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February 13, 2025 9:57 pm

Redwood: She Talks to the Trees! (No, Really) 

Idina Menzel in Redwood

★★☆☆☆ IMAX meets Broadway in a technologically impressive but dramatically wooden new musical

February 2, 2025 7:30 pm

Pecking Order: Fowl Play Indeed

Pecking Order

★☆☆☆☆ Two infamous New York–dwelling red-tailed hawks serve as the ostensible inspiration for a flighty new comedy

January 23, 2025 9:26 pm

English: Speaking a Universal Language, in a Broadway Premiere

★★★★☆ Sanaz Toosi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play feels newly richer in this Roundabout production

January 23, 2025 9:25 pm

English: Pulitzer-Winning Play Translates Well on Broadway

★★★★☆ Playwright Sanaz Toossi schools us on what it means to be a stranger in a strange language

December 22, 2024 7:58 pm

All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich — Story Hour with Broadway Prices

★★★☆☆ A changing quartet of notable performers including John Mulaney and Lin-Manuel Miranda read comic pieces by humorist Simon Rich in this Broadway show staged by Alex Timbers.

December 22, 2024 7:57 pm

All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich — Hit & Miss Revue

★★★☆☆ John Mulaney, Fred Armisen, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Richard Kind in an amusing evening

December 19, 2024 11:59 pm

Gypsy: Hold Your Hats and Hallelujah

★★★★☆ Stephen Sondheim said “there’s not a moment” in this quintessential American musical “that isn’t entertaining.” We have to agree.

December 19, 2024 11:58 pm

Gypsy: Everything’s Coming Up Audra

★★★★☆ New production of fabled masterwork lights the lights and hits the heights

December 16, 2024 7:57 pm

Eureka Day: Woke’s the Word in Jonathan Spector’s Timely Comedy

★★★★★ Bill Irwin, Jessica Hecht and company bring great distinction to the Broadway season

December 16, 2024 7:56 pm

Eureka Day: To Vax or Not to Vax

★★★☆☆ Bill Irwin and Jessica Hecht head the ensemble in Jonathan Spector’s comedy about the board of directors of a private elementary school embroiled in a conflict about vaccination.

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By David Finkle

★★★★☆ Highly resourceful conceiver-director Daniel Fish gets theatrical again

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★★★☆☆ The Jewish teen author/Holocaust victim gets an audacious 21st-century musical glow-up

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