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Michael Sommers

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

April 16, 2025 10:00 pm

Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp: Caryl Churchill Vaudeville

★★★★☆ Deirdre O’Connell and John Ellison Conlee head a bill of diverse acts at the Public Theater

April 15, 2025 10:00 am

minor.ity: Talking ident.ity, creativ.ity, authentic.ity, commun.ity

★★★☆☆ Colt Coeur and WP Theater premiere a study of Black artists exploiting their cultural identity

April 10, 2025 10:30 pm

Smash: Marilyn, We Hardly Knew Ye

★★☆☆☆ Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman recycle their TV score for the stage

April 7, 2025 4:16 pm

I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan: Singular Theater Talk

★★★★☆ Mona Pirnot composes an Escher-like solo comedy about the very artist who is performing it

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