★★★★☆ Cat Cohen delivers a hilarious evening of jokes and songs about her major health crisis.
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Broad Strokes: Death Defying Laughter
★★★☆☆ Comedian Cat Cohen finds fun in a story about the hole they found in her heart
The Gin Game: Debra Winger and Arliss Howard Deliver a Winning Hand
★★★★☆ The two stars appear in an unusually intimate production of D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize winner.
Shifters: Love and Romance Profoundly Revisited
★★★★☆ The West End hit makes its American debut at the Cherry Lane in a production to fall for.
The Whoopi Monologues: Goldberg’s Characters Still Charm and Disarm
★★★★☆ Whoopi Goldberg’s speeches get the multi-actor treatment in Whitney White’s sharp production
The Whoopi Monologues: Five Whoopis Are Less Than One
★★★☆☆ Five stellar actresses perform Whoopi Goldberg’s award-winning one-person show in this Lincoln Center Theater reimagining
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.
Giulia The Poison Queen of Palermo: Jennifer Nettles brews a tasty mass murder musical
★★★★☆ Director Mary Zimmerman stages a ravishing visual production of an historic story told from a working woman’s perspective
Othello: Free As the Open Air
★★★☆☆ Nick Westrate and James Udom play alpha and beta dogs in Classical Theatre of Harlem’s outdoor staging of Shakespeare’s drama
Birthright: Six Characters in Search of a Common Ground
★★★★☆ Politics underscore but don’t overpower the character-driven epic from Jonathan Spector