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Steven Suskin

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

April 6, 2025 10:59 pm

The Last Five Years: Stuck on the Seesaw

★★★☆☆ Ineffective choices weigh down Jason Robert Brown’s charming chamber musical

March 27, 2025 3:40 pm

Love Life: Lost Lerner/Weill Musical Demonstrates Why It Was Lost

★★★☆☆ Kate Baldwin and Brian Stokes Mitchell star in the latest from Encores

March 19, 2025 8:58 pm

We Had a World: ‘Virginia Woolf, Part 2,’ With Jokes

★★★★★ Playwright Joshua Harmon explores and explodes his roots, with Andrew Barth Feldman and Joanna Gleason

March 6, 2025 8:29 pm

Deep Blue Sound: A Quiet, Gentle, Whale of a Play

★★★★☆ Maryann Plunkett and an excellent cast spark a return engagement of Abe Koogler’s play

February 24, 2025 8:58 pm

Grangeville: Art, Anguish, and Wonder from Samuel D. Hunter

★★★★★ An exceptional play with fine work from director Jack Serio and actors Brian J. Smith and Paul Sparks

February 2, 2025 7:31 pm

Pecking Order: Fowl Play Is Foul Play

★☆☆☆☆ Hawkish comedy is strictly for the birds

January 27, 2025 5:39 pm

Dear Jack, Dear Louise: WWII Love Letters, with Wit and Charm

★★★★☆ Playwright Ken Ludwig finds literary delight in the family attic

December 19, 2024 11:58 pm

Gypsy: Everything’s Coming Up Audra

★★★★☆ New production of fabled masterwork lights the lights and hits the heights

November 26, 2024 7:59 pm

The Dead, 1904: James Joyce and The Living, 2024

★★★★☆ A Dubliner’s midwinter’s night dream, on upper Fifth Avenue  

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