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April 24, 2023 8:55 pm

Good Night, Oscar: Sean Hayes Displays Dual Talents in Masterful Performance

★★★★★ The Will & Grace star portrays real life comedian and musical virtuoso Oscar Levant, in a role Hayes was born to play.

April 12, 2023 8:54 pm

Fat Ham: Pulitzer Prize Winner Makes for a Savory Dish on Broadway

★★★★★ An inspired adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as seen through a modern lens.

March 30, 2023 9:53 pm

Life of Pi: Play Delivers Stunning Stagecraft to Die For

★★★★☆ A terrific stage adaptation of the best selling novel ingeniously fleshes out humans and animals alike.

March 2, 2023 8:10 pm

Disney’s Hercules: Olympian Musical Takes the Stage, at Paper Mill

★★★☆☆ Lear deBessonet directs the Alan Menken-David Zippel musical featuring Bradley Gibson, James Monroe Iglehart, Shuler Hensley and Isabelle McCalla

April 6, 2021 8:51 pm

Blindness: Chilling Dystopian Drama Marks Return of Off-Broadway

Blindness. Credit: Roma Torre

★★★★☆ Harrowing story theater featuring high tech sound system simulating a pandemic of a different sort

March 2, 2021 2:46 pm

Julius Caesar: Patrick Page as Dictator Facing Ides of March

★★★★☆ Timely radio version resonates in today’s fractured politics

February 6, 2021 7:42 pm

All The Devils Are Here: Patrick Page Takes On Shakespeare’s Villains

★★★★★ A tour de force in which the acclaimed actor provides fascinating insights while enacting the Bard’s villains, even Lady Macbeth

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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.

A Walk on the Moon: A Musical Tribute to Enduring Marriage Vows

By David Finkle

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

From Massachusetts: The Zionists, A Family Storm (And The World’s)

By Bob Verini

★★★☆☆ Amidst a hurricane, a Jewish family hashes out Israel and Palestine, solving little but revealing plenty

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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

Well, I’ll Let You Go: Coping with Grief, Magnificently

★★★★★ Quincy Tyler Bernstine gives a whirlwind performance in a stunning new play by Bubba Weiler

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone: Revival of Wilson’s Drama About “Finding Your Song” Mostly Sings

★★★★☆ Cedric the Entertainer and Taraji P. Henson star in Debbie Allen's revival of August Wilson's modern classic.

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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★★★★★ You’ll be feline good after this ultra-glam Broadway-meets-ballroom production

Giant: Antisemitism Laid Bare

★★★★☆ John Lithgow plays famed author Roald Dahl in Mark Rosenblatt’s play directed by Nicholas Hytner

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