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October 16, 2023 7:30 pm

All the Devils Are Here: The Very Best of the Bard’s Worst

All the Devils Are Here

★★★★★ Patrick Page was born to be bad in this one-man salute to Shakespeare’s evildoers

October 12, 2023 2:26 pm

The Refuge Plays: A Next-Generational Epic

Refuge Plays

★★★☆☆ The sweeping Roundabout Theatre/New York Theatre Workshop co-production covers 70 years, three plays, and three ghosts

October 10, 2023 7:57 am

Merrily We Roll Along: Feel the Flow, Hear What’s Happening

Merrily We Roll Along Old Friends

★★★★★ More than 40 years after its debut, the infamous Sondheim-Furth flop gets Broadway redemption

October 3, 2023 8:56 pm

Jaja’s African Hair Braiding: Tressed to Impress

Jaja Rachel and Zenzi

★★★★☆ Jocelyn Bioh makes her Broadway debut with a celebration of an unsung art and its exceptional artists

September 28, 2023 8:57 pm

Melissa Etheridge–My Window: This Is M.E.

Melissa Etheridge

★★★★☆ The award-winning singer-songwriter brings her confessional bio-musical to Broadway

September 18, 2023 8:55 pm

Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors: He’s Out for Blood, and Laughs

Dracula

★★★☆☆ History’s most famous vampire is back from the undead in a kooky 90-minute comedy

September 17, 2023 8:56 pm

Swing State: A Slice-of-Midwestern-Life Drama

Swing State

★★★★☆ Outgoing Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls helms an affecting mid-pandemic drama

August 30, 2023 7:24 pm

The Tempest: Conjuring and Singing Under the Stars

The Tempest central park

★★★☆☆ For its last show until summer 2025 at the soon-to-be-renovated Delacorte, the Public returns to an old favorite

July 31, 2023 9:00 pm

Let’s Call Her Patty: A Choppy New Dramedy

Lets Call Her Patty

★★★☆☆ Rhea Perlman plays a Pilates-loving liberal Upper West Sider in this shallow new play

July 24, 2023 8:55 pm

The Cottage: A Midsummer Night’s Frolic

The Cottage Broadway

★★★★☆ Can you see some of the jokes coming a mile away with your eyes closed? Sure. But you’ll still laugh.

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