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&Juliet
Not every musical can survive the replacement of its Tony-nominated leading lady or feel fresh on its second viewing. But not every musical proves to be “&Juliet,” the thoroughly enchanting “jukebox musical” now at the… [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 Little Night Music
Even here in New York City, thousands of miles from Scandinavia, the sun did not set before the great orchestrator and conductor Jonathan Tunick led the 53-piece Orchestra of St. Luke’s into the opening notes… [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]
All of Me
Possessing all the positive qualities of the classic film “rom-com,” Laura Winters’ winning new play “All of Me,” now being presented by The New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Center, has its 20something main… [more]
Appropriate
Raucous laughs. Loud gasps. Stunned silence. All turn out to be appropriate responses to “Appropriate,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ provocative play, now getting a belated – and yes, excellent -- Broadway production via Second Stage at the… [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]
Breaking the Story
As Thomas Wolfe wondered, can you ever go home again? Even when you change your physical surroundings? It’s the major dilemma surrounding Marina Reyes (played by the stalwart Maggie Siff), a longtime war correspondent who… [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]
Cats: “The Jellicle Ball”
For many years, I felt the four scariest words in the English language were “CATS: Now and Forever.” So, it should mean it a lot when I say that while I don’t think a forever… [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]
Clowns Like Me
If, like me, you’re still recovering from Eddie Redmayne suddenly emerging on stage dressed like Stephen King’s Pennywise in “Cabaret,” your natural inclination may be to stay away from a show titled “Clowns Like Me.”… [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]
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]
Here There Are Blueberries
In theater, as in life, timing is often everything. Take the arrival of the Tectonic Project’s “Here There Are Blueberries,” now at New York Theatre Workshop. It’s a potent warning about how the Holocaust may… [more]
Home
The idea of home – as a safe place that one desperately wants to return to – is a powerful concept all-too-present currently on the New York stage, from “The Wiz” to “Breaking the Story.”… [more]
Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares
The title of Laura Benanti’s hilarious and touching new solo show, “Nobody Cares,” now at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre, is the ultimate in self-deprecation, which is also a good way to describe this ultra-enjoyable 80-minute… [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]
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]
N/A
Perhaps it’s a faint praise – or perhaps it’s pure validation -- but by the end of Mario Correa's entertaining if superficial two-hander “N/A,” now at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater under Diane Paulus’ solid… [more]
Oh, Mary
If those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it, those who do learn it are able to create hilarious theater -- as is proven by “Oh, Mary!” now occupying Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre… [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]
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 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]
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]
What Became of Us
A pair of characters listed in the Playbill simply as “Q” and “Z.” A set (by Tonya Orellana) consisting only of a large white projection screen and gray slab-like piece of playground or gymnastic equipment.… [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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