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January 27, 2019 8:41 pm

My Fair Lady: Benanti and Burstein Enhance the Enchantment of Lerner and Loewe Classic

★★★★★ Stellar cast replacements make this excellent production even better

January 27, 2019 8:40 pm

My Fair Lady: A Loverly, and Fierce, New Eliza

Laura Benanti, center, with Allan Corduner (left) and Christian Dante White (right) in My Fair Lady. Photo: Joan Marcus.

★★★★★ Laura Benanti and other new recruits bring fresh joy and fire to Bartlett Sher’s ravishing revival

January 24, 2019 8:46 pm

True West: Shepard’s Raging Brothers Return

Paul Dano, left and below, and Ethan Hawke in Roundabout Theatre Company's new production of True West. Photo: Joan Marcus.

★★★★☆ Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano make their own mark in the first Broadway revival of this modern classic

January 24, 2019 8:45 pm

True West: Sam Shepard’s Brotherhood of Man

Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano in True West. Photo: Joan Marcus

★★★★☆ Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano are excellent in a revival that’s still shadowed by its previous staging

January 8, 2019 9:31 pm

Choir Boy: Tarell Alvin McCraney Reaches Broadway, Finally

★★★★★ McCraney’s prep school play is rousing and intensely spiritual entertainment

January 8, 2019 9:30 pm

Choir Boy: Make a Joyful Noise

Pope and Cooper in Choir Boy

★★★★☆ Oscar-winner Tarell Alvin McCraney makes his long-awaited Broadway debut with this 2013 coming-of-age drama

December 13, 2018 8:40 pm

To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee’s Classic Makes Magnificent Theater

★★★★★ Atticus, Scout, Jem and the rest exquisitely reimagined by Aaron Sorkin and Bartlett Sher

December 13, 2018 8:35 pm

To Kill A Mockingbird: A Timeless Favorite, Revered and Reborn

Jeff Daniels and the company of Broadway's To Kill A Mockingbird. Photo: Julieta Cervantes

★★★★★ Aaron Sorkin and director Bartlett Sher reintroduce Harper Lee’s beloved work as a play for our times, or any other

December 11, 2018 8:15 pm

Ruben & Clay’s Christmas Show: American Idols Reunite for the Holidays

Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken perform in their holiday show. Photo: Carol Rosegg

★★☆☆☆ Former rivals Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken get together to vocalize holiday songs

December 6, 2018 9:50 pm

Network: Maddening As Hell

Bryan Cranston Tony Goldwyn Network

★★☆☆☆ To quote Paddy Chayefsky’s Oscar-winning screenplay, this Network messes with the primal forces of nature

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Kramer/Fauci: Friendly Adversaries Tangle Over AIDS Progress

By David Finkle

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

Slam Frank: An Equal Opportunity Offender

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

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

The Hairy Ape: The First Zoo Story

By Michael Sommers

★★★☆☆ Jon Beavers depicts a primitive man lost in the civilized world in Irish Rep’s revival of an early O’Neill classic

The Hairy Ape: Hairier Would Be Scarier

By David Finkle

★★★☆☆ Ciarán O'Reilly directs the revival, Jon Beavers is the supposedly gorilla-like protagonist

CRITICS' PICKS

Just in Time: Jeremy Jordan Will Be Your Bobby Darin From Now On

★★★★☆ Replacing Jonathan Groff, the Broadway veteran delivers a stellar turn in the musical that merits a repeat viewing.

The Saviors: What Would Jesus Do?

★★★★☆ Writer Bubba Weiler and director Jack Serio offer a tender drama of faith and friendship

Giulia The Poison Queen of Palermo: Pure Theatrical Alchemy

★★★★★ Death really does become her, as the writer, composer and star - Jennifer Nettles - serves up a killer new musical.

women of Birthright

Birthright: Six Characters in Search of a Common Ground

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

Melanie Moore in Black Swan. Photo by Hawver and Hall

From Cambridge, MA: Black Swan, Tu-Tu Thrilling

★★★★☆ Classy musicalization of a psychosexual cinethriller uses human and technical legerdemain to spellbind

Death of a Salesman: More Relevant Than Ever

★★★★★ Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf and Christopher Abbott star in Joe Mantello's emotionally searing revival.

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