Beyond Broadway
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A Beyond Broadway Bonus!
You’ll find a few Broadway reviews and Features interspersed here, so don’t be confused! Feel free to click on those items as well.
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“Intríngulis” at Theatre Row
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsCarlo Albán brings his natural gifts as a storyteller, singer and observer of humankind to Intríngulis, his one-man performance piece…
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"A Night of Chekhov" at Actors Temple Theatre
Beyond Broadway
1.5 out of 5 starsDuring the three one-act plays that make up "A Night of Chekhov," characters protest repeatedly that they can't stand shouting. If only the actors and director had heeded those words…
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“||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||” at Vineyard Theatre
Beyond Broadway
2 out of 5 starsYou can appreciate the novel approach Eisa Davis takes in “||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||,” a work revolving around four teenage girls at a summer music program. But that doesn’t necessarily make for compelling theater…
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"This Is Not About Me" at 59E59 Theaters
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsA British import — part of 59E59’s “Brits Off Broadway” series — wows with its distinctive style…
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“Well, I’ll Let You Go” at Studio Seaview
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 stars“For me, 60, 70 years is not enough.” This line from Bubba Weiler’s “Well, I’ll Let You Go” is so romantic that Studio Seaview, the play’s presenter, even sells coffee mugs in the lobby emblazoned with it…
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“Cable Street” at 59E59 Theaters
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 stars"Cable Street" somehow combines the grand, rebellious energy of "Les Miserables" and "Newsies" with a touch of "Hamilton"-esque hip-hop, despite its cast of just 13 actors playing multiple roles…
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“Nicole Travola Is Doing Alright” at Soho Playhouse
Beyond Broadway
1.5 out of 5 starsNicole Travolta is doing alright -- hence, the name of her show. But how she got there is another story, and that’s the gist of this confessional comedic endeavor…
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“Lost in Del Valle” at Soho Playhouse
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsNed Van Zandt has a story to tell. Make that several stories. It’s all revealed in “Lost in Del Valle,” his brilliantly engaging performance piece…
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“Kenrex” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 stars"Kenrex" is both a one-man show and flashy theatrical spectacle -- and it’s thoroughly enjoyable on both fronts…
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“Rheology” at Playwrights Horizons
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsIn "Rheology," the playwright/director's physicist mother co-stars with him, brilliantly playing herself -- and that's not even the most remarkable thing happening onstage…
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“The Adding Machine” at the Theater at St. Clement’s
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsAlthough it’s more than a century old, Elmer L. Rice’s “The Adding Machine” isn’t showing its age in this shockingly prescient and urgently necessary new production…
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“The Approach” at Irish Rep
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 reviewsn Mark O'Rowe's "The Approach," the plot emerges only through an intricately crafted spiral of coffee-shop chats. Three women with mutual history meet in pairs over time, sharing their latest travails…
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"The Pushover” at Chain Theatre
Beyond Broadway
2 out of 5 starsIn “The Pushover,” John Patrick Shanley serves up a love triangle of bad girls -- make that bad women -- and a vulnerable chef who falls prey to their machinations…
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“Monte Cristo” at Theatre at St. Jean’s
Beyond Broadway
2 out of 5 starsAlthough Alexandre Dumas may not be rolling over in his grave, he couldn’t be thrilled with this adaptation of his literary epic…
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"Gotta Dance” at Stage 42
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsAn homage to Broadway choreography…
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“Seagull: True Story” at the Public Theater
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsThere’s no denying the ambition behind “Seagull: True Story,” a sprawling, autobiographical account of Russian-born director Alexander Molochnikov’s attempt to build a new life for himself in New York…
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"Heartbreak Hotel” at DR2 Theatre
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 starsTrue to its title, there’s plenty of heartbreak in Karin McCracken’s “Heartbreak Hotel”…
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“Blood/Love” at Theater 555
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 starsSelf-described vampire pop opera “Blood/Love” is part flashy arena concert and part sexy punk nightclub -- with some plastic fangs as the cherry on top…
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"My Joy Is Heavy" at New York Theatre Workshop
Beyond Broadway
