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&Juliet
It’s perhaps only appropriate that “&Juliet,” the thoroughly enchanting new “jukebox musical” now at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, ends with an audience singalong to “Can’t Stop the Feeling,” the ultra-catchy Oscar-nominated theme from the 2016… [more]
A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical
Prepare to hear noise – and make noise – at “A Beautiful Noise,” the often exuberant if tonally confused biomusical about the legendary singer-songwriter Neil Diamond, now settling in for what I expect to be… [more]
A Sign of the Times
There are probably big dollar signs in the eyes of the commercial producers of “A Sign of the Times,” the sometimes entertaining and often bloated jukebox musical – co-produced by the York Theatre Company –… [more]
Aladdin
Casey Nicholaw has proven more than once over his career that he knows how to create a truly show-stopping moment on stage (just think of “Show Off” from “The Drowsy Chaperone”), but the talented director-choreographer… [more]
An Enemy of The People
The dangers of environmental recklessness. The superiority of the rich and the resentment of the poor and the immigrant. The ease with which “fake news” can be spread. The treatment of women as second-class citizens.… [more]
Back to the Future
The theatrical equivalent of a BOGO (buy one, get one free) sale, “Back to the Future: The Musical,” the screen-to-stage adaptation of the popular 1985 film now at the Winter Garden Theatre, seems specifically designed… [more]
Brooklyn Laundry
Someday, I suspect some arts organization will put on a festival of works by John Patrick Shanley that focuses on his penchant for unlikely couples, which will include his landmark first play “Danny and the… [more]
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
What good is sitting alone in your room when you can be ensconced at the Kit Kat Club, or more accurately the extensively renovated August Wilson Theatre, now home to Rebecca Frecknall’s reconceived version of… [more]
Chicago
For much of its 20+ year run, the Broadway revival of the brilliant John Kander-Fred Ebb musical “Chicago” at the Ambassador Theatre has attracted new audiences by bringing in a rotating series of superstars from… [more]
Hadestown
Usually, I only tell my enemies to go to hell, but, right now, I’m making an exception. Friends, countrymen, whoever –get thee down to the Walter Kerr Theatre where Anais Mitchell’s incredibly moving and melodic… [more]
Hamilton
History is made, in more ways than one, in “Hamilton,” the consistently thrilling, often groundbreaking new musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda that has landed at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre after an award-winning run earlier this year… [more]
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Yes, Virginia, there’s finally some real magic back on Broadway! Fear not, even in its “slimmed-down” one-part version, Jack Thorne’s “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” a continuation of J.K. Rowling’s multi-book saga, still has… [more]
Heart of Rock and Roll
No matter how much one loves a recent pop music catalogue, no matter what happy flurry of nostalgia it may bring, there’s no guarantee it will “survive” the true jukebox musical treatment, with familiar tunes… [more]
Hell's Kitchen
Being able to brilliantly straddle the line between (semi)autobiography and a universal coming-of-age tale is just one of the many achievements of the vibrantly exciting new musical, “Hell’s Kitchen,” now at the Shubert Theatre. Expect… [more]
Lempicka
Without question, the art of making art about artists – especially visual ones – has long proved tricky for theater makers. Stil, it’s clearly not fair for audiences to expect “Sunday in the Park with… [more]
Mary Jane
Seemingly designed as both testament to the human spirt and an examination of the status of women in today’s society, Amy Herzog’s autobiographically-inspired play “Mary Jane,” now making its overdue Broadway debut at Manhattan Theatre… [more]
Merrily We Roll Along
How did it happen? How did British director Maria Friedman do what hasn’t been done before: Deliver a triumphant production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s short-lived 1981 Broadway musical “Merrily We Roll Along,” which… [more]
MJ
If there’s ever been any question that Michael Jackson was one of the greatest singer-dancers that pop music has ever produced, the new biomusical “MJ,” now at Broadway’s Neil Simon Theatre, simply refutes all doubters.… [more]
Mother Play
Paula Vogel has never shied away from using her life and her family in her work – she made her theatrical “name” over 40 years ago with the autobiographically-inspired “The Baltimore Waltz” – but the… [more]
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
As any Francophile can tell you, red is the signature hue of the new Broadway megamusical “Moulin Rouge,” now at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. It’s prevalent in many aspects of Derek McLane’s extra-extravagant set, Catherine… [more]
Patriots
Not since Shakespeare has any writer has been more fascinated with power – or made audiences so complicit in his obsession – than Peter Morgan, who has scored critical and commercial successes with “Frost/Nixon,” “The… [more]
Six
“Remember us from PBS?,” Catherine of Aragon (the excellent Adrianna Hicks) cheekily asks the audience early on at the extremely entertaining “Six,” even though I doubt if many of the folks sitting inside the Brooks… [more]
Stereophonic
“Art isn’t easy/Every minor detail/is a major decision/Have to keep things in scale/have to keep to your vision.”
