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Michael Sommers

April 19, 2026 7:59 pm

Fallen Angels: Merely Amusing

★★★☆☆ Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara take summer stock of Noel Coward’s vintage comedy at Roundabout

April 14, 2026 7:00 pm

The Adding Machine: A 1920s Flashback Zeroes into Fears of a Mechanical World

★★★☆☆ Jennifer Tilly and Daphne Rubin-Vega lead The New Group’s fresh staging of an expressionist drama

April 12, 2026 10:00 pm

Titanique: What Did I Miss?

★★★☆☆ Marla Mindelle, Jim Parsons and a merry crew sail off on a little spoof about a big disaster

April 12, 2026 8:44 pm

Scorched Earth: A Dance-Theater Police Procedural

★★★☆☆ Luke Murphy directs and choreographs a modern Irish saga of murder, property and obsession

April 7, 2026 8:59 pm

Cats: The Jellicle Ball: Welcome to the Glitter Box

★★★★☆ A queer reimagining of a classic brings naughty but nice ballroom culture to Broadway

March 29, 2026 8:59 pm

Titus Andronicus: Bloody All Right

★★★☆☆ Patrick Page is formidable as a noble Roman driven mad in Red Bull’s staging of Shakespeare’s shocker

March 20, 2026 9:00 pm

Jesa: Honoring the Ancestors, or Maybe Not

★★★☆☆ Ma-Yi Theater premieres Jeena Yi’s contemporary comedy-drama about Korean American sisters

March 19, 2026 6:07 pm

The Wild Party: Midnight Special

Wild Party Jasmine

★★★★☆ Jasmine Amy Rogers, Jordan Donica, and Tonya Pinkins lead a terrific ensemble in Michael John LaChiusa’s musical of Roaring ’20s madness

March 15, 2026 7:59 pm

Ulster American: Satirical Savagery

★★★☆☆ Matthew Broderick stars as a clueless film idol in Irish Rep’s U.S. premiere of a prickly comedy

March 12, 2026 9:30 am

Antigone (this play I read in high school): Reclaiming the Heroine’s Voice

★★★★☆ The Public Theater premieres Anna Ziegler’s new version of a very old story

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