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April 22, 2025 11:59 pm

Stranger Things—The First Shadow: Stage Version of Series Maybe Not Strange Enough

★★★☆☆ The Duffer Brothers go Broadway, Kate Trefry scripts, Stephen Daldry directs, Louis McCartney leads hard-working cast

April 21, 2025 10:00 pm

Floyd Collins: Jeremy Jordan goes deep as a forgotten headliner from 1925

★★★★☆ Taylor Trensch, Jason Gotay, and Lizzie McAlpine are notable in LCT’s revival of a sorrowful musical drama

April 21, 2025 9:59 pm

Floyd Collins: Waist-Deep in the Big Muddy

Taylor Trensch and company members of Floyd Collins. Photo: Joan Marcus

★★☆☆☆ Overproduction cripples the Broadway debut of a much-admired intimate art musical

April 14, 2025 11:00 pm

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

John Proctor Is the Villain cast

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

April 14, 2025 10:59 pm

John Proctor Is the Villain: A #MeToo Conversation with ‘The Crucible’

★★★☆☆ Sadie Sink stars in Kimberly Belflower’s play about a high school class wrestling with the themes of Miller’s play.

April 10, 2025 10:31 pm

Smash: Marilyn Musical Neither Smash Nor Bomb

★★★☆☆ The popular TV series about the making of a Broadway musical finally makes it to the Great White Way.

April 10, 2025 10:30 pm

Smash: Marilyn, We Hardly Knew Ye

★★☆☆☆ Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman recycle their TV score for the stage

April 8, 2025 9:01 pm

Sondheim’s Old Friends: Something Great Has Come, No Maybe About It

★★★★★ Stephen Sondheim’s brilliance celebrated by Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga, Matthew Bourne, other swells

April 8, 2025 9:00 pm

Sondheim’s Old Friends: Musical Cornucopia Makes an Overstuffed Banquet

★★★☆☆ Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga headline Cameron Mackintosh’s memorial salute to the songwriter

April 7, 2025 8:59 pm

Boop!: Boop-Oop-a-Doop!

★★★★☆ Jasmine Amy Rogers adorably brings the venerable cartoon character to life in this Broadway musical directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell.

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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.

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