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February 20, 2025 7:29 pm

Garside’s Career: Hobson’s Choice Playwright Careering Downward

★★★☆☆ Harold Brighouse peers at North England politics, with the cast led by Daniel Marconi

February 6, 2025 4:09 pm

Urinetown: The Once-Startling Musical Handily Revived

★★★☆☆ Composer-lyricist Mark Hollman, book writer-lyricist Greg Kotis, director Teddy Bergman revitalize the unforgettable classic

January 26, 2025 8:00 pm

Beckett Briefs: The 20th-Century Master Served Masterfully

★★★★☆ Krapp’s Last Tape, Not I, Play, with F. Murray Abraham, Roger Dominic Casey, Kate Forbes, Sarah Street, Ciarán O’Reilly directing

January 15, 2025 8:00 pm

Show/Boat: A River: The Seminal, Historical Classic Severely Landlocked

★☆☆☆☆ Director/adaptor David Herskovits misses the mark with Kern/Hammerstein/Ferber classic

December 22, 2024 7:57 pm

All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich — Hit & Miss Revue

★★★☆☆ John Mulaney, Fred Armisen, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Richard Kind in an amusing evening

December 17, 2024 11:51 pm

A Guide for the Homesick: 2 Actors, 4 Characters, 1 Misguided Script

★★☆☆☆ Actors McKinley Belcher III, Uly Schlesinger, director Shira Milikowsky distinguish Ken Urban’s confusing drama

November 21, 2024 8:57 pm

Death Becomes Her: 1992 Streep-Hawn Film Musicalized, Unbecomingly

★★☆☆☆ Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard are the contentious bffs, with Christopher Gattelli directing-choreographing

November 21, 2024 8:53 pm

The Blood Quilt: Katori Hall’s Beautifully Stitched Sisters Play

★★★★☆ Lileana Blain-Cruz directs a highly proficient cast hardly upstaged by a series of awesome quilts

November 14, 2024 8:57 pm

King Lear: Kenneth Branagh Brings a Revival For Our Time, Sorta

★★★☆☆ Trimmed to two hours, the classic is directed by Branagh, Rob Ashford and Lucy Skilbeck with a young cast

November 13, 2024 8:00 pm

Mama I’m a Big Girl Now!: Bundy, Butler & Winokur Celebrate with Love

★★★★☆ The Broadway vets cleverly relive their related on-stage and off-stage lives

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Call Me Izzy: Jean Smart Extremely Smart in Smart Jamie Wax Character Study

By David Finkle

★★★★☆ Sarna Lapine directs the six-time Emmy winner soloing as a talented but oppressed trailer-park housewife

Call Me Izzy: Jean Smart Shines in a Dark New Play

By Roma Torre

★★★☆☆ The 'Hacks' star takes the Broadway stage solo, as an abused trailer park wife who just wants to write

Prosperous Fools: Taylor Mac Attacks, Unpersuasively

By Michael Sommers

★★☆☆☆ A grant-winning genius bites the philanthropic hands that feed him

Prosperous Fools: Taylor Mac Takes on Molière But Not Prosperously, Foolishly

By David Finkle

★☆☆☆☆ Darko Tresnjak directs the misguided satire, with Mac as Artist and Jason O'Connell and Sierra Boggess as other targets

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