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August 8, 2019 8:54 pm

Sea Wall/A Life: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Sturridge in Great, Nervous Shape

★★★★☆ Carrie Cracknell forcibly directs tough-minded one-acts by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne

August 8, 2019 8:53 pm

Sea Wall/A Life: Fathers and Sons, Grappling with Love and Loss

★★★★☆ Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal turn in stirring performances in monologues addressing parenthood and mortality

August 4, 2019 3:30 pm

Manilow Broadway: He Writes the Songs That Makes the Audience Sing Right Along With Him

★★★★☆ The ever-exuberant entertainer delivers a dandy Broadway concert

July 25, 2019 9:41 pm

Moulin Rouge! The Musical!: A Dazzling Exercise in Excess

Moulin Rouge Lady Marmalade

★★★★★ Karen Olivo and Aaron Tveit belt out chart-topping hits in the lavish screen-to-stage salute to “truth, beauty, freedom, and love”

July 25, 2019 9:40 pm

Moulin Rouge! The Musical!: All You Need Is Love (and Showmanship)

★★★★☆ Baz Luhrmann’s hit bohemian-Paris movie gets bigger and bolder for Broadway

June 3, 2019 9:46 pm

Dying City: Lovers, Brothers and Other Strangers

★★★☆☆ Second Stage Theater revives Christopher Shinn’s intimate play tracing personal struggles in the Iraq War’s early stages

May 30, 2019 9:17 pm

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune: Acting Brilliance in the Light of the Moon

★★★★☆ Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon shine in the Terrence McNally play

May 30, 2019 9:16 pm

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune: Love Among the (Glamorous) Downtrodden

Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon in Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune. Photo: Deen van Meer

★★★☆☆ Terrence McNally’s play, funny, wistful, and meticulously acted, doesn’t quite deliver in its second revival on Broadway

May 3, 2019 1:35 pm

Morrissey: This Charming Man, A Broadway Baby

Morrissey in Moorrissey. Photo: Jason Mendez/Getty Images.

★★★☆☆ British rock veteran Morrissey is the latest pop star to invade Broadway, with a residency at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

April 25, 2019 8:46 pm

Beetlejuice: These Ghosts Are Gonna Live Forever

Alex Brightman in Beetlejuice. Photo: Matthew Murphy

★★★★☆ The song-and-dance adaption of the Tim Burton film is built to please, and it 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.

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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

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★★★★★ 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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