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August 5, 2018 5:50 pm

The Band’s Visit: Sasson Gabay Joins the Still-Excellent Tony Winner

★★★★★ Replacing Tony Shalhoub, the Isaeli star helps maintain the just-about-perfect chamber musical

July 26, 2018 9:31 pm

Head Over Heels: The Beat Goes On

Head Over Heels ensemble

★★★★☆ Mad about the Go-Go’s? Get up and go to the Elizabethan-set musical packed with their hook-heavy hits.

July 26, 2018 9:30 pm

Head Over Heels: A New Musical With Plenty of Surprises

★★★☆☆ A rollicking Elizabethan musical, with transgender themes and a score, so to speak, by The Go-Go’s.

July 23, 2018 9:50 pm

Straight White Men: Nice Guys Get Framed in a Dramatic Diorama

Stephen Payne, Josh Charles, Armie Hammer and Paul Schneider celebrate Christmas in Straight White Guys. Photo: Joan Marcus

★★★☆☆ Armie Hammer and others act nicely in an enigmatic Christmas story about privilege

July 23, 2018 9:50 pm

Straight White Men: Check Their Privilege!

Kate Bornstein Armie Hammer Ty Defoe in Straight White Men

★★★☆☆ Young Jean Lee makes her Broadway debut with a Christmas-set family drama starring Josh Charles and Armie Hammer as backslapping bros

May 31, 2018 9:21 pm

The Boys in the Band: 50 Shades of Gay

A gay birthday party gets celebrated in The Boys in the Band. Photo: Joan Marcus

★★★★★ Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, and a charismatic ensemble leap out of a queer time capsule from 1968

May 31, 2018 9:20 pm

The Boys in the Band: Turning, Turning, Turning

Playing party games in The Boys in the Band. Photo: Joan Marcus

★★★☆☆ Mart Crowley’s 1968 classic, now in a starry revival that shows how far we’ve come, is as indelible as ever—and as confounding

April 26, 2018 7:30 pm

The Iceman Cometh: Monumental O’Neill, with Monumental Denzel

Denzel Washington and the Company of The Iceman Cometh. Photo: Julieta Cervantes

★★★★★ George C. Wolfe and a sterling cast illuminate long night’s journey of pipe dreams lost

April 26, 2018 7:29 pm

The Iceman Cometh: Denzel Washington Swims Above O’Neill’s Lower Depths

★★★☆☆ Living portraits of riffraff gleam amid an arty Broadway revival of a classic

April 25, 2018 9:16 pm

Saint Joan: Manhattan Theatre Club’s Revival Doesn’t Ring the Bell

Adam Chanler-Berat and Condola Rashad in Saint Joan. Photo: Joan Marcus

★★☆☆☆ A cheerful Condola Rashad confidently portrays Shaw’s saintly warrior as a pleasant peasant

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Kenrex: A True Crime Thriller Boasting Rollercoaster Thrills

By David Finkle

★★★★★ Actor Jack Holden and writer/director Ed Stambolloulian hit the bull's eye with Kenrex

Kenrex: True Crime Time in Flyover Country

By Michael Sommers

★★★☆☆ An English import showcases Jack Holden’s Olivier Award-winning performance as an ugly American

The Lost Boys: Vampire Musical Lacks Bite

By Frank Scheck

★★★☆☆ Michael Arden directs this lavish musical adaptation of the 1987 cult film about a teenage boy who falls in with a gang of bloodsuckers.

The Lost Boys: Bite, But Not Enough Blood

By Roma Torre

★★★☆☆ Broadway sinks its teeth into the 1987 vampire movie and emerges with a visually thrilling if not so scary musical

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The Balusters cast

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