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Thursday, March 24, 2022

The Encompass New Opera Theatre by Barry Gordin

By: Maryann Lopinto After celebrating 46 years of creative music theatre THE ENCOMPASS NEW OPERA THEATRE presented their yearly gala, after an absence of two years because of the Pandemic,…

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Phoebe LeGere by Barry Gordin

Celebrate Spring with the Incomparable Phoebe Legere March 22, 2022:  Phoebe Legere, an internationally renowned musician, personality and composer, will bring her magic to a residency a…

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Saturday, March 19, 2022

A Touch Of The Poet *** by Barry Gordin

By: Bernard Carragher  March 19, 2022: "A Touch of the Poet" is not one of Eugene O'Neill's best dramas yet it does have some memorable characters and some sharp honest theatrical sce…

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Wednesday, March 16, 2022

A Touch of The Poet **** by Barry Gordin

By: Isa Goldberg March 16, 2022: At the Irish Repertory Theatre, director Ciarán  O'Reilly's revival of Eugene O'Neill's," A Touch of The Poet," makes for a rarely engrossing eveni…

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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The Finalist by Barry Gordin

Emerging Artists Theatre Presents THE FINALIST A performance on Sunday, March 27th @ 2pm at TADA TheatrePart of the 2022 New Work Series (March 21 " April 10, 2022)  Emerging Artis…

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Monday, March 14, 2022

A Touch Of The Poet *** by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter Before us on the Irish Rep's miniscule stage is a lifelike simulacrum of the dining room in a village inn outside Boston, circa 1828 (the year of Andrew Jackson's elec…

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Tony Awards 2022 by Barry Gordin

The 75th Annual Tony Awards, a celebration of the 2021-2022 Broadway Season, will air live on Sunday, June 12. March 10, 2022: The 75the Annual Tony Awards will return to the legendary Rad…

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Sunday, March 13, 2022

Coal Country **** by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter March 12, 2022: On March 13, 2020, precisely two years ago, minus one day, I was scheduled to see Coal Country at the Public Theater; you all know what happened next…

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Tuesday, March 8, 2022

On Sugarland **** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward March 8, 2022: The offstage war in On Sugarland, Alesha Harris' poetic and riveting new play at New York Theater Workshop, is unnamed. It could be the Persian Gulf War o…

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Monday, March 7, 2022

Isaac Mizrahi by Barry Gordin

Isaac Mizrahi: 'In Person' (at Café Carlyle) " Fun! By: Alix Cohen March 6, 2022: Isaac Mizrahi almost bounds onto the stage wearing urbane black with two BIG silk flower bouttonieres.…

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Sunday, March 6, 2022

Women's History Month " Women in Magic by Barry Gordin

By: Alix Cohen March 7, 2022: Yes, Virginia, there are women magicians. This March, Women's History Month, as we celebrate more visible achievers, Monday Night Magic brings atten…

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Friday, March 4, 2022

Broadway Update by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward March 3, 2022: James Earl Jones, whose theatrical career spans six decades, will become the second African-American theatre artist and the only living person to have a B…

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Thursday, March 3, 2022

Tony Walton by Barry Gordin

Award-winning Broadway and film designer, Tony Walton, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, March 2, 2022, from complications of a stroke.  March 3, 2022: Tony Walton was an award-winni…

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Sunday, February 27, 2022

English ****, The Hang *** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward February 27, 2022: Our relationship with language is the subject of Sanaz Toossi's perceptive new play English, presented in a taut and affecting production by Knud Adam…

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Broadway Update by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward February 27, 2022: We have the first definite date for a Broadway opening for the 2022-23 season. Kimberly Akimbo, the hit musical version of David Lindsay-Abaire's quir…

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English *** by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter February 27, 2022: Anyone who's ever struggled to master a foreign language in private classes will find something to appreciate in English,Sanaz Toossi's fitfully amus…

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Friday, February 25, 2022

Black No More **** by Barry Gordin

By: Patrick Christiano Musical satire, with exciting Bill T. Jones choreography and an eclectic score, lampoons race inequalities with style. The outstanding ensemble, headed by the chari…

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Thursday, February 24, 2022

The Daughter-in-Law ***1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter February 24, 2022: D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), the deservedly admired British novelist, known for provocative works like Lady Chatterley's Lover and Sons and Lovers, …

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The Daughter-in-Law **** by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons February 25,2022: With his first play, The Daughter-in-Law, D. H. Lawrence returned once again to familiar territory: Eastwood, the coal mining town in the Erewash…

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The Music Man *** by Barry Gordin

By: Bernard Carragher March 2, 2022: "The Music Man" is a simple, innocent, endearing musical from 1957 which requires a cast of wonders.  The stars this time are formidable Broadwa…

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Wednesday, February 23, 2022

The Music Man **** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward February 23, 2022: The question on every theater fan's mind for two years has been: Will the highly anticipated revival of The Music Man, Meredith Willson's beloved 195…

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Saturday, February 19, 2022

Intimate Apparel ****, Black No More *** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward February 19, 2022: The African-American experience in different decades of the 20th Century is explored with ingenuity and passion in two new Off-Broadway musicals. Both…

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Thursday, February 17, 2022

The Music Man ****1/2 by Barry Gordin

"THE FINEST VIRTUOSOS": THE MUSIC MAN ****I/2 By: Samuel L. Leiter February 17, 2022: If anybody requires assurance that Broadway is back they need look no further than the Winter Garden…

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Monday, February 14, 2022

MJ ***** by Barry Gordin

The musical MJ, an electrifying explosion of music and dance, is a thrilling tribute to the artistry of Michael Jackson, featuring over twenty-five of his hit songs. By: Patrick Christiano…

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Sunday, February 13, 2022

Long Day's Journey Into Night **** by Barry Gordin

By: Bernard Carragher February 15, 2022: We have a new version of Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play, "Long Day's Journey into Night," at Off-Broadway's Audible Theater on Minetta Lane…

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Prayer for the French Republic **** 1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons February 15, 2022: Recently, Whoopi Goldberg of ABC's "The View," found herself at the center of controversy when she said, "Let's be truthful, the Holocaust is…

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Saturday, February 12, 2022

Music Man Opening Night by Barry Gordin

By: JK Clarke February 11, 2022: The opening night celebration of The Music Man on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theater starring Tony winners Sutton Foster and Hugh Jackman. After the s…

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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Long Day's Journey Into Night **** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward February 8, 2022: Transposing classic plays into modern eras has been an accepted theatrical technique for quite a while now. Moving these timeless works into a contempo…

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Monday, February 7, 2022

Madame de Mantespan " The Real Queen (Of France) by Barry Gordin

Based on a Shady Lady lecture by Edith de Belleville.By: Alix Cohen February 10, 2022: Françoise de Rochechouart's path to becoming the favorite of Louis IV The Sun King, was pa…

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Saturday, February 5, 2022

Picasso's Muses by Barry Gordin

Based on A Shady Lady Zoom Lecture by Edith de Belleville  By: Alix Cohen February 7, 2022: "According to artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), there were only two types of women "…

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Friday, February 4, 2022

Prayer for the French Republic ***1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward February 4, 2022: "It's the suitcase or the coffin," bluntly explains a character in Prayer for the French Republic, Joshua Harmon's somewhat overlong, but ultimately mo…

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