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Steven Suskin

March 5, 2019 9:55 pm

The Cake: Marriage, Bigotry, and Pink Lemonade Buttercream

★★★☆☆ Debra Jo Rupp scores as a bigoted baker in Bekah Brunstetter’s new play at Manhattan Theatre Club

February 20, 2019 9:50 pm

The Play That Goes Wrong: Murderous Merriment Moves to Hell(’s Kitchen)

★★★★☆ The long-running British comedy hit retains its lode of laughs as it transfers off-Broadway

February 19, 2019 8:46 pm

Merrily We Roll Along: A Glittering Jewel Revealed

★★★★★ Fiasco Theater rethinks Sondheim and Furth’s backward-through-time musical, with dazzling results

February 11, 2019 4:47 pm

The Day Before Spring: Early Lerner and Loewe, on Their Way

★★★☆☆ The York’s exhumation of an all-but-lost musical exhibits songwriters on the verge of greatness

February 7, 2019 11:05 am

Call Me Madam: Political Satire 70 Years Later, Without Ethel Merman

★★★★☆ Encores’ latest is a thorough charmer, though not quite the blockbuster it could be

January 27, 2019 8:41 pm

My Fair Lady: Benanti and Burstein Enhance the Enchantment of Lerner and Loewe Classic

★★★★★ Stellar cast replacements make this excellent production even better

January 8, 2019 9:31 pm

Choir Boy: Tarell Alvin McCraney Reaches Broadway, Finally

★★★★★ McCraney’s prep school play is rousing and intensely spiritual entertainment

December 13, 2018 8:40 pm

To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee’s Classic Makes Magnificent Theater

★★★★★ Atticus, Scout, Jem and the rest exquisitely reimagined by Aaron Sorkin and Bartlett Sher

December 10, 2018 9:45 pm

Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine: Lynn Nottage on a Comic Escapade

★★★★☆ This early play by the two-time Pulitzer-winner is a comedy lark

December 9, 2018 7:10 pm

The Jungle: Masterful, Timely, and Devastating Living Theater

★★★★★ This latest excellent UK import brings the European Refugee Crisis to our shores

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