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For one night only on February 18, 2024, Manhattan Concert Productions (MCP) will present the next installment of its Broadway Series: The beloved musical Children of Eden. Broadway veterans Tony Yazbeck (stage director) and Kimberly Grigsby (music director) will lead the chorus of over 350 singers from across the United States, a star-studded cast and…

TENNESSEE RISES AGAIN The Laurie Beechman Theatre will host the Off-Broadway sensation,  TENNESSEE RISING: THE DAWN OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, a solo bio-play which examines the young playwright, written and performed by Jacob Storms. Directed by Alan Cumming, the show runs January 19 – February 2, 2024. Jacob Storms in Tennessee Rising (Max Ruby) What led Tennessee…

PRAY FOR THE FUTURE OF MUSICAL COMEDY Silly with an uncompelling story and no logical momentum, the new musical The Jerusalem Syndrome by York Theatre is surprisingly entertaining, but that’s due to the boffo cast and some bouncy Catskill revue-type songs. But it could have been so much more. Chandler Sinks and Company I say…

THE CONSEQUENCES OF GREED: MANAHATTA IN MANHATTAN Before getting into the play, it is important to know that Manahatta is written by playwright, activist and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle, who chose to follow the Native American tradition of storytelling, a very specific approach to dramaturgy. This oral tradition connects the past with the present becoming…

Odd Man Out  will return for strictly-limited nine-performance engagement at  HERE Arts Center from January 9-16, 2024.Odd Man Out  is an immersive experience in complete darkness in which the audience hears, smells, tastes, and feels the story of Alberto, a blind jazz musician traveling home from New York to Buenos Aires after decades of self-exile.The story is set…

TERRIFIC TURTURRO, MARVELOUS MARVEL, CUNNING KRAVITS AND RIOTOUS ROTH: DON’T MISS SABBATH’S THEATER The New Group‘s production of Sabbath’s Theater is a perfect adaptation of Philip Roth’s eponymous 1995 novel. This picaresque, transgressive tale of love and loss, life and death, takes place on Arnulfo Maldonado‘s black almost-bare stage with Jeff Croiter‘s very subtle lighting…

WE LIVE FOREVER When people think of Jews during the Holocaust (if they think of the Holocaust at all) they picture old and young passively assembling for deportation to concentration camps or lining up submissively to be sent to the gas chambers. But National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s newest offering Amid Falling Walls (Tvishn Falndike Vent)…

HARMONY IS A MUST-SEE I absolutely recommend Harmony, which made a transfer from Off-Broadway to Broadway after being tinkered with for years. Composer Barry Manilow  and librettist/lyricist  Bruce Sussman’s entertaining, surprisingly melancholic new musical depicts the real-life story of the all-male singing ensemble, the Comedian Harmonists. With buttery, close harmonies, an excellent cast, and Warren Carlyle‘s fluid…

NOT DEAD YET, BUT CLOSE Another revival of the sometimes sassily sophomoric Spamalot, or rather Monty Python’s Spamalot, slammed onto Broadway with a hot-to-trot, eager-beaver and carnivorously comic production filled with Python’s “take no prisoners” spoofery, where every gag, sight or sound is grist for a very silly mill, especially that flying cow. Michael Urie,…

St. Ann’s Warehouse will present the American premiere of  Life & Times of Michael K, the Baxter Theatre Centre / Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus  puppet theater production adapted from J.M. Coetzee’s 1983 award-winning novel. The show will run November 29-December 23. South African director Lara Foot adapted the novel in collaboration with  the Tony Award-winning  Handspring Puppet Company (War Horse). Life…

A GORGEOUS SHOW! Make Me Gorgeous! is the reworking of Mr. Madam by Donald Horn (aka Donnie) that premiered in Portand, Oregon, at triangle — one the oldest queer-identified theaters in the US — starring triple-threat Wade McCollum as Kenneth/Kate Marlowe. It now has a new name, but the same playwright and actor have brought…