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October 7, 2019 9:22 pm

The Wrong Man: Joshua Henry Shows Conviction as Man Wrongly Accused

★★★☆☆ Pop songwriter Ross Golan tries his hand at a sung-through musical, directed by Thomas Kail

October 2, 2019 9:41 pm

Freestyle Love Supreme: High-Flying Improv at the Booth

★★★★☆ Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail successfully bring a new-style event to Broadway

September 24, 2019 9:46 pm

The Height of the Storm: Provocative Play Offers Master Class in Acting

★★★★☆ Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins star in Florian Zeller’s newest Paris-to-London-to-New York offering

September 15, 2019 8:41 pm

Derren Brown, Secret: Legerdemain Unleashed at Cort

★★★★☆ UK illusionist offers evening of protean prestidigitation and purely astonishing fun

September 9, 2019 1:45 pm

Eureka Day: Jonathan Spector’s Cyclonically Funny Outrageous New Comedy

★★★★★ The invasion of the anti-vaxxers, from—where else?—Berkeley

September 5, 2019 8:15 pm

Betrayal: Pinter’s Web of Deception Returns to Broadway, Incisively

★★★★☆ Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox, and Zawe Ashton star in Jamie Lloyd’s London transfer

August 9, 2019 3:11 pm

I Happen to Like New York: Michael Feinstein’s Effervescent Musical Salute to the City

Marilyn Maye and Michael Feinstein in I Happen to Like New York. Photo: Stephen Sorokoff

★★★★☆ A charming summer divertissement for American Songbook lovers at the singer’s 54th Street home base

July 25, 2019 1:49 pm

Road Show: Sondheim’s Road Trip Musical Finally Lands

★★★★☆ The Sondheim-Weidman musical demonstrates new life at Encores! with Raúl Esparza and Brandon Uranowitz leading the way

July 11, 2019 12:54 pm

Promenade: Musical Whatnot Charms After 50 Years, Intermittently

★★★☆☆ Encores! Off-Center spotlights composer Al Carmines in this fascinatingly absurdist musical

July 2, 2019 12:00 pm

From London: An Exceptional Death of a Salesman and a Haunting Hunt

Wendell Pierce and Sharon D. Clarke shine in the Arthur Miller classic at the Young Vic; the Almeida brings us a haunting new play

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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

creation stories and all the important importants: A Magical Drama About a Wanna-Be Mama

By Michael Sommers

★★★☆☆ LCT3 produces Mfoniso Udofia’s maximalist study of an exceptional woman in crisis

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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

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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