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Learning another language is like becoming another person.                                                                                  Haruki Murakami Marjan Neshat (Marjan) As tedious as it may sound to sit through a term of English classes in…

The Broadway premiere of A STRANGE LOOP,  Michael R. Jackson’s  Pulitzer-Prize winning musical,  directed by  Stephen Brackett and choreographed by  Raja Feather Kelly is coming up — previews will begin at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre (149 W 45th St) on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, and opening night is set for Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Tickets available at Telecharge.com (212-239-6200). For more…

VIRGIN PLAY GETS TESTED AT IRISH REP Ciara Ní­ Chuirc’s new play Made By God, now being given its world premiere run by Irish Rep, is described in the show’s promotional materials thusly: Made by God features the true and tragic story of the 1984 death of Ann Lovett and her newborn baby in Granard,…

A 1913 PLAY IN MINT CONDITION In a coal-mining district in the Erewash Valley of the English Midlands, lives a young miner named Luther. Luther has been married to his hyper-critical bride Minnie for all of seven weeks. Luther’s father is dead but his domineering mother, Mrs. Gascoyne, is very much alive. His younger brother…

MUSIC MAN HATH CHARMS TO SOOTH THE SAVAGE BREAST “Oh, there’s nothing halfway about the Iowa way to treat you, when we treat you, which we may not do at all” sing the taciturn and straight-shooting citizens of River City, Iowa, shortly after the curtain rises on Meredith Willson’s classic Americana musical The Music Man….

BILLY CRYSTAL WILL STAR IN THE NEW MUSICAL COMEDY MR. SATURDAY NIGHT BOX OFFICE OPENS TODAY, FEB 21, 2022

BLACK NO MORE: A NEW MUSICAL George Schuyler’s classic novel Black No More — written during the famous Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s — is a funny, absurdist, searing indictment of American White Supremacy ideology. It also pointedly skewers hierarchies based on physical appearance created during American slavery that privileged a white, European…

MAC’S MULTI-TALENTED TRIBE AND FABULOUS PHILOSOPHERS HANG AT HERE Taylor Mac is nothing if not creative. Perhaps oppressively so. Mac’s latest on-stage extravaganza is titled The Hang and is currently hanging out at HERE Arts Center in New York City. It offers such a clever torrent of color, music, intellect, dance, joy, design, queerness, ideas,…

CONRAD RICAMORA OFFERS A NEW SEYMOUR Audrey II is back and New York’s got……Him? Her? It? Hard to tell, especially since this giant-alien-Venus Flytrap has an insatiable appetite for human flesh. And a great singing voice. And impeccable comic timing. And an energetic new production from which the plant continues to grow and grow –…

STARRING DANIEL CRAIG AND RUTH NEGGA DIRECTED BY TONY AWARD WINNER SAM GOLD PERFORMANCES BEGIN TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2022 OPENS ON THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2022 AT THE LONGACRE Tickets are now on sale for DANIEL CRAIG’s Â return to Broadway as Macbeth and Â RUTH NEGGA’s Â Broadway debut as Lady Macbeth in the all-new production of Â MACBETH Â on Broadway by visiting Â Telecharge. The…

BRINGING BACK BYRNE Talking Heads superstar David Byrne re-opened his acclaimed rock spectacle American Utopia  last September 17 at Broadway’s St. James Theatre after the pandemic shutdown. I caught this joyous and resilient concert last December and loved it (this show never closed during COVID’s Omicron surge). This is truly a community event, and the packed…

A PRAYER GRANTED FOR THE THEATER “Exquisite” is probably a devalued and over-used descriptive at this point is our society. However, Manhattan Theatre Club’s current production of Prayer for the French Republic deserves this particular adjective. Painstakingly written by Joshua Harmon, this three-hour exploration of Jewish identity and human cruelty via multiple generations of a…

BEAT IT, NAYSAYERS; THIS SHOW WANTS TO BE STARTIN’ SOMETHIN’ The new Broadway musical at the Neil Simon Theatre far exceeds a mere revue of Michael Jackson’s iconic music and performance choreography. From the first scene in a rehearsal studio, a week prior to the opening of the “Dangerous Tour,” Myles Frost enters fully possessing…

A GREAT CREW OF ACTORS BRING THIS SKELETON TO LIFE There is a family onstage in Dominique Morisseau’s expertly crafted new play Skeleton Crew, which had its Broadway opening at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater last night. There’s a focused, worried Father figure — Reggie. There’s an experienced, solid Mother or maybe Grandmother or maybe…