Unsurprisingly, the late, great Stephen Sondheim summed up in mere seconds what David Adjmi takes over three… [more]
Suffs
Musical theater has long given short shrift to America’s unsung heroines, which is one reason that Shaina Taub’s bracing musical “Suffs,” now at the Music Box Theatre, feels like both a celebration and a corrective… [more]
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
When you’ve attended the tale of “Sweeney Todd,” nearly a dozen times, it’s perhaps forgivable that indelible images of previous productions swim through your head during the early moments of Thomas Kail’s ultimately must-see version… [more]
The Book of Mormon
Traditional in form and style, but subversive in content, the new musical, “The Book of Mormon,” is a no-holds-barred extravaganza rife with irreverence. Its creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, of “South Park” fame, and… [more]
The Great Gatsby
Just as Jay Gatsby, the millionaire at the center of F. Scott Fitzgerald classic novel “The Great Gatsby,” believes that an excessive show of wealth signals that he’s made it in 1920’s Long Island society,… [more]
The Lion King
The most successful of Disney's screen-to-stage adaptations benefits greatly from Julie Taymor's masterful staging, complete with bigger-than-life puppets who bring the African wildlife to life. The story of the young lion cub who must succeed… [more]
The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks’ best-selling 1996 novel (and its beloved 2004 movie adaptation), “The Notebook,” is cannily designed to push more buttons than a Depression-era elevator operator. A decades-spanning tale of boy gets girl, loses girl, gets… [more]
The Outsiders
At the end of “The Outsiders,” both S.E. Hinton’s groundbreaking 1967 novel about teen class warfare in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the faithful and very satisfying musical adaptation now open at the Jacobs Theatre, there is… [more]
The Who’s Tommy
Feel me. Check. See me. Double check. Hear me. Triple check. Indeed, all the boxes have been checked by the thrillingly visceral and gloriously (and loudly) sung new production of the classic 1969 rock opera… [more]
The Wiz
“The Wiz is a Wow!” shouted the TV commercials back in 1975 that helped transform the all-black musical take on the beloved 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” into a financial success that ran for… [more]
Titanique
With so much of today’s theater forcing us to reflect on our current-day society and its moral problems, no one can blame audiences for seeking a pure escape – perhaps just like the millionaires of… [more]
Uncle Vanya
Modernized settings. Contemporary language. Unusual casting of roles. New Yorkers have become extremely used to directors “tampering” with theatrical classics, but luckily, the strongest plays survive even with these fundamental (and often unnecessary) updates.
Such… [more]
Water for Elephants
Throughout “Water for Elephants,” the crowd-pleasing new musical directed by the talented Jessica Stone at the Imperial Theatre, there are amazing displays of acrobatic ability (mostly performed by the astounding members of the Canadian-based 7… [more]
White Rose
Especially in this theatrical season – already chock full of works about antisemitism here and abroad –one can imagine producing a play based on the true tale of a group of non-Jewish 20something university students… [more]
Wicked
This very entertaining if dangerously overstuffed musical tells the "true story" about how poor misunderstood Elphaba (Shoshanna Bean) became the Wicked Witch of the West, and how she and good witch Galinda (Jennifer Laura Thompson)… [more]
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