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★★★★★ David Adjmi takes us behind the music to reveal how the magic gets made
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2024
★★☆☆☆ A revival's choices elicit more head-scratching than cheering
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2024
★★★★☆ Suzan-Lori Parks melds the Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemings mystery with the struggle for freedom in our own day
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2024
★★★★★ Des McAnuff revisits his staging of a rock'n'roll milestone, and finds new meaning and depth
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 3, 2024
★★★★☆ Long Wharf goes on the waterfront to play Arthur Miller's melodrama for all it's worth
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 28, 2024
★★★★☆ A familiar tale of alcoholism is revitalized by authors Guettel and Lucas, focusing on the addiction rather than the cure
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:54PM[SHARE]Monday, October 9, 2023
★★★★★ A Druid Theater of Dublin marathon infuses three famous naturalistic Sean O'Casey dramas with Shakespearean sweep
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2023
★★★★☆ Behind the scenes of Steven Spielberg's legendary blockbuster, co-authored by (and starring) the son of its most explosive player
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Two history-based dramas from The National Theatre: One zings, the other doesn't
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:53AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 9, 2023
The Stratford Festival does Canada proud with a range of offerings, including wildly innovative approaches to Shakespeare
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2023
★★★★☆ Taylor Mac surprises with an Ibsenesque take on a long-ago plague parallel to our own
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 26, 2023
★★★★★ Josh Groban, Annaleigh Ashford, and "Hamilton" creatives elevate a musical classic to unprecedented heights
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 16, 2023
★★★★★ Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown examine the historical roots of our national malaise, in this bold, character-driven staging starring Ben Platt
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2022
★★★☆☆ Musicalization of the 1945 holiday classic is easy to swallow, like a good eggnog
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 11, 2022
★★★★★ A high-octane, audience-pleasing vaudeville, spun out of a cinematic classic, creates a bunch of glittering new stars
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2022
★★★★★ Audra McDonald brilliantly brings to life a masterful examination of bigotry and violence by a 91-year-old Broadway novice
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 10, 2022
★★★★★ David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori transform a quirky black comedy into a tuneful affirmation of life and difference
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 6, 2022
★★★☆☆ Ukrainian artist Igor Golyak plays fast and loose with a classic text, to intriguing if mixed results (with Baryshnikov)
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2022
★★★★☆ The renovated Huntington reopens with a full-blooded, full-voiced revival of an August Wilson classic
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2022
★★★★★ The power of music to empower, powers a rousing theatrical experience
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 4, 2022
★★☆☆☆ A cinematic salute to an inspiring teacher is musicalized into something less than inspiring
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 21, 2022
★★★★★ Broadway veterans demonstrate stardom's power to make a Sondheim gem glitter ever more brightly
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:53PM[SHARE]Friday, July 29, 2022
★★★☆☆ Jerry Lewis's classic 1963 farce, pleasantly musicalized, has its (buck) teeth pulled
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:57AM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2022
★☆☆☆☆ A glum expressionistic concert does a classic Frank Loesser score, and the audience, no favors
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2022
A provocative new play, and a grand musical revival, prove that the Pittsfield-based Barrington Stage is alive and well
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2022
★★★★★ The first U.S. regional production reframes Matthew López's Olivier & Tony-winner as an intimate epic
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:10AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 30, 2022
★★★☆☆ A long, smartly-written dysfunctional-family drama that feels somewhat longer than necessary
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2022
★★★★☆ A one-of-a-kind musical creator unravels the very strands of human identity
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:51PM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2022
★★★★★ Thornton Wilder's epic, and epically funny, American classic is reborn in a brilliant new staging
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2022
★★☆☆☆ Beanie Feldstein gives us a different take on the long-ago legend, but the rest is the same old fast shuffle
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:53PM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2022
★★★★☆ An entertaining revival of Richard Greenberg's award winner about baseball and identity sacrifices some edge
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