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Steven Suskin

November 23, 2025 12:33 pm

Sweet Smell of Success: Hamlisch Musical Returns, with Improvements

★★★☆☆ Concert version suggests a potential future for the all-but-forgotten Hamlisch-Carnelia-Guare musical

November 12, 2025 3:30 pm

Rob Lake Magic: Shattered Illusions

★★☆☆☆ Even Miss Piggy can’t elevate this generic holiday-season magic show

November 11, 2025 8:59 pm

The Baker’s Wife: Fabled Flop Charms in Amiable Revival

★★★☆☆ Scott Bakula, Adriana DeBose, and Judy Kuhn enhance Stephen Schwartz’s underbaked musical

October 18, 2025 12:13 pm

Adam Gopnik’s New York: Gallery Talk, Par Excellence

★★★★☆ The New Yorker writer offers an enchanted evening of sparklingly witty discourse

September 8, 2025 3:02 pm

This Is Government: Contemporary Comedy about Workplace Lockdown

★★★☆☆ Nina Kissinger mines comedy from a congressional bomb threat, but doesn’t quite pull it off

August 21, 2025 9:59 pm

Twelfth Night: Moonlit Enchantment As Shakespeare Returns to the Park

★★★★☆ Lupito Nyong’o, Sandra Oh and Peter Dinklage spark director Saheem Ali’s contemporary take on the Bard’s comedy

June 4, 2025 9:00 pm

Pride & Prejudice: Austen Sparkles in 3-Person Capsule Version

★★★★☆ A breezy romp with Lizzy Bennet, Mr. Darcy, et al.

May 1, 2025 1:28 pm

Wonderful Town: Bernstein-Comden-Green Musical in Not So Wonderful Revival

★★☆☆☆ The durably entertaining musical comedy falls flat, this time, at Encores

April 27, 2025 9:34 pm

Dead Outlaw: Rip-Roarin’ Musical Hits the Bull’s-Eye

★★★★★ David Yazbek’s brashly macabre tuner features Andrew Durand as a real-life desperado, wanted dead and alive

April 8, 2025 9:00 pm

Sondheim’s Old Friends: Musical Cornucopia Makes an Overstuffed Banquet

★★★☆☆ Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga headline Cameron Mackintosh’s memorial salute to the songwriter

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