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October 16, 2019 9:45 pm

Forbidden Broadway The Next Generation: Musical Comedy Takes It on the Chin

★★★★☆ Gerard Alessandrini is back with his usually delectable vengeance

October 16, 2019 9:44 pm

Forbidden Broadway: It Just Keeps Rolling (and Rolling) Along

Clockwise from left: Immanuel Houston, Aline Mayagoitia, Jenny Lee Stern, Joshua Turchin and Chris Collins-Pisano in Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation. Photo: Carol Rosegg

★★★☆☆ The long-running revue is back, still entertaining but not quite sure what it’s making fun of

October 15, 2019 9:51 pm

Soft Power: Shall We Dance and Sing About Our Cultural Differences?

★★★☆☆ Hillary Clinton enjoys a Fred & Ginger romance in a satirical show at the Public

October 15, 2019 9:50 pm

Soft Power: Hillary Get Your Gun?

★★★☆☆ A sharp East-West political satire from David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori doesn’t quite deliver

October 14, 2019 4:01 pm

The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter: The Decline Rises

★★★★☆ The 1965 Ben Bagley revue well treated by director Pamela Hunt, with Lee Roy Reams

October 14, 2019 4:00 pm

The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter: Too Much Winking

★★☆☆☆ Vintage songs curdle in coy performances

October 13, 2019 5:54 pm

The White Chip: A Blithe Spirit Spins Into Chronic Alcohol Abuse

★★★☆☆ Three actors make a cautionary saga of excessive drinking go down easily

October 11, 2019 11:00 am

Georgia Mertching Is Dead: Three Amigas Who’ve Been to Hell and Back

★★★★☆ Millennial survivors take a road trip in Catya McCullen’s new play

October 11, 2019 11:00 am

Terra Firma: Sally Hammond’s Comedy(?) Not on Firm Ground

★★☆☆☆ The Coop’s introductory production lacks substance, wastes the marvelous Andrus Nichols

October 8, 2019 9:00 pm

Nothing Gold Can Stay: Wasted Youth Among the 99 Per Cent

★★★★☆ The opioid epidemic upends two families in a stirring new play by Chad Beckim

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From Massachusetts: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) and Fall in Like

By Bob Verini

★★★★☆ A modest but charming musical rom-com from the UK plucks at the heart, and the players are the main reason

The Wash: Airing a Ripe Slice of American History

By Michael Sommers

★★★☆☆ New Federal Theatre delivers a drama about the 1881 Atlanta washerwomen’s strike

Pride & Prejudice: Austen Sparkles in 3-Person Capsule Version

By Steven Suskin

★★★★☆ A breezy romp with Lizzy Bennet, Mr. Darcy, et al.

A Freeky Introduction: Divine Wisdom for Being Your Best Sexy Self

By Michael Sommers

★★★☆☆ NSangou Njikam’s show sees a Yoruban deity preach positivity in a string of stories

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Dead Outlaw: Rip-Roarin’ Musical Hits the Bull’s-Eye

★★★★★ David Yazbek’s brashly macabre tuner features Andrew Durand as a real-life desperado, wanted dead and alive

Just in Time Christine Jonathan Julia

Just in Time: Hello, Bobby! Darin Gets a Splashy Broadway Tribute

★★★★☆ Jonathan Groff gives a once-in-a-lifetime performance as the Grammy-winning “Beyond the Sea” singer

John Proctor Is the Villain cast

John Proctor Is the Villain: A Fearless Gen Z Look at ‘The Crucible’

★★★★★ Director Danya Taymor and a dynamite cast bring Kimberly Belflower’s marvelous new play to Broadway

Good Night, and Good Luck: George Clooney Makes Startling Broadway Bow

★★★★★ Clooney and Grant Heslov adapt their 2005 film to reflect not only the Joe McCarthy era but today

The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Masterpiece from Page to Stage

★★★★★ Succession’s Sarah Snook is brilliant as everyone in a wild adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s prophetic novel

Operation Mincemeat: A Comical Slice of World War II Lore

★★★★☆ A screwball musical from London rolls onto Broadway

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