1 out of 5 starsIn “My Joy Is Heavy,” the husband-and-wife musical duo of Shaun and Abigail Bengson share the pain and grief they experienced when Abigail suffered a miscarriage…
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"Ulster American" at Irish Rep
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4.5 out of 5 starst’s remarkable how much ground David Ireland covers in “Ulster American” -- from Hollywood egos to identity politics to the Northern Irish conflict known as The Troubles…
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"Calf Scramble" at 59E59 Theaters
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsIn "Calf Scramble," five actresses play teenage calf wranglers coming of age in Texas – and they double as their calves…
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"Trash" at Perelman Performing Arts Center
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsWritten by its two lead performers, both deaf, “Trash” tells a story about feuding roommates, but its plot becomes secondary to powerful efforts to make the play resonate equally for deaf and hearing audiences…
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"The Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits" at Soho Playhouse
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 starsTrue to its title, the play reaches an eventual (and erotic) climax…
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"Bughouse" at Vineyard Theatre
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsThe chaotic life of reclusive "outsider" artist Henry Darger seems unthinkable to dramatize. Yet in "Bughouse," accomplished director/choreographer Martha Clarke has made it work almost magically…
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"You Got Older" at Cherry Lane Theatre
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsIt’s a play with true-to-life characters but not much of a story to tell, and yet it’s also a play where the “story” is in the tiny details of how those people live…
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"Cold War Choir Practice" at MCC Theater
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 starsRo Reddick’s “Cold War Choir Practice” is an ambitiously odd play, reminiscent of a Wes Anderson film in its stylized storytelling…
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"The Unknown" at Studio Seaview
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 stars“The Unknown” couldn’t be a more apt title because, ultimately, after the full 75- minutes of David Cale’s thriller, you won’t know the answer to the play’s central mystery…
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"Spare Parts" at Theatre Row
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsDavid J. Glass’ “Spare Parts” is a harrowing play dealing with cloning and, yes, using spare parts (or blood) to let a human live longer…
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"Burnout Paradise" at Astor Place Theater
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 starsFour Australians on treadmills present a potent, energetic and dark metaphor for human existence in “Burnout Paradise”…
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"Spread" at INTAR Theatre
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsSchool lunch may not be very satisfying, but “Spread,” centering on four Latino high-school freshmen meeting over their midday meal, is a delicious feast of a play…
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“Bigfoot!” at New York City Center
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsWhat has musical theater been missing? Cryptozoology! Enter “Bigfoot!,” a goofy romp through Muddirt -- a fictional town brimming with nuclear waste, toxic chemicals and 1980s Reaganomics…
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“The Reservoir” at the Atlantic Theater
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4 out of 5 starsJake Brasch’s witty, tender and razor-sharp “The Reservoir” -- the playwright’s Off Broadway debut -- delves into a college student’s return home to seek sobriety and purpose…
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"Marcel on the Train" at Classic Stage Company (CSC)
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsIf all you know about Marcel Marceau is how he mimed his way to fame, “Marcel on the Train” offers a telling window into a chapter from his life…
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Jeff Harnar’s “Blame It on My Youth” at Don’t Tell Mama
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4 out of 5 stars
A cabaret performer revisits the place where it all started for him… -
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey at Barclays Center
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4 out of 5 stars
Three rings instead of one? Ringling has redefined its show… -
“Hate Radio” at St. Ann’s Warehouse
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3.5 out of 5 stars
A chilling look at the 1994 Rwandan genocide… -
“The Tragedy of Coriolanus” presented by Theatre for a New Audience
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsThe Bard gets a radical makeover in this Brooklyn staging…
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“The Dinosaurs” at Playwrights Horizons
Beyond Broadway
2 out of 5 starsA 12-step meeting done as drama…
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"I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical" at Soho Playhouse
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 stars“I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical” is essentially a revue about the travails working in musical theater, affectionately roasting one aspect after another…
