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May 8, 2025 8:00 pm

The Black Wolfe Tone: Kwaku Fortune’s Forceful Semi-Autographical Solo Click

★★★★☆ The actor, new to the Manhattan Stage, makes himself known, as does director Nicola Murphy Dubey

April 27, 2025 9:34 pm

Dead Outlaw: Rip-Roarin’ Musical Hits the Bull’s-Eye

★★★★★ David Yazbek’s brashly macabre tuner features Andrew Durand as a real-life desperado, wanted dead and alive

April 27, 2025 9:32 pm

Dead Outlaw: Macabre, Morbid, and Wickedly Smart

★★★★☆ David Yazbek and Itamar Moses craft a rowdy tuner about a surprisingly lively corpse

April 27, 2025 9:30 pm

Real Women Have Curves: Plus-Size Crowd Pleaser Hits Home

★★★★★ Based on the Latin-themed play and film, the new musical hits all the right notes delivering a weighty message about immigration in America.

April 27, 2025 9:29 pm

Real Women Have Curves: Latina Stories Take Center Stage  

company of Real Women Have Curves

★★★★☆ Josefina López’s decades-old play turned movie turned musical resonates with audiences anew

April 26, 2025 10:00 pm

Just in Time: Hello, Bobby! Darin Gets a Splashy Broadway Tribute

Just in Time Christine Jonathan Julia

★★★★☆ Jonathan Groff gives a once-in-a-lifetime performance as the Grammy-winning “Beyond the Sea” singer

April 26, 2025 9:59 pm

Just in Time: A Bio-Musical Blast

★★★★☆ Jonathan Groff gloriously pays tribute to Bobby Darin in this electric, cabaret-style showcase for his talents

April 24, 2025 9:59 pm

Pirates! The Penzance Musical: Bright and Breezy in the Big Easy

★★★★☆ David Hyde Pierce, Jinkx Monsoon and Ramin Karimloo sail away in a Gilbert & Sullivan showboat

April 24, 2025 9:58 pm

Pirates! The Penzance Musical: Not for Purists, but Fun for Everyone Else

★★★★☆ Rupert Holmes delivers an entertaining, New Orleans-flavored adaptation of the classic Gilbert & Sullivan operetta

April 22, 2025 11:59 pm

Stranger Things–The First Shadow: We Will Control The Horizontal

Louis McCartney in Stranger Things: The First Shadow. Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman

★★★★☆ The origin story for a fan-fave Netflix TV series uses every conceivable means to knock our socks off – and does

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Creditors: Strindberg Updated, For Better and Worse

By Frank Scheck

★★★★☆ Liev Schreiber, Maggie Siff, and Justice Smith star in Jen Silverman's adaptation of Strindberg's classic drama.

Creditors: Love, Marriage, and Maddening Mind Games

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★☆☆ Ian Rickson directs the rarely performed Strindberg work, with a refresh from playwright Jen Silverman

Goddess: A Myth-Making, Magical New Musical

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★☆ A luminous Amber Iman casts a spell in an ambitious Kenya-set show at the Public Theater

Lights Out, Nat King Cole: Smile When Your Heart Is Breaking

By Frank Scheck

★★★☆☆ Dule Hill plays the title role in Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor's play with music, exploring Nat King Cole's troubled psyche.

CRITICS' PICKS

Dead Outlaw: Rip-Roarin’ Musical Hits the Bull’s-Eye

★★★★★ David Yazbek’s brashly macabre tuner features Andrew Durand as a real-life desperado, wanted dead and alive

Just in Time Christine Jonathan Julia

Just in Time: Hello, Bobby! Darin Gets a Splashy Broadway Tribute

★★★★☆ Jonathan Groff gives a once-in-a-lifetime performance as the Grammy-winning “Beyond the Sea” singer

John Proctor Is the Villain cast

John Proctor Is the Villain: A Fearless Gen Z Look at ‘The Crucible’

★★★★★ Director Danya Taymor and a dynamite cast bring Kimberly Belflower’s marvelous new play to Broadway

Good Night, and Good Luck: George Clooney Makes Startling Broadway Bow

★★★★★ Clooney and Grant Heslov adapt their 2005 film to reflect not only the Joe McCarthy era but today

The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Masterpiece from Page to Stage

★★★★★ Succession’s Sarah Snook is brilliant as everyone in a wild adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s prophetic novel

Operation Mincemeat: A Comical Slice of World War II Lore

★★★★☆ A screwball musical from London rolls onto Broadway

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