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January 18, 2024 9:00 pm

Our Class: Harrowing History Lessons From the Polish Front

★★★☆☆ BAM hosts a chilling drama based on the tragic story of a town in Poland that turned on its Jewish neighbors

January 9, 2024 9:54 pm

Prayer For The French Republic: Judaism takes centerstage in Joshua Harmon’s engrossing drama

★★★★☆ MTC’s excellent production explores anti-semitism with gravity, wit and heart.

December 17, 2023 6:26 pm

The Night Of The Iguana: Tennessee Williams’ Last Great Play Shines in Starry Revival

★★★★☆ Tim Daly, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Austin Pendleton lead La Femme Theatre’s production of the classic drama with impressive flair

November 14, 2023 8:01 am

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea: John Patrick Shanley’s 1983 drama revived swimmingly

★★★★☆ Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott gamely duke it out Off Broadway in the 1983 two hander at the Lucille Lortel Theatre

November 1, 2023 9:29 pm

Poor Yella Rednecks: A RIchly Colorful Comedy with an Asian Accent

★★★★☆ The refugee family from Vietgone returns to Manhattan Theatre Club with new adventures, more rap music and their kick-ass puppet son

October 27, 2023 10:09 am

Emergence: A Mind-Blowing Feast for the Senses

Patrick Olson and company in Emergence. Photo by Russ Rowland

★★★★☆ Science geek and composer Patrick Olson takes us on a musical journey through space and time

October 24, 2023 2:02 pm

The Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald’s Classic, Impressively Staged, Once Again Defies Translation

Jeremy Eva Samantha in Great Gatsby

★★★☆☆ Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada star in Paper Mill Playhouse’s Broadway-aimed musical

October 19, 2023 7:00 pm

Partnership: A Century-Old Play for Our Time

Partnership Gillette Haider and Echebiri

★★★★☆ The Mint Theater unearths another winner by a forgotten writer, Elizabeth Baker

October 12, 2023 9:57 pm

Gutenberg! The Musical!: Revisionist History of the Hysterical Kind

★★★★★ “Book of Mormon’s” Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells reunite for a gay old time

April 26, 2023 9:52 pm

New York, New York: The New Musical Can’t Quite Make It Here

★★☆☆☆ Despite its A-list creative team, the splashy stage version of the 1977 film disappointingly falls flat. 

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Birthright: Six Characters in Search of a Common Ground

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

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

Birthright: Political and Personal Issues Intersect to Powerful Effect

By Frank Scheck

★★★★☆ The new play by Jonathan Spector ("Eureka Day") depicts the reunions over two decades of a group of friends who met on a Birthright trip to Israel.

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★★★☆☆ Pamela Gray adapts her 1999 film, Annmarie Milazzo adds the tuneful score

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