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"Making a Show of Myself" at Irish Rep
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsMary Kate O Flanagan loves to tell a good story – in fact, make that six stories. Her one-woman show encompasses that many tales, drawn from her life and Irish heritage…
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“The Other Place” at The Shed
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3.5 out of 5 stars
Alexander Zeldin’s take on “Antigone” chronicles a family trying to come to terms with the passing of one of their own… -
"Data" at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsMatthew Libby’s “Data” is a remarkably solid, smart drama, especially for a playwright making his Off Broadway debut…
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"Hans Litten: The Jew Who Cross-Examined Hitler" at Theatre Row
Beyond Broadway
2 out of 5 stars"Hans Litten: The Jew Who Cross-Examined Hitler" unearths an intriguing historical episode with resonance in today’s political climate…
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"and Her Children" at SoHo Playhouse
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3.5 out of 5 stars…Rosie Glen-Lambert and Hailey McAfee’s “and her Children” tackles a number of tough topics: gun ownership, school shootings, homophobia and, most critically, how a mother can simultaneously support and fail her children…
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"Ulysses" at the Public Theater
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsCan James Joyce's famously difficult, rambling novel "Ulysses'' work on stage? Elevator Repair Service's production brings it to chaotic, rambunctious life…
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"Watch Me Walk" presented by Soho Rep
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsAnne Gridley’s “Watch Me Walk” is many things at once: a daringly comedic lesson in what it means to be disabled, a powerful advocacy statement and an ambitious performance-art piece…
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"The Disappear" at Audible's Minetta Lane Theater
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 stars"The Disappear" crackles with sharp wit, which playwright/director Erica Schmidt deploys to slice open the fraught dynamics of her Hollywood-elite characters…
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“Bug” presented by the Manhattan Theatre Club
Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsAn early Tracy Letts work aims to get under your skin…
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Our Top 10 of 2025: Justin McCallum’s List
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Our Top 10 of 2025: Adam Z. Horvath’s List
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Our Top 10 of 2025: Ryan Kinkade’s List
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Our Top 10 of 2025: Charles Passy's List
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"Picnic at Hanging Rock" at Greenwich House Theater
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsA new musical that’s operatic, understated and spooky all at once…
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"Tartuffe" at the New York Theater Workshop
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsFollowing André de Shields' romp through a reinvention of Molière's farce seen earlier this season, Matthew Broderick headlines an even newer version…
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"Anna Christie" at St. Ann's Warehouse
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsFierce performances power director Thomas Kail's revival of this Eugene O'Neill work…
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"Marjorie Prime" at Helen Hayes Theater
Broadway
3 out of 5 starsIt was all kinds of smart for 2nd Stage to revive Jordan Harrison’s play in which family members try to forge connections with AI-powered holograms of their deceased loved ones…
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"It's a Wonderful Life!" at Irish Rep
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3.5 out of 5 starsThe classic holiday movie but done as a radio drama…
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"The Baker's Wife" at Classic Stage Company
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsIt took Stephen Schwartz and collaborators 49 years of reworking to debut this sumptuous score in New York…
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"Kyoto" at Lincoln Center Theater
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsThe incremental, interminable rounds of climate-change conferences that produced the inconclusive Kyoto Protocols shouldn't work as theater, but “Kyoto” is funny, disturbing and profound…
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Commentary: A Tale of Two Musicals
Why “Two Strangers “Carry a Cake Across New York)” succeeds — and why “Queen of Versailles” didn’t
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"Gruesome Playground Injuries" at Lucille Lortel Theatre
Beyond Broadway
1.5 out of 5 starsA revival of the two-hander chronicling a sorta platonic/sorta romantic relationship — with plenty of gruesome injuries included…
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“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” at New World Stages
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4 out of 5 starsThis revival of finds the musical in as precociously ingenious form as ever…
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"Oedipus" at Studio 54
Broadway
4 out of 5 starsWriter/director Robert Icke converts Sophocles' 2,500-year-old play into a modern political thriller:..
