Culinary History Spoiled by the Serving

★☆☆☆☆ Julia Child’s 18th-century spiritual ancestor gets a raw deal at 59E59

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