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Off-Broadway Review: CIRQUE LE SWING (Immersive Supper Club Experience at Swing 46)
SWING ON IN! If you want to have the time of your life, you can’t do better than get a ticket for Cirque Le Swing, an immersive supper-club experience that combines a three-course dinner, jazz standards and acrobatics for an evening of sizzling entertainment. The audience arrives early for a Happy Hour at the bar….
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Off-Broadway Review: BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL (Encores! at New York City Center)
THIS BAT COMES OUT SWINGING Back in the nineties when tabloids ruled the world, there was one especially erroneous publication: Weekly World News. Presenting stories so outrageously false yet purported to be true, this particular rag was always good for a laugh. One such story that flew from their front page into a bemused pop…
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Dance Review: AN EVENING WITH JOHAN INGER (Gibney Company Up Close at New York Live Arts)
RUNNING IN PLACE AMONG THE STARS: A TRANSFIXING EVENING OF JOHAN INGER “I hate dance reviews,” my friend says to me during intermission. There are vertical trails on her cheeks, wet where her tears made slalom paths moments ago. “What could you say that would describe what we just saw?” I agree with her. I…
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Broadway Review: LIBERATION (James Earl Jones Theatre)
A TIME WARP TO THE 1970s WOMEN’S MOVEMENT, REFRACTED THROUGH 2025 EYES STILL SQUINTING TOWARDS EQUALITY “Why does it feel somehow like it’s all slipping away? And how do we get it back?” Susannah Flood That’s one of the questions posed about the condition of gender equality in 2025 America at the start of Liberation,…
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Concert Review: FROM STAGE TO SCREEN (The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall)
THE BRIDGE FROM THE GREAT WHITE WAY TO TINSELTOWN AND BACK AGAIN The New York Pops’ concert From Stage to Screen at Carnegie Hall promised a night of crossover magic last Friday—songs that leapt from Broadway to Hollywood and back again—and, under Steven Reineke’s spirited baton, it delivered in Technicolor. The evening’s guest artists, Hugh…
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Off-Broadway Review: HANNAH SENESH (National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene at Theater Row)
People, especially oppressed people, need martyrs. And Jews, although now considered part of the white establishment by some, have been oppressed for centuries. They have found their martyr in Hannah Senesh. She was a Hungarian poet and playwright, one of 37 Jewish volunteers from the Palestine Mandate who were trained by the British during World…
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Dance Review: GRAVITY (Ballet Preljocaj, The Joyce)
Angelin Preljocaj has carved out a daring niche in the dance world, fusing classical ballet with contemporary flair to invent a unique, bold alphabet of movements. Now, the US premiere of Ballet Preljocaj’s Gravity is at The Joyce Theater, and it is an amazing experience, a meditation on the invisible force that binds us all….
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Highly Recommended Broadway Streaming: PUNCH (Manhattan Theatre Club, League of Live Stream Theater)
A KNOCKOUT OF CONSCIENCE NOW BECOMES A STREAM OF CONSCIENCE Stage and Cinema called the visceral and relevant Broadway hit Punch “a knockout of conscience.” Now, Manhattan Theatre Club is giving audiences everywhere the chance to see what Broadway has been raving about when Punch streams live from the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre during its…
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Highly Recommended Concert: AZARASHVILI, MOZART & ELGAR (Orchestra for People at Merkin Hall, Nov 18)
Experience a powerful evening of music as Orchestra for People presents Azarashvili, Mozart and Elgar on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 7:30pm at NYC’s Merkin Hall. Under the baton of conductor Hahnsol Kim, the program introduces a vibrant dialogue between Georgian and European masterworks, featuring acclaimed soloists Sandro Sidamonidze (cello) and Sam Boutris (clarinet) in a bold and moving…
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Off-Broadway Review: HEAUX CHURCH (Ars Nova)
A HEAUX-LY COMMUNION Ars Nova kicks off its 2025–2026 season with a salacious and sanctified evening featuring Brandon Kyle Goodman in Heaux Church—a sermon on unabashed self-love (and yes, “Heaux” is pronounced “ho”). You can file this delightful solo show under Off-Broadway, but once you step into the theater… ahem… chapel, it’s clear we’re in…
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Broadway Review: RAGTIME (Lincoln Center Theater)
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…
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Dance Review: LIMÓN DANCE COMPANY (Joyce)
WHAT TO DO WITH MIDCENTURY MODERNISM? The first piece on the evening bill of the José Limon Dance Company’s residency at the Joyce was Limón’s Chaconne. As the director’s note in the program points out, the chaconne was a Mexican musical style interpreted by European composers. This piece, from 1942, was given a contemporary makeover,…
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Off-Broadway Review: ORATORIO FOR LIVING THINGS (Signature Theatre)
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…
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Off-Broadway Review: NOTHING CAN TAKE YOU FROM THE HAND OF GOD (Playwrights Horizon)
NOTHING CAN TAKE YOU FROM JEN TULLOCK’S PERFORMANCE We’ve all seen the headline flash on TV: — New Book Tells All About Author’s Escape from Restrictive Religious Upbringing. It’ss a story that gets covered countless times, no matter what religion or community is involved. People love a tale of empowerment and escape from oppression. Throw…
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Off-Broadway Review: THIS MUCH I KNOW (59E59 Theatres)
MIND OVER MATTER: IDEAS TAKE CENTER STAGE IN JOHNATHAN SPECTOR’S INTELLECTUALLY COMPELLING THIS MUCH I KNOW When was the last time you made a choice? What went through your mind? Did you know what you were going to choose before you did it? The psychology professor (Firdous Bamji) who steps onstage at 59E59 Theaters at…
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Off-Broadway Review: TARTUFFE (André De Shields at House of the Redeemer)
ANDRÉ DE SHIELDS THE REDEEMER André De Shields should be a landmark; for over six decades, he has towered over the worlds of theatre, film, and television with the kind of presence that cannot be imitated. So it is only fitting that he brings Molière’s Tartuffe to another historical New York institution: the House of…
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Off-Broadway Review: ITALIAN AMERICAN RECONCILIATION (The Flea Theatre)
RECONCILING WITH SHANLEY’S PAST In Italian American Reconciliation, playwright John Patrick Shanley, best known for Moonstruck and Doubt, returns to the Bronx of his youth where conversations required full hand choreography, and no emotion was considered too loud or hazardous. This love story is set in Little Italy in 1986, the year of the play’s…
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Theater Review: CROOKED CROSS (Mint Theatre)
THIS GRIPPING PRODUCTION IS A GEM — AND A WARNING Sally Carson began writing Crooked Cross while on vacation in Bavaria. This was in the early 1930s when Hitler was just rising to power. It’s a pity more people didn’t read her book. The novel, and later the play which she adapted from it, are…
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Cabaret Review: WASTED GIRL (Artemisia LeFay at 54 Below)
You might have thought it was the 1920s, and you were in a cabaret in Berlin. But it was really 2025 and you were in 54 Below watching Artemisia LeFay perform her new show, Wasted Girl. A rising star in the cabaret world, thanks to her two past shows, Ghosts of Weimar Past and Phantoms of the…
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Broadway Review: PUNCH (Manhattan Theatre Club at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
A KNOCKOUT OF CONSCIENCE You always “step in,” says Jacob — that’s what you do when your mates are about to fight. Growing up in The Meadows, Nottingham, that lesson kept him safe (well, safer) than some. But now the loyalty that once protected him has undone him: a single punch, thrown in defense of…
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