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"Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)” at the Longacre Theatre
Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsA two-character musical that’s equal parts ode to the Big Apple and romantic fantasy…
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"Laowang” at 59E59 Theaters
Beyond Broadway
2.5 out of 5 starsPlaywright Alex Lin refashions Shakespeare's tragedy into the modern story of a grandmother with three heirs vying to take control of her legacy…
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"This World of Tomorrow" at The Shed
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3 out of 5 starsTom Hanks’ play travels back and forth between the future and the past — specifically, the 1939 World’s Fair…
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"Chess" at the Imperial Theatre
Broadway
4 out of 5 starsThe problem-child musical returns with a vastly improved book and a stellar cast…
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"44 The Musical" at the Daryl Roth Theatre
Beyond Broadway
2.5 out of 5 starsAn over-the-top satire about the Obama presidency…
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"Rob Lake Magic" at the Broadhurst Theatre
Broadway
1.5 out of 5 starsA genial, kid-friendly magician makes his way to Broadway, but with a show that leaves much to be desired…
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"Richard II" at Astor Place Theatre
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsCraig Baldwin’s adaptation of the Shakespeare play is set in a brutalist-designed 1980s world…
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"The Queen of Versailles" at St. James Theatre
Broadway
1 out of 5 starsYou can say this much for “Queen of Versailles”: It makes “Tammy Faye,” last season’s bomb of a musical, look like a work of genius…
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"Queens" presented by the Manhattan Theatre Club
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2 out of 5 starsA play chronicles the story of immigrant women living in a basement apartment in the titular borough…
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"Reunions" at New York City Center
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4 out of 5 starsAn ambitious musical adapts two century-old one-act plays…
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"Prince Faggot" at Studio Seaview
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3.5 out of 5 starsA play that imagines the future for a queer British royal…
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"Messy White Gays" at New 42 Studios
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsAn irreverent, lewd and self-aware new comedy that skewers problematic tendencies of its titular crowd…
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"Endgame" at the Irish Arts Center
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4.5 out of 5 starsA Beckett revival that should convert skeptics while enchanting fans…
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"Liberation" at the James Earl Jones Theatre
Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsBess Wohl’s play explores the women’s rights movement of the ‘70s – what it accomplished and what it didn’t…
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"Little Bear Ridge Road" at the Booth Theatre
Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsA wondrously realistic play that explores the bond between a cancer-stricken woman and her struggling-to-find-himself nephew…
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"Romy & Michelle" at Stage 42
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2.5 out of 5 starsAn attempt to slavishly copy the cult-classic movie it's based on…
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"Beau the Musical" at St. Luke's Theater
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsA terrific original rock score serves a meaningful stage drama in this story of a bullied gay teenager finding his outlet in music…
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"Tartuffe" at the House of the Redeemer
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsA wondrously audacious makeover of Molière's Baroque satire…
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"Dreadful Episodes" at 59E59 Theaters
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 starsA series of creepy, macabre and sometimes uproariously funny sketches in homage to the creepy, macabre illustrations of Edward Gorey…
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"Other" at Greenwich House Theatre
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsTony winner Ari’el Stachel is an actor with considerable talent – and a man with considerable problems. Those two aspects come together in this solo piece…
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"Ragtime" at Lincoln Center Theater
Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsJoshua Henry and Cassie Levy, reprising their roles from the 2024 City Center Encores production in this revival transfer, are so strong their Tonys may as well be engraved now…
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"Let's Love!" at the Atlantic Theater Company
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 starsEthan Coen’s quirky play has its charms, but it’s no “Big Lebowski”…
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"Amaze" at New World Stages
Beyond Broadway
2.5 out of 5 starsJamie Allan is quite the skilled magician, but his plodding show falls short of the title…
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"Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God" at Playwrights Horizons
