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December 2, 2020 5:01 pm

The Prom: The Big-Hearted Broadway Musical Gets a Lavish, Loving Film

The Prom Finale

★★★★☆ ✩ As the song says: “Go big or you’ve blown it!” Director Ryan Murphy takes the lyric to heart in this sparkle-, shimmer-, and sequin-heavy adaptation.

October 22, 2020 2:02 pm

Death of a Salesman: Brian Dennehy Sells It With a Smile and a Shoeshine

Death of a Salesman

★★★★★ Don’t miss this chance to see a revelatory revival of Arthur Miller’s iconic American tragedy

September 13, 2020 10:00 am

Coastal Elites: Paul Rudnick Rages Against the Right-Wing Machine

Bette Midler in Coastal Elites

★★★☆☆ Bette Midler and Sarah Paulson star in a motley collection of made-for-liberal monologues

July 3, 2020 4:26 pm

Hamilton: $7 Gets You Front-Row Access to $10 Founding Father

Hamilton Story of Tonight

★★★★★ The smash-hit Broadway musical and pop-culture phenomenon gets a wide release

April 27, 2020 12:27 pm

Intermission Talk: Sondheim’s Starry Online 90th Birthday Concert

Raul Esparza

After a few technical difficulties, ‘Take Me to the World’ was the Sondheim celebration that theater-starved Broadway babies were waiting for

March 9, 2020 8:30 pm

Unknown Soldier: Unraveling a Century-Spanning Family Drama

Unknown Soldier

★★★☆☆ A new musical by Daniel Goldstein and the late Michael Friedman gets a handsome production at Playwrights Horizons

March 1, 2020 10:00 pm

The Hot Wing King: Katori Hall Serves Up Love and Laughs

Hot Wing King

★★★★☆ The author of ‘Hurt Village’ and ‘The Mountaintop’ spreads her wings with a serious relationship- and family-focused drama

February 25, 2020 9:50 pm

We’re Gonna Die: But First Let’s Sing

Janelle McDermoth

★★★★☆ Young Jean Lee’s show about death will send you off with a smile on your face

February 24, 2020 9:50 pm

Cambodian Rock Band: Discovering Melody and Meaning in Tragedy

Cambodian Rock Band cast

★★★★☆ Lauren Yee’s play finally gets its New York premiere and a rockin’ production at the Signature Theatre

February 20, 2020 2:20 pm

Mack & Mabel: This One’s for Jerry

Alexandra Socha

★★★★☆ Brushed off and spiffed up, the cult favorite 1974 musical finally gets the Encores! treatment

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