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  • Broadway Review: BUG (Manhattan Theatre Club)

    By Carol Rocamora | January 12, 2026
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    There could have been a better time to bring back Bug, Tracy Letts’s disturbing drama about paranoia and its devastating consequences. We have enough to be paranoid about these days, don’t you think? Nevertheless, Manhattan Theatre Club has revived Letts’s 1996 psychological thriller—this is the 2020 production direct from Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago—starring Letts’s…

  • Off-Broadway Review: ANNA CHRISTIE (St. Ann’s Warehouse)

    By Carol Rocamora | December 23, 2025
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    ANNA CHRISTIE RIDES THE TIDE AGAIN An early O’Neill, boldly staged, will sweep you into a fog-shrouded world of fate, forgiveness, and hard-won grace. “A rich and salty play,” wrote one critic of Anna Christie when it premiered in New York in 1921. “Written with abundant imagination,” claimed another. Yet a third critic called the…

  • Broadway Review: CHESS (Imperial Theatre)

    By Carol Rocamora | December 5, 2025
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    WHEN SUPERPOWERS SING Broadway’s new revival of Chess thrills more than it confounds ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ “Welcome to our Cold War Musical!” That greeting — from the narrator (aka Arbiter) of Chess, the famed rock opera now being revived on Broadway with a starry cast and new book…

  • Broadway Review: LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD (Booth)

    By Carol Rocamora | November 15, 2025
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    WHERE LONELINESS ECHOES AND CONSTELLATIONS ARE CALLING She gets up at dawn and is asleep by eight. She lives alone and doesn’t like people. Nobody at the hospital (where she’s worked for forty years) likes her. She watches TV and complains non-stop. In short, she’s thoroughly disagreeable. But what can you do if she’s your…

  • Off-Broadway Review: ARCHDUKE (Roundabout Theatre Company at Laura Pels)

    By Carol Rocamora | November 13, 2025
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    THE SANDWICHES THAT COULD HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD A wickedly funny revision of history delights even as it faces catastrophe All they ever wanted was a sandwich… That’s the revised motivation for the young Bosnian conspirators who plotted to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in 1914. It’s posited by playwright Rajiv…

  • Broadway Review: RAGTIME (Lincoln Center Theater)

    Promotional poster for Ragtime the Musical with Statue of Liberty.
    By Carol Rocamora | October 17, 2025
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    THE DREAM REBORN: RAGTIME AWAKENS THE AMERICAN SOUL A momentous musical about American history, a momentous production in Lincoln Center Theater history, Ragtime, which opened last night, is both – and more, far more. Nick Barrington, Colin Donnell Lear deBessonet has chosen to begin her tenure as the new Artistic Director of this great American…

  • Off-Broadway Review: ORATORIO FOR LIVING THINGS (Signature Theatre)

    Poster for a play titled 'Laboratorio for Living Things' by Heather Christian.
    By Carol Rocamora | October 16, 2025
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    When Time Becomes Music: Heather Christian’s Oratorio for Living Things Transcends the Human Scale When the live performance of an artistic work is greater in vision and scope than anything you’ve ever beheld, it’s no surprise that you’re in awe, you’re overwhelmed… and you’re humbled. Barrie Lobo McLain That was my response in watching Oratorio…

  • Off-Broadway Review: FIVE MODELS IN RUINS, 1981 (LCT3 at the Claire Tow Theatre, Lincoln Center)

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    By Carol Rocamora | May 13, 2025
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    THE BACCHAE WEAR BRIDAL You remember the Bacchae – don’t you ? –  those wild women of Thebes in Euripides’s ancient drama who, transformed by Dionysus, terrorized Pentheus’s kingdom with their orgiastic violence? Well, they’re back, raging again, in Caitlin Saylor Sterling’s strange and exotic new play at Lincoln Center, Five Models in Ruins, 1981….

  • Broadway Review: GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (Winter Garden Theatre)

    Promotional poster for 'Good Night, Good Luck' starring George Clooney.
    By Carol Rocamora | April 15, 2025
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    GEORGE CLOONEY’S SENSE OF DECENCY Where are our heroes when we need them?! It takes a Hollywood actor to give us one in these traumatic times. Trouble is, that hero comes from the 1950s. George Clooney George Clooney has had a lifelong respect for truth, justice, and “the facts.” Son of a news anchorman in…

  • London Theatre Review: THE YEARS (Harold Pinter Theatre)

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    By Carol Rocamora | March 15, 2025
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    LONDON THEATRES’ BOUNTIFUL OFFERINGS Spring may not have come yet, but it’s already high season for the London theatre. And it’s an exceptional one. Of the eight productions I attended last week (two Shakespeare, two Chekhov, two history plays, one docudrama, one feminist work), all have recently opened and all are enlightening and memorable. Two…

  • London Theatre Review: KYOTO (Royal Shakespeare Company)

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    By Carol Rocamora | March 14, 2025
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    LONDON THEATRES’ BOUNTIFUL OFFERINGS Spring may not have come yet, but it’s already high season for the London theatre. And it’s an exceptional one. Of the eight productions I attended last week (two Shakespeare, two Chekhov, two history plays, one docudrama, one feminist work), all have recently opened and all are enlightening and memorable. Two…

  • Off-Broadway Review: DAKAR 2000 (Manhattan Theatre Club World Premiere by Rajiv Joseph at New York City Center)

    A woman stands confidently with 'DAKAR 200' in the background.
    By Carol Rocamora | February 27, 2025
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    A THILLER IN REVERSE “It’s the story of a kid who just wanted to make a difference…” But what price does he pay for it? Boubs (short for Boubakar), the narrator of Rajiv Joseph’s gripping new play Dakar 2000 who utters that introductory line, is a devoted Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal. It’s December 1999,…

  • Broadway Review: CULT OF LOVE (Second Stage at Helen Hayes)

    A Christmas tree on fire with text promoting 'Out of Love' by Headland and Trip Cullman.
    By Carol Rocamora | January 5, 2025
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    All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way… When Tolstoy wrote that line in Anna Karenina, he hadn’t met the Dahls yet – that unforgettable family in Leslye Headland’s Cult of Love, exploding nightly at the Helen Hayes on Broadway. If only he could have observed them at their…

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