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Michael Sommers

October 28, 2018 8:00 pm

Big Apple Circus: A Lean, Keen, Family Show (and More) to its Core

The Duo Fusion act in this Year's Big Apple Circus. Photo: Juliana Crawford

★★★★☆ Kids will get a kick out of the 41st edition while their elders will see some nice sights, too

October 28, 2018 7:30 pm

Daniel’s Husband: A New Drama Cautions Same-Sex Couples to Tie the Knot

Matthew Montelongo, Ryan Spahn and Anna Holbrook play leading characters in Daniel's Husband. Photo: Carol Rosegg

★★★☆☆ Good acting breathes life into a comedy that unexpectedly turns sorrowful

October 24, 2018 11:38 pm

Come From Away: Get a Gander at Strangers Being Kind to Each Other

★★★★★ Long-Run Lookback: An expertly staged docu-musical remains a truly heartwarming experience

October 11, 2018 7:01 pm

Midnight at the Never Get: A Moody Cabaret About the Man That Got Away

Jeremy Cohen and Sam Bolen perform in Midnight at the Never Get. Photo: Carol Rosegg

★★★☆☆ A gay romance from the 1960s glimmers within a little musical bubble

October 8, 2018 9:00 pm

The Winning Side: What’s Love Got to Do With Wernher Von Braun?

Melissa Friedman, Devin E. Haqq, Sullivan Jones and Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. play a scene in The Winning Side. Photo: Carol Rosegg

★★☆☆☆ A mash-up of fact and fiction shows that writing plays can be harder than rocket science

October 4, 2018 2:30 pm

The Bacchae: Euripides’ Classical Tragicomedy of Wine, Women, and Wrong

Ellen Lauren portrays Dionysus in The Bacchae. Photo: Stephanie Berger

★★★☆☆ Anne Bogart stages a 2,400 year-old Greek drama with a few modern notes

October 2, 2018 9:00 pm

Final Follies: Primary Stages Trips Over a Trio of A.R. Gurney Comedies

Betsy Aidem and Piter Marek teach The Love Course in Final Follies. Photo: James Leynse

★★☆☆☆ Able staging and acting can do only so much with a master author’s minor material

October 1, 2018 9:44 pm

Girl From the North Country: A Visit to Desolation Row With Bob Dylan

A scene from Girl From the North Country staged at the Public Theater. Photo: Joan Marcus

★★★★☆ Bob Dylan songs are artfully molded into a new musical of melancholy distinction

September 24, 2018 9:00 pm

I Was Most Alive with You: Craig Lucas Unleashes a Tsunami of Sorrows

A scene from I Was Most Alive with You at Playwrights Horizons. Photo: Joan Marcus

★★☆☆☆ A woeful drama (in more ways than one) is performed simultaneously in two languages

September 20, 2018 4:30 pm

Beautiful: That Carole King Bio-Show Stays Good to Go and See

Some Beautiful scenes unfold in a '60s pop music song factory. Photo: Joan Marcus

★★★★☆ Long-Run Lookback: A smart jukebox musical remains a some kind of wonderful Broadway attraction

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Kramer/Fauci: Friendly Adversaries Tangle Over AIDS Progress

By David Finkle

★★★★☆ Highly resourceful conceiver-director Daniel Fish gets theatrical again

Slam Frank: An Equal Opportunity Offender

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★☆☆ The Jewish teen author/Holocaust victim gets an audacious 21st-century musical glow-up

The Hairy Ape: The First Zoo Story

By Michael Sommers

★★★☆☆ Jon Beavers depicts a primitive man lost in the civilized world in Irish Rep’s revival of an early O’Neill classic

The Hairy Ape: Hairier Would Be Scarier

By David Finkle

★★★☆☆ Ciarán O'Reilly directs the revival, Jon Beavers is the supposedly gorilla-like protagonist

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Just in Time: Jeremy Jordan Will Be Your Bobby Darin From Now On

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

The Saviors: What Would Jesus Do?

★★★★☆ Writer Bubba Weiler and director Jack Serio offer a tender drama of faith and friendship

Giulia The Poison Queen of Palermo: Pure Theatrical Alchemy

★★★★★ Death really does become her, as the writer, composer and star - Jennifer Nettles - serves up a killer new musical.

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Birthright: Six Characters in Search of a Common Ground

★★★★☆ Politics underscore but don’t overpower the character-driven epic from Jonathan Spector

Melanie Moore in Black Swan. Photo by Hawver and Hall

From Cambridge, MA: Black Swan, Tu-Tu Thrilling

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

Death of a Salesman: More Relevant Than Ever

★★★★★ Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf and Christopher Abbott star in Joe Mantello's emotionally searing revival.

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