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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
Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James are superb as a midcentury-modern couple free-falling into addiction in Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s musical.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
The Encores! series returns with a concert staging of the 1959 musical, which also stars the very funny Harriet Harris and Michael Urie.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
Heather Christian’s latest exploration of the religious sublime is a musical spectacle about the often overlooked “caregivers and makers.”
By Jesse Green
Making a blistering Broadway debut, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s 2014 play about the legacies of hatred feels like a new work entirely.
By Jesse Green
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The family-friendly circus troupe Phare highlights the richness of Cambodian culture with gravity-defying acrobatics, Indigenous music and rousing choreography.
By Brittani Samuel
An exquisite revival of Brian Friel’s 1980 play at the Irish Repertory Theater is the first of three there by the Irish author.
By Naveen Kumar
This captivating adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s novel, a collaboration with Handspring Puppet Company, follows a man and his ailing mother during a civil war in South Africa.
By Naveen Kumar
The extraordinary within the everyday: A holiday season rite returns with aerialists, trapeze acts, funny clowns (really!) and cotton candy too.
By Alexis Soloski
In the first Broadway revival of the Monty Python musical, the old bits are verbatim but the clowns are running the circus.
By Jesse Green
Qui Nguyen’s crowd-tickling comedy about a Vietnamese family in Arkansas mixes hip-hop and martial arts with soapy twists and turns.
By Naveen Kumar
Hansol Jung’s new play riffs on Greek dramas, the Restoration comedy “The Country Wife” and Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America.”
By Laura Collins-Hughes
Barrie Kosky’s Berlin production of the 1975 musical adds a touch of burlesque and a dash of Bertolt Brecht.
By A.J. Goldmann
David Adjmi’s riveting new play, with songs by Will Butler, is about a ’70s band that nearly destroys itself making an epochal album.
By Jesse Green
This creepy Halloween show is the latest visual feat from Joshua William Gelb, presented by Theater in Quarantine and produced in a closet.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
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The playwright York Walker makes a promising New York debut at Roundabout Underground.
By Juan A. Ramírez
This inventive, beguiling and not quite fully solved puzzle of a show is a worthy and loving farewell to the great musical dramatist.
By Jesse Green
This alluring spectacle at Stage 42, which aims to dazzle audiences 8 and older, makes powerful statements about the rights of both animals and human beings.
By Laurel Graeber
A stripped-back revival in London, directed by Jamie Lloyd, brings the classic musical into the present day, and gives Scherzinger a career-defining performance.
By Matt Wolf
An exploration of how faith intersects with Black womanhood, through a mix of music, movement, ritual and poetry.
By Maya Phillips
Jonathan Groff, supported by Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, is thrillingly fierce in the first convincing revival of the cult flop Sondheim musical.
By Jesse Green
A new play by Alexander Zeldin recreates his mother’s winding, painful path to a life of her own.
By Laura Cappelle
Jocelyn Bioh’s Broadway playwriting debut, set in a Harlem hair braiding shop, is a hot and hilarious workplace sitcom.
By Jesse Green
Ossie Davis’s 1961 play is no period piece, as a blazing and hilarious revival starring Leslie Odom Jr. testifies.
By Jesse Green
Emma Horwitz makes her Off Broadway debut with an adventurous retelling of a devotional play from the 10th century.
By Rhoda Feng
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In Max Wolf Friedlich’s nimble play, a crisis therapist tries to connect with a tech worker who is broken by her profession.
By Juan A. Ramírez
Theresa Rebeck’s play, a Primary Stages production at 59E59 Theaters, is a beautifully acted dramedy exploring the truth and warped perceptions of it.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
In her new play, Christina Masciotti turns a keen gaze on an immigrant tailor who has woven her business into the fabric of a neighborhood.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
Illness is no metaphor, and neither is pleasure, in Annie Baker’s weird and great new play set at a fasting clinic.
By Jesse Green
A joyful, bumpy musical version of Shakespeare’s late romance closes the Delacorte Theater before an 18-month renovation.
By Jesse Green
A London revival of the hit musical brings extra warmth to the story of a woman in psychological free fall.
By Matt Wolf
Barrington Stage Company’s revival of the 1998 musical brings vocal luster and newfound relevance to the story of a songwriter’s near-death experience.
By Jesse Green
In a revival of Lucy Prebble’s play at the National Theater, in London, Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell are terrific as a couple who meet during a pharmaceutical trial.
By Houman Barekat
Old relationships bend, then break, in Danny Tejera’s finely detailed character study of languishing jet-set twentysomethings.
By Juan A. Ramírez
In a musical based on works by the creator of Captain Underpants, an anthropomorphic feline urges young swamp dwellers (and the polliwogs in the audience) to let their creativity run wild.
By Laurel Graeber
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The Goodspeed Opera House takes on Charles Walters’s 1950 film with zest and humor.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
The writer Candrice Jones and the director Lileana Blain-Cruz show a mastery of the game in this play about a girls’ basketball team in rural Arkansas.
By Naveen Kumar
The Classical Theater of Harlem follows up last year’s winning “Twelfth Night” with a sequel that feels like a sweet summer frolic.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
Is it a stand-up act or a morality play? Either way, Alex Edelman’s look at race, religion and the limits of empathy is at home on Broadway.
By Jesse Green
In a big-hearted musical about a 1970s Belfast record store owner and the punk movement he nurtured, music is the real hero.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
Toheeb Jimoh, Emmy-nominated for “Ted Lasso,” takes on Romeo in a riveting production from the British director Rebecca Frecknall.
By Matt Wolf
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