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Steven Suskin

September 25, 2024 4:33 pm

Maria Friedman, Legacy: Sondheim Specialist Returns with (another) Masterful Salute

The director of the recent “Merrily We Roll Along” is back in town, singing Sondheim at Café Carlyle

September 23, 2024 6:58 pm

Blood of the Lamb: No Exit in Texas, Ripped from the Headlines

★★★★☆ Meredith Garretson and Kelly McAndrew battle it out in Arlene Hutton’s powerful new play  

August 12, 2024 9:56 pm

Once Upon a Mattress: Sutton Foster-of-the-Swamps Reigns Triumphant

★★★★☆ Another Encores! musical comedy winner takes up residence on Broadway

June 20, 2024 8:00 pm

Appraisal: Jousting Over the Office Desk, with Laughs

★★★★☆ Tim Marriott’s deft one-act is well played by the author and Alex Sunderhaus

June 12, 2024 12:21 pm

Titanic: Smooth Sailing as the Band Plays On

★★★★☆ Maury Yeston’s remarkable score is given a ravishing hearing at Encores

May 13, 2024 8:57 pm

Laura Benanti, Nobody Cares: Let Me Entertain You, and How!

★★★★☆ The beloved Tony-winner celebrates adulthood, motherhood, and stepping out of the ingenue shell

April 25, 2024 9:25 pm

Mother Play: Evicting Not-So-Dear Old Mom, with Martinis

★★★★☆ Celia Keenan-Bolger, Jessica Lange, and Jim Parsons star as Paula Vogel’s struggling family

April 18, 2024 9:25 pm

Suffs: Shaina Taub Wins By a Landslide

★★★★★ Nikki M. James, Grace McLean, Jenn Colella, Emily Skinner, and an exceptional cast spark this new musical about the battle for equal voting rights in America, circa 1915

March 14, 2024 8:55 pm

The Notebook: Just Another Love Story, with Kleenex

★★★☆☆ Six actors play the two leading characters in this atmospheric musical based on the popular Nicholas Sparks novel

March 14, 2024 7:59 pm

Ibsen’s Ghost: A Widow’s Revenge, or Beating Around the Busch

★★☆☆☆ A promising comedic idea leaves this viewer disenchantedly unengaged

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