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Friday, January 6, 2023
Thursday, January 5, 2023

H.M.S. Pinafore ***** by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons January 9, 2023: Tired of the busy, complicated life of the 21st century? Step into the colorful, Victorian world of Gilbert and Sullivan, where men are true, wome…

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Broadway Babe by Barry Gordin

Broadway Babe's Viewing finds include a BBC Stephen Sondheim concert from 2022 featuring a dazzling cast of stars from both sides of the pond. January 8, 2023: Broadway Babe Randie Levine-M…

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Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Between Riverside and Crazy **** by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter January 4, 2023: Sometimes there is an unplanned, serendipitous confluence between real-life events and a play, usually having nothing to do with a playwright's inte…

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Sunday, January 1, 2023

Patti LuPone @ 54 Below by Barry Gordin

Streaming tonight! Patti LuPone: Songs From a Hat LIVE from 54 Below January 1, 2023: 54 Below will LIVE stream Patti LuPone's New Year's Day show at 8pm from the supper club on 54th Street…

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Merrily We Roll Along ***1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter January 1, 2023: No song has ever captured the feeling of sheer, outrageous, ebullient joy at having created a successful Broadway show as vividly as the late Stephen…

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Saturday, December 31, 2022

Downstate ***** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward December 31, 2022: Bruce Norris has already won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for Clybourne Park, his clever contemporary twist on race derived from Lorraine Hansbe…

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Friday, December 30, 2022

Death Of A Salesman ***** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward December 30, 2022: In its last Broadway incarnation in 2012, Death of a Salesman was so close to the 1949 original that director Mike Nichols employed the same skeletal …

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Saturday, December 24, 2022

Park West Galleries by Barry Gordin

Park West Galleries opens in Soho with a 4,000 square foot space at 411 West Broadway. December 22, 2022: Park West Galleries, one of the world's largest art dealer, celebrated the opening …

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Friday, December 23, 2022

Vanessa Williams @ 54 Below by Barry Gordin

"54 Below "Diamond Series" featured Vanessa Williams in December. December 16, 2022: The one and only Vanessa William, a recording artist with numerous hit songs and albums, was a luminous …

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Thursday, December 22, 2022

Showstopper Divas Benefits Urban Stages by Barry Gordin

Broadway Babe, Randie Levine Miller, hosted Showstopper Divas, an Urban Stages Benefit, featuring "Tomatoes Got Talent" winners. December 24, 2022:  On Saturday, December 17 Urban Stages…

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The Far Country **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter December 21, 2022: California's mid-19th-century gold rush sucked thousands of needy but adventurous foreign fortune seekers"Mexicans and Chileans, Australians, Frenc…

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Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Broadway Babe by Barry Gordin

Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Joel Grey, Alec Baldwin and more celebrating John Kander & Fred Ebb at the 1998 Kennedy Center Honors are some of the entertaining Holiday treats from Broadw…

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Monday, December 19, 2022

Ohio State Murders **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons December 19, 2022: Ohio State Murders was first performed in 1991 at the Yale Repertory Theater. Sixteen years later, the play premiered at Cleveland's Great Lakes…

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Becky Nurse of Salem *** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward December 19, 2022: Rebecca Nurse is a minor character in The Crucible, Arthur Miller's harrowing dramatization of the witch-hunt hysteria which gripped colonial America. …

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Saturday, December 17, 2022

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof by Barry Gordin

Maverick theatre group, Ruth Stage, announced the return engagement of their hit Cat On A Hot Tin Roof with TV star Courtney Henggler making her NYC stage debut as "Maggie the Cat" in the Wi…

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The Al Hirschfeld Foundation " It Exists! by Barry Gordin

By: Alix Cohen December 17, 2022: Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) spent seven decades as figurehead at the prow of the New York Times Arts and Leisure section. Drawings were delivered wra…

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Friday, December 16, 2022

Michael Urie " Jane Anger by Barry Gordin

Michael Urie Co-stars in Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company's Revival of Talene Monohon's Jane Anger … By: Ellis Nassour December 16, 2022: Are you ready for a bloody good time? …

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Becky Nurse of Salem **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter December 16, 2022: In an afterword appended to her script for Becky Nurse of Salem, playwright Sarah Ruhl (In the Next Room, or the vibrator play), whose unsatisfying…

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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Some Like It Hot ***** by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter December 14, 2022: Regardless of what Rodgers and Hammerstein may have said, there has always been something like a dame, namely, men who dress as dames. And from The…

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Tovah Feldshuh " Author by Barry Gordin

Tovah Feldshuh: Celebrating 50 Plus Years Onstage and a Heartfelt Tell-All Memoir - Part Two By: Ellis Nassour           December 14, 2022 "  Tovah Feldshuh, the four-…

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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Tony Awards 2023 by Barry Gordin

CBS will present "THE 76th ANNUAL TONY AWARDS®" airing Sunday, June 11, 2023, from a New Location, the United Palace in New York City. The TONYS will celebrate 76 years of the best …

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Monday, December 12, 2022

A Child's Christmas In Wales *** by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter December 12, 2022: As it has on five earlier occasions since 2002, the Irish Repertory Theatre has retained its venerable name despite leaping over the Irish Sea to W…

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Friday, December 9, 2022

Josephine Beavers @ 54 Below by Barry Gordin

Josephine Beavers brings her cool jazz to 54 Below. By: Patrick Christiano December 7, 2022: Josephine Beavers wowed the audience on Tuesday, the opening night of a two-night engagement a…

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Broadway Babe by Barry Gordin

Broadway Babe: West Side Story, Toast of the Town, Johnny Mathis and more. December 9, 2022:  Randie Levine-Miller has unearthed some wonderful nostalgic finds including film clips from …

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Thursday, December 8, 2022

Tovah Feldshuh by Barry Gordin

Tovah Feldshuh: Celebrating 50 Plus Years Onstage By: Ellis Nassour December 8, 20222: The four-time Tony and two-time Emmy nominee Tovah Feldshuh has done just about all there's to do in…

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Monday, December 5, 2022

Ain't No Mo' ***** by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter December 5, 2022". As Kermit the Frog often reminded us, it's not easy being a color different from that of the dominant culture. Some Black American playwrights, espe…

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Stardust Road ***** by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons December 1, 2022: Hoagland Howard Carmichael, more famously known as Hoagy, was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s. Today he is remembe…

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Hirschfeld Book by Barry Gordin

Edited by David Leopold with almost 300 Hirschfeld drawings the new book covers nearly 50 years of the American Theater in one volume. The American Theatre As Seen By Al Hirschfeld By: Pau…

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The American Theater 1962-2022 as seen by Al Hirschfeld by Barry Gordin

"Al had one of the only unique styles in the history of art." Caricaturist David Levine By: Alix Cohen December 1, 2022: For a lover of the stage, paging through a book of Al Hirschfeld…

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Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off