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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Review: Idina Menzel Climbs to New Broadway Heights in 'Redwood' by Jesse Green

The "Wicked" belter scales a 300-foot tree, and a mountain of songs, in a powerful if woo-woo musical about trauma and resilience.

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Tuesday, February 4, 2025

'The Antiquities' Review: Relics of Late Human Life in 12 Exhibits by Jesse Green

According to Jordan Harrison's museum piece of a play, we are long extinct by 2240. But the future has kept our Betamaxes.

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Monday, February 3, 2025

'Schmigadoon!' Review: An Affectionate Golden Age Schpoof by Jesse Green

The Apple TV+ series comes to the stage of the Kennedy Center with its snark and affection for classic Broadway musicals intact.

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Thursday, January 23, 2025

Review: In 'English,' Looking for a Language to Live In by Jesse Green

For the students in Sanaz Toossi's dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world's lingua franca is not exactly free.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

In a 'Show Boat' Reboot, Ol' Man River Gets an Extreme Makeover by Jesse Green

"Show/Boat: A River" reverses the racial lens on the great-grandfather of American musicals.

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Friday, January 10, 2025

'Tammy Faye' and 'Cinderella' Were Hits in London but Failed on Broadway by Jesse Green

What happened to "Sunset Boulevard," "Back to the Future," "Cinderella" and "Tammy Faye" when they crossed the Atlantic?

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Wednesday, January 1, 2025

TV, Movies, Music and Art to Look Forward to in 2025 by James Poniewozik, Zachary Woolfe, Jon Pareles, Jason Farago, Gia Kourlas, Jesse Green, Salamishah Tillet, Mike Hale, Alissa Wilkinson, Amanda Hess, Jason Zinoman and Maya Phillips

"Severance" is finally back for its second season, three New York art museums are set to reopen and ballet goes extreme.

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Friday, December 20, 2024

Review: In 'Gypsy,' Audra McDonald's Gonna Show It to Ya by Jesse Green

Hold your hats and hallelujah, our leading musical tragedienne offers an ultra-dramatic Rose in George C. Wolfe's Broadway revival.

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Monday, December 16, 2024

Review: In 'Eureka Day,' Holding Space for Those You Hate by Jesse Green

A hilarious new Broadway production asks: Can the superwoke vaxxers and anti-vaxxers at an elite private school learn to get along?

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Thursday, December 12, 2024

'Cult of Love' Review: We Wish You a Wretched Christmas by Jesse Green

A hilarious, harrowing holiday gift from Leslye Headland, who brings another unhappy family to Broadway. Zachary Quinto and Shailene Woodley star.

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Monday, December 9, 2024

Best Theater of 2024 by Jesse Green

Broadway roared back, but the kitties were downtown and the prayer service was in Brooklyn.

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Thursday, November 21, 2024

Review: In 'Death Becomes Her,' Spiking the Fountain of Youth by Jesse Green

Hilarious star turns from Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard make the mostly unfunny 1992 film into an intermittently memorable Broadway musical.

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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

'Swept Away' Review: Lost at Sea, How Far Would You Sink? by Jesse Green

A dark musical about a shipwreck and its aftermath, with songs by the Avett Brothers, anchors on Broadway.

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Tuesday, November 12, 2024

'Maybe Happy Ending' Review: Darren Criss and Helen J Shen Are Robots in Love by Jesse Green

A supersmart musical about making a connection arrives on Broadway in a joyful, heartbreaking, cutting-edge production.

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Monday, November 11, 2024

'A Wonderful World' Review: Blowing Louis Armstrong's Horn Isn't Enough by Jesse Green

The great jazz trumpeter and sandpaper vocalist gets the old jukebox treatment in a new Broadway musical starring James Monroe Iglehart.

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Thursday, November 7, 2024

'Walden' Review: My Sister! My Twin! My Astronaut! by Jesse Green

Emmy Rossum and ZoÃ« Winters star in a new Off Broadway play that's a climate disaster drama cohabiting with a domestic soap opera.

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Thursday, October 31, 2024

Review: A Vocally Splendid 'Ragtime' Raises the Roof by Jesse Green

Joshua Henry stars in an exhilarating gala revival of the 1998 musical about nothing less than the harmony and discord of America.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

What It Means to Make Art About Nazis Now by Jesse Green

And is the culture telling the right stories about them, at a time when it's never felt more urgent?

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Friday, October 25, 2024

Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler Revive 'Romeo + Juliet' for a TikTok Generation by Jesse Green

The Broadway revival of "Romeo + Juliet" plays to the TikTok crowd. But maybe that's a good thing.

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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Review: A Reverse Angle on Arthur Miller in 'A Woman Among Women' by Jesse Green

Julia May Jonas's compelling play, opening the Bushwick Starr's new theater, explores how a story written about men looks from the other side.

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Sunday, October 20, 2024

In 'Sunset Boulevard,' Nicole Scherzinger Is 23 Feet Tall by Jesse Green

A fascinating Broadway revival of the bombastic 1994 musical blows it up even further.

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Adam Driver in 'Hold On to Me Darling,' a Satire of Sincerity by Jesse Green

A country music star embodies the clichés of celebrity in an Off Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan's 2016 comedy.

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Friday, October 11, 2024

Review: 'Our Town' Starring Jim Parsons Is Still Avant-Garde After 86 Years by Jesse Green

The Thornton Wilder classic returns to Broadway, still brutal and avant-garde after 86 years.

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Wednesday, October 9, 2024

In 'The Counter,' With Anthony Edwards, a Cup of Joe and a Side of Secrets by Jesse Green

A diner patron asks a waitress for an extraordinary side dish in Meghan Kennedy's sweet but shaggy new play.

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Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Review: Daniel Dae Kim as a Playwright Unmasked in 'Yellow Face' by Jesse Green

David Henry Hwang's 2007 play, now in a fine Broadway revival, is a pointed critique of identity, masquerading as a mockumentary.

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Monday, September 30, 2024

Robert Downey Jr. Is a Novelist With a Novel Muse in 'McNeal' by Jesse Green

The "Oppenheimer" star makes his Broadway debut in Ayad Akhtar's timely new play about a literary lion who gets assistance from A.I.

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Sunday, September 29, 2024

Review: 'The Hills of California,' Alive With the Sound of Music by Jesse Green

In Jez Butterworth's compelling new play, four girls trained to sing close harmony wind up as acrimonious adults.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Review: What's Eating Trump? The Singing 'Ghost of John McCain' by Jesse Green

The former senator haunts the former president, or vice versa, in this sophomoric musical satire.

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Thursday, September 19, 2024

'Forbidden Broadway' Review: Let Them Somewhat Entertain You by Jesse Green

From its perch way Off Broadway, the long-running satire slings its affectionate arrows at Patti, Audra and the rest.

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Thursday, September 12, 2024

Review: Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow Clean Up in 'The Roommate' by Jesse Green

A Bronx grifter and an Iowa homebody share a house and eventually learn from each other in this Broadway star vehicle.

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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Yesterday's Broadway Warhorses, Saddled With Today's Concerns by Jesse Green

Revivals of "Romeo and Juliet," "Our Town," "Gypsy" and "Sunset Boulevard" aim to show that rethinking for the present is what makes classics classic.

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