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November 17, 2024 7:56 pm

Elf: Irrepressible Holiday Hijinks, for Adults and Kids Too

★★★★☆ Affably goofy Grey Henson shines in revival of endearing screen-to-stage musical

November 17, 2024 5:00 pm

The Light and the Dark: Scandal in Chiaroscuro, For Today

★★★★☆ Playwright Kate Hamill offers a vibrant picture of the turbulent life and times of painter Aremisia Gentileschi

November 14, 2024 10:56 pm

Tammy Faye: Praise the Lord and Pump Up the Video

★★☆☆☆ Evangelical sex scandal with sequins fizzles, from Elton John and friends

October 31, 2024 9:46 am

Strike Up the Band: Gershwin Goes to Carnegie Hall

The not-quite-classic musical in a not-quite-effective concert version, despite fine musical elements led by Ted Sperling, with Bryce Pinkham, Christopher Fitzgerald, John Ellison Conlee, and Victoria Clark

October 10, 2024 10:58 pm

Our Town: Thornton Wilder’s Classic in Functional (but Less Than Gripping) Revival

★★★☆☆ Jim Parsons, Richard Thomas, Zoey Deutch and more in director Kenny Leon’s new production

October 9, 2024 9:00 pm

The Counter: High-Octane Drama, Powered by Chock Full o’Nuts

★★★★☆ Anthony Edwards and Susannah Flood in Meghan Kennedy’s forceful new play, directed by David Cromer

September 26, 2024 9:01 pm

Fatherland: Family Values, Insurrection-Style

★★☆☆☆ Unconvincing docudrama drawn from the January 6 riot

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

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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

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★★★☆☆ Ciarán O'Reilly directs the revival, Jon Beavers is the supposedly gorilla-like protagonist

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

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