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Michael Sommers

June 16, 2025 8:00 am

Passengers: A Classy Party of Tip-Top Cirque-Style Artists Take the Train Downtown  

The company of Passengers. Photo: Alexandre Galliez

★★★★☆ Montreal’s 7 Fingers physical theater troupe visits PAC NYC in lower Manhattan

June 12, 2025 9:01 pm

Prosperous Fools: Taylor Mac Attacks, Unpersuasively

Sierra Boggess as ####-###, Jason O’Connell as $#@%$. Photo: Travis Emery Hackett

★★☆☆☆ A grant-winning genius bites the philanthropic hands that feed him

June 12, 2025 12:01 am

Angry Alan: John Krasinski Swallows the Red Pill

★★★★☆ Director Sam Gold’s staging exhibits a nice American guy going wrong

June 5, 2025 7:00 pm

The Wash: Airing a Ripe Slice of American History

★★★☆☆ New Federal Theatre delivers a drama about the 1881 Atlanta washerwomen’s strike

June 4, 2025 1:46 pm

A Freeky Introduction: Divine Wisdom for Being Your Best Sexy Self

DJ Monday Blue and NSangou Njikam in A Freeky Introduction.

★★★☆☆ NSangou Njikam’s show sees a Yoruban deity preach positivity in a string of stories

May 13, 2025 7:10 pm

The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse: Skanks for the Y2K memories

★★★☆☆ Gen Z vloggers seek clicks and a missing chick in a mixed-up new musical

May 5, 2025 9:00 pm

Five Models in Ruins, 1981: Dressed for Excess

★★☆☆☆ Elizabeth Marvel shoots a gallery of swans in lovely circumstances

April 27, 2025 9:32 pm

Dead Outlaw: Macabre, Morbid, and Wickedly Smart

★★★★☆ David Yazbek and Itamar Moses craft a rowdy tuner about a surprisingly lively corpse

April 24, 2025 9:59 pm

Pirates! The Penzance Musical: Bright and Breezy in the Big Easy

★★★★☆ David Hyde Pierce, Jinkx Monsoon and Ramin Karimloo sail away in a Gilbert & Sullivan showboat

April 21, 2025 10:00 pm

Floyd Collins: Jeremy Jordan goes deep as a forgotten headliner from 1925

★★★★☆ Taylor Trensch, Jason Gotay, and Lizzie McAlpine are notable in LCT’s revival of a sorrowful musical drama

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