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Review: What Makes ‘Oh, Mary!’ One of the Best Summer Comedies in Years
Cole Escola’s dragtastic White House farce asks the immortal question: Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
By Jesse Green
Cole Escola’s dragtastic White House farce asks the immortal question: Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
By Jesse Green
Elevator Repair Service’s staged reading of the huge James Joyce novel retains much of its humor, pathos and bawdiness.
By Jesse Green
Resetting the “Memory” musical in the world of ballroom competitions makes for a joyful reincarnation.
By Jesse Green
Marin Ireland’s play opens with Tatiana Maslany in a rotating cast of stars, and “What Became of Us” continues its own experiment with changing casts.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
A somber yet witty play set in 18th-century England is a clever perversion of a courtroom drama that features strong performances from an ensemble cast.
By Maya Phillips
Maury Yeston’s score, stupendously played and sung, is the star of the final production of an excellent Encores! season at New York City Center.
By Jesse Green
Raja Feather Kelly makes his playwriting debut with a spellbinding story of three generations of Black men at Soho Rep.
By Brittani Samuel
Lauren Patten and Taylor Iman Jones star in an achingly romantic, softly sexy new musical by Rachel Bonds and Zoe Sarnak.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
While poking fun at her own agreeable malleability, Benanti flexes her talents in a show that will be available on Audible, without the physical dimension.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
Jessica Lange stars as a ferocious matriarch alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Vogel’s latest family drama.
By Alexis Soloski
Amy Herzog’s heartbreaker arrives on Broadway with Rachel McAdams as the alarmingly upbeat mother of a fearfully sick child.
By Jesse Green
At St. Ann’s Warehouse, this documentary play about a London fire is blood-boiling and aggrieved.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
The retooled jukebox musical, with its top-notch performances and exciting choreography, “stands out as one of the rare must-sees” in a crowded season.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
In David Adjmi’s new play, with songs by Will Butler, a ’70s band’s success breeds tension, and punches up the volume on Broadway.
By Naveen Kumar
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The musical traces the story of Black twin sisters who pass as white, and exact their own form of justice for the crime of slavery, in 19th-century Texas.
By Naveen Kumar
The 30-year relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson is the basis for Suzan-Lori Parks’s hilarious and harrowing nesting doll of a play.
By Jesse Green
The circus-themed love story, already a novel and a movie, becomes a gorgeously imaginative Broadway musical.
By Jesse Green
The “Succession” star headlines a Broadway revival of Ibsen’s play about a lifesaving doctor and the town that hates him.
By Jesse Green
In Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Lucy Prebble’s play, Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell are a couple who fall in love during a pharmaceutical trial.
By Naveen Kumar
The creators of “The Band’s Visit” return with this mischievous ghost story of a musical based on an odd slice of Old West history.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
Liev Schreiber and Amy Ryan star in a revival of John Patrick Shanley’s moral head spinner about pride, the priesthood and presumptions of pedophilia.
By Jesse Green
Sufjan Stevens’s 2005 concept album has become an unlikely and unforgettable dance-musical hybrid, directed and choreographed by Justin Peck.
By Jesse Green
Zach Zucker delivers a raucously funny portrait of a catastrophically dim stand-up comic at SoHo Playhouse.
By Jason Zinoman
Cole Escola’s play, which imagines Mary Todd Lincoln as a frustrated cabaret singer, surprisingly pulls off stretching a stupid joke to its extremes.
By Joshua Barone
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Did Jelly Roll Morton “invent” jazz, as he claimed? A sensational Encores! revival offers a postmortem prosecution of one of the form’s founding fathers.
By Jesse Green
Moses Ingram makes her New York stage debut in Dominique Morisseau’s love poem to Nina Simone.
By Juan A. Ramírez
Two deadly standoffs at Wounded Knee are the bookends for a show that manages to narrate a violent history with moments of light and humor.
By Naveen Kumar
Worldwide colony collapse is the subject of a bright, strange, upbeat thought experiment about insect hives, and our own.
By Jesse Green
Gabby Beans shines as a time-hopping protagonist tracing her trauma in Rachel Bonds’s slip-slidey new Off Broadway play.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
A tender reimagining of “The Wizard of Oz” follows Dora, an angsty American teenager who initially rejects her family’s Mexican heritage.
By Laurel Graeber
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