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsJen Tullock and her co-author Frank Winters seek to demystify stereotypes about the queer experience of coming out and leaving an evangelical family…
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"The Other Americans" at The Public Theater
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 starsInstead of “Death of a Salesman,” John Leguizamo offers us the travails of a laundryman…
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"Crooked Cross" at Theatre Row
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsA cautionary drama of a family tragically fracturing as members increasingly align with Hitler’s fascist regime…
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"The Least Problematic Woman in the World" at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsThe tongue-in-cheek autobiographical dramatization of Dylan Mulvaney's journey…
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"This Much I Know" at 59E59 Theaters
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsAs in his Tony-winning “Eureka Day,” playwright Jonathan Spector manages to celebrate humanity while skewering human nature…
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"Torera" at WP Theater
Beyond Broadway
1.5 out of 5 starsA ham-fisted (or should I say bull-fisted?) play about a female bullfighter…
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"Punch" presented by the Manhattan Theatre Club
Broadway
4 out of 5 starsA story of redemption, involving a British man who commits manslaughter and serves a prison sentence but finds his way back to society…
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"Caroline" at MCC Theater
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 starsPreston Max Allen’s drama tracks a family’s story across three generations…
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"And Then We Were No More" at La MaMa
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsA rigorously crafted play, by prolific character actor and writer Tim Blake Nelson, that’s a loose update of Kafka's “In the Penal Colony”…
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"Masquerade" at former Lee's Art Shop building
Beyond Broadway
5 out of 5 starsThis immersive version of “Phantom of the Opera” may actually be the show’s ideal iteration…
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"The Honey Trap" at Irish Rep
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsA drama that examines the period of conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles — and much more…
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"This Is Government" at 59E59 Theaters
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsA kind of comedic mystery illustrates the disturbing distance between our elected representatives and those they represent…
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"The Porch on Windy Hill" at Urban Stages
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsNot for bluegrass fans only…
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"Saturday Church" at New York Theatre Workshop
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsA telling musical about a Black young man’s journey to embrace his queer identity…
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"Mexodus" at Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsA hip hop-inflected history lesson that’s a true theatrical heir to “Hamilton”…
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"Art" at the Music Box theater
Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsA profound statement on friendship, personal identity and, yes, art…
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"Twelth Night" at Central Park's Delacorte Theater
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsThe Delacorte Theater reopens (yay!) with a star-studded production of Shakespeare’s screwball comedy…
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"She Loves Me" at Bucks County Playhouse
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsThe “other” Bock and Harnick clasic musical is brought back to life…
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Jeff Ross' "Take a Banana for the Ride" at the Nederlander Theatre
Broadway
3 out of 5 starsThe veteran comedian shares his bittersweet life story…
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"In the Shadow of Her Father" at 59E59 Theaters
Beyond Broadway
2.5 out of 5 starsA drama traces the relationship between an overprotective, alcoholic father and his adopted Lebanese daughter…
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"Joy" at Laura Pels Theater
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 starsA big-hearted musical about the mop inventor Joy Mangano
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"Ava: The Secret Conversations" at New York City Center
Beyond Broadway
2.5 out of 5 starsElizabeth McGovern portrays the late, legendary actress Ava Gardner…
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"Ginger Twinsies" at the Orpheum Theatre
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 starsA sendup of the 1998 Lindsay Lohan film, “The Parent Trap”…
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"Lord Nil" at Stage 42
Beyond Broadway
0.5 out of 5 starsAn escape artist can’t escape the fact his show just doesn’t work…
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"Rolling Thunder" at New World Stages
Beyond Broadway
1 out of 5 starsAn Aussie-created jukebox musical exploring the Vietnam War era…
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Josh Sharp's "ta-da!" at Greenwich House Theater
