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September 24, 2019 9:46 pm

The Height of the Storm: Provocative Play Offers Master Class in Acting

★★★★☆ Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins star in Florian Zeller’s newest Paris-to-London-to-New York offering

September 24, 2019 9:45 pm

The Height of the Storm: Cloudy Skies Ahead

Height of the Storm cast

★★★☆☆ Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins are entrancing as husband and wife in Florian Zeller’s going-gently-into-that-good-night drama

September 15, 2019 8:41 pm

Derren Brown, Secret: Legerdemain Unleashed at Cort

★★★★☆ UK illusionist offers evening of protean prestidigitation and purely astonishing fun

September 15, 2019 8:40 pm

Derren Brown, Secret: International Man of Mystery and Mind Games

★★★★☆ The British TV and Netflix star brings his psychological intrigue to Broadway

September 5, 2019 8:16 pm

Betrayal: Less Is More in This London-Born Revival

Betrayal trio

★★★★★ Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton, and Charlie Cox make a beguiling love triangle in Harold Pinter’s backward-spinning drama

September 5, 2019 8:15 pm

Betrayal: Pinter’s Web of Deception Returns to Broadway, Incisively

★★★★☆ Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox, and Zawe Ashton star in Jamie Lloyd’s London transfer

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”

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Birthright: Six Characters in Search of a Common Ground

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★☆ Politics underscore but don’t overpower the character-driven epic from Jonathan Spector

Birthright: Political and Personal Issues Intersect to Powerful Effect

By Frank Scheck

★★★★☆ The new play by Jonathan Spector ("Eureka Day") depicts the reunions over two decades of a group of friends who met on a Birthright trip to Israel.

A Walk on the Moon: A Musical Tribute to Enduring Marriage Vows

By David Finkle

★★★☆☆ Pamela Gray adapts her 1999 film, Annmarie Milazzo adds the tuneful score

From Massachusetts: The Zionists, A Family Storm (And The World’s)

By Bob Verini

★★★☆☆ Amidst a hurricane, a Jewish family hashes out Israel and Palestine, solving little but revealing plenty

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Melanie Moore in Black Swan. Photo by Hawver and Hall

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