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Steven Suskin

April 6, 2022 10:25 pm

Suffs: New Musical Wins by a Landslide

★★★★★ Shaina Taub writes and stars in an exciting new musical saluting a band of forgotten but exceptional American heroes

March 24, 2022 3:42 pm

To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim

A personal salute to the Master, exceptionally performed

March 21, 2022 8:58 pm

At the Wedding: Of Canapés and Cannibals

★★★★☆ Nuptials upended by hilarity in Bryn Turner play at Lincoln Center Theater

March 11, 2022 10:23 am

Anyone Can Whistle: Famously Troubled Musical, Flaws Magnified

★★★☆☆ Santino Fontana and Elizabeth Stanley shine in an under-rehearsed semi-staging of the Sondheim-Laurents not-quite-masterwork

February 22, 2022 7:00 pm

The Daughter-in-Law: Sons and Lovers and Clinging Mums

★★★☆☆ The Mint returns with D.H. Lawrence’s posthumously unearthed “problem play”

February 3, 2022 12:46 pm

The Tap Dance Kid: A Boy and His Tap Shoes

★★★☆☆ Fabulous Feet, and a lot of them, at City Center

November 23, 2021 9:51 pm

Clyde’s: Zestfully Tasty New Play from Lynn Nottage, with Cilantro and Dill

★★★★☆ Tasty new play features strong cast conjuring fantastically metaphoric sandwiches

November 14, 2021 7:50 pm

Baby: Charm-filled Maltby-Shire Musical Makes a Welcome Return

★★★☆☆ Out of the Box Theatrics offers a diverse and inclusive redraft of the 1983 parenthood musical

October 27, 2021 8:49 pm

Caroline, or Change: Sharon D Clarke Offers a Bracing Performance in Tesori-Kushner Musical

★★★★☆ UK-originated revival demonstrates the power and scope of 2004 chamber musical

October 17, 2021 8:50 pm

American Utopia: David Byrne and His Merry Band Lift Us Back to Our Feet

★★★★★ Byrne, choreographer Annie-B Parsons, and musicians set St. James rocking

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