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsA coming-out story unlike any other…
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"Polishing Shakespeare" at 59E59 Theaters
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsA broad satire of modern theater production…
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"Heathers" at New World Stages
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsA revival of “Heathers” bring the msuical and the 1989 cult-classic film back to life…
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"The Weir" at Irish Rep
Beyond Broadway
5 out of 5 starsConor McPherson’s classic play about barflies sharing stories is brought brilliantly back to life…
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"Open" at the WP Theatre
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 starsCrystal Skillman’s play reflects on the challenges of being part of an openly queer couple…
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"Lowcountry" at Atlantic Theater
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 starsA sexually charged date-night story…
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"Duke & Roya" at Lucille Lortel Theatre
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsA romantic tale between a rapper and an Afghan woman who works as a U.S. military translator…
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"Bear Grease" at St. Luke's Theatre
Beyond Broadway
2 out of 5 starsA reinterpretation of the ‘50s-themed musical “Grease” through an indigenous people’s lens…
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"Kafka" at 59E59 Theaters
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 starsLess a play than a tumultuous rotation of reveries from various historical figures connected to Franz Kafka…
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"Eurydice" at Signature Theatre
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsPlaywright Sarah Ruhl reorients the Greek myth of Orpheus toward his bride’s journey through the Underworld…
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"Call Me Izzy" at Studio 54 theater
Broadway
4 out of 5 starsJean Smart hits all the right notes in this one-person showcase about a rural Louisiana woman trying to survive an abusive marriage…
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"Angry Alan" at Studio Seaview
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsJohn Krasinski stars in this look down the rabbit hole of white-male rage…
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"Ceremonies in Dark Old Men" at St. Clement's
Beyond Broadway
4.5 out of 5 starsA worthy revival of Lonne Elder III’s richly symbolic 1969 drama about a Black family…
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"Pride and Prejudice" at 59E59 Theaters
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsA version of the Jane Austen novel with three actors playing 18 parts…
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"Leni's Last Lament" at Paradise Factory
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsA portrayal of Leni Riefenstahl, the celebrated German filmmaker and Hitler propagandist…
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"The Imaginary Invalid" at New World Stages
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsA rollicking version of the Moliere farce…
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"Lights Out" at New York Theatre Workshop
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsThis look at Nat King Cole is no jukebox-musical biography…
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"Goddess" at The Public Theater
Beyond Broadway
4 out of 5 starsA new musical about the power of music itself
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"Bus Stop" at Classic Stage Company
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsA revival of William Inge’s midcentury drama with an all-Asian cast…
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“Parrots at the Pagoda” at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
Beyond Broadway
2 out of 5 starsA “fantasía” examining and interpreting the life of Johnny Rodríguez, a Puerto Rican singer, musician and drag pioneer…
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"The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse" at Pershing Square Signature Center
Beyond Broadway
3 out of 5 starsA new musical follows three chronically online Gen-Z kids in 2025 searching for a forgotten Millennial pop princess…
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"The Black Wolfe Tone" at Irish Rep
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsA one-man performance piece explores mental illness and the struggle to come to terms with it…
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"The Last Laugh" at 59E59 Theaters
Beyond Broadway
3.5 out of 5 starsA look at three legendary British funnymen…
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“Wonderful Town” at New York City Center
Beyond Broadway
2.5 out of 5 starsWhy, oh why-oh did City Center Encores revive “Wonderful Town” so charmingly two decades ago, yet so awkwardly now?…
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“Hold me In the Water” at Playwrights Horizons
Beyond Broadway
5 out of 5 starsRyan J. Haddad’s solo play, “Hold Me in the Water” is a witty, tender tribute to first love, but from an often-overlooked perspective…
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“Just in Time” at Circle in the Square
Broadway
3 out of 5 starsOh, the shark bites -- at least in the first half of “Just in Time,” the bio-musical about Bobby Darin…