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December 10, 2018 9:45 pm

Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine: Lynn Nottage on a Comic Escapade

★★★★☆ This early play by the two-time Pulitzer-winner is a comedy lark

December 9, 2018 7:10 pm

The Jungle: Masterful, Timely, and Devastating Living Theater

★★★★★ This latest excellent UK import brings the European Refugee Crisis to our shores

November 15, 2018 9:40 pm

A Chorus Line: One Singular Sensation All Over Again

★★★★★ Michael Bennett’s masterwork is back, and as powerful as ever

November 13, 2018 2:18 pm

Audra McDonald: In Performance and Conversation at Town Hall

★★★★☆ The six-time Tony winner is her usual exceptional self in a one-night-only visit to Town Hall

November 11, 2018 9:30 pm

The New One: And Papa Makes Three, With Nonstop Laughter

★★★★☆ Stand-up comedian Mike Birbiglia is pulled into fatherhood, with hilarious and heartwarming results

November 8, 2018 9:31 pm

King Kong: B’way Agape Over Ape

★★☆☆☆ This misguided musical colossus, in New York after repeated rewrites, proves underwhelming

October 30, 2018 9:40 pm

Days of Rage: Dropouts, Protests, and the SDS

★★☆☆☆ Steven Levenson, the Dear Evan Hansen librettist, returns with a sixties problem play

October 25, 2018 8:55 pm

Lewiston/Clarkston: Westward Ho! 200 Years Later

★★★★☆ Two separate but thematically related plays by Samuel D. Hunter make for a uniquely special dramatic event

October 22, 2018 11:23 pm

School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play: Jubilantly Funny High School Days

★★★★☆ Jocelyn Bioh’s uproarious comedy returns to MCC

October 21, 2018 9:46 pm

The Ferryman: A Modern Masterwork from Jez Butterworth

★★★★★ This sprawling family story set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles is a contemporary classic

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