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BROADWAY

•  Aladdin  || ★★★★☆ Elysa Gardner
•  & Juliet  || ★★★★☆ Melissa Rose Bernardo | ★★★★☆ Frank Scheck
•  Boop!  || ★★★★☆ Frank Scheck | ★★★☆☆ Bob Verini
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Buena Vista Social Club || ★★★★★ Bob Verini | ★★★★☆ Michael Sommers
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Cabaret  || ★★★★☆ Melissa Rose Bernardo | ★★★★☆ Frank Scheck
•  Chicago
•  Dead Outlaw  || ★★★★★ Steven Suskin | ★★★★☆ Michael Sommers
•  Death Becomes Her  || ★★★★☆ Frank Scheck | ★★☆☆☆ David Finkle
•  Floyd Collins || ★★★★☆ Michael Sommers | ★★☆☆☆ Bob Verini
•  Glengarry Glen Ross  || 
★★★★☆ Frank Scheck | ★★★★☆ Roma Torre
•  Goodnight and Good Luck  || ★★★★★ David Finkle | ★★★☆☆ Frank Scheck 
•  Gypsy || ★★★★☆ Melissa Rose Bernardo | ★★★★☆  Steven Suskin
•  Hadestown  || ★★★★☆ Elysa Gardner | ★★★★☆ Michael Sommers
•  Hamilton
•  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child  || ★★★★☆ Steven Suskin | ★★★★☆ Elysa Gardner
•  Hell’s Kitchen  || ★★★☆☆ Melissa Rose Bernardo | ★★★☆☆ Bob Verini
•  John Proctor Is the Villain  || ★★★★★ Melissa Rose Bernardo | ★★★☆☆ Frank Sheck
•  Just in Time  ||
★★★★☆ Melissa Rose Bernardo | ★★★★☆ Frank Scheck
•  Maybe Happy Ending  ||
★★★★☆ Melissa Rose Bernardo | ★★★★☆ Michael Sommers
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  MJ  || ★★★☆☆ Jesse Oxfeld | ★★★☆☆ Elysa Gardner
•  Moulin Rouge!  || ★★★★★ Melissa Rose Bernardo | ★★★★☆ Jesse Oxfeld
•  Oh, Mary!  || ★★★★☆ Bob Verini | ★★☆☆☆ Michael Sommers 
•  Operation Mincemeat  || ★★★★☆ David Finkle | ★★★★☆ Michael Sommers
•  Othello  || ★★★★☆ Roma Torre | ★★★☆☆ Frank Scheck
•  Purpose ||
★★★★☆ Bob Verini | ★★★☆☆ David Finkle
•  Real Women Have Curves  || ★★★★★ Roma Torre | ★★★★☆ Melissa Rose Bernardo
•  Six  || ★★★★★ Melissa Rose Bernardo | ★★★★★ Steven Suskin
•  Smash  || ★★★☆☆ Roma Torre | ★★☆☆☆ Michael Sommers 
•  Sondheim’s Old Friends  || ★★★★★ David Finkle | ★★★☆☆ Steven Suskin
•  Stranger Things: The First Shadow ||
★★★★☆ Bob Verini | ★★★☆☆ David Finkle
•  Sunset Blvd.  ||
★★★☆☆ Frank Scheck | ★★★☆☆ David Finkle
•  The Book of Mormon
•  The Great Gatsby  || ★★★☆☆  Sandy MacDonald | ★★☆☆☆  David Finkle
•  The Last Five Years  || ★★★☆☆ Steven Suskin | ★★★☆☆ Bob Verini
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  The Lion King  || ★★★★★ Steven Suskin | ★★★☆☆ Jesse Oxfeld
•  The Outsiders  || ★★★★☆ Roma Torre |★★★☆☆ Frank Scheck
•  The Picture of Dorian Gray  || ★★★★★ Roma Torre | ★★★☆☆ Michael Sommers
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  Wicked

Primary Sidebar

Angry Alan: A Brilliant Skewering of Male Toxicity

By Frank Scheck

★★★★☆ John Krasinski plays a depressed middle-aged man who goes down an internet rabbit hole in Penelope Skinner's sharp-edged drama.

Angry Alan: John Krasinski Swallows the Red Pill

By Michael Sommers

★★★★☆ Director Sam Gold’s staging exhibits a nice American guy going wrong

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

CRITICS' PICKS

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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