103 stories by "Jesse Oxfeld"
★★☆☆☆ Playwright JC Lee tries and fails to create a compelling portrait of 30-something gay male friendship today
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★★★★☆ Richard Greenberg's gay-ballplayer comic tragedy fares well in revival, despite mixed performances
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★★★☆☆ Sarah Jessica Parker shines, at least, in this dated, disappointing Neil Simon revival
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★★★☆☆ The story of the first Chinese woman in America is horrifying, and all these years later we're still telling it
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★★★★★ Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster headline a blockbuster Music Man revival that puts the grin in grift
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★★★☆☆ The Lynn Nottage-Christopher Wheeldon bioplay is a song-and-dance delight that asks you to forget the biography
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★★★★☆ The Robin Williams vehicle makes a successful transfer, scripted and scored by the 'Something Rotten!' team
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★★☆☆☆ Like Charles and Elizabeth before them, a creative team of (minor) Broadway royalty does Lady Spencer no favors
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★★★★☆ The Sondheim-Weidman musical feels newly fresh in the Classic Stage Company revival
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The first new Broadway production in 17 months is an extraordinary Black-lives-matter take on Godot and the Exodus
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★★★★☆ Celine Song's powerful NYTW debut looks legacy, obligation, pride, and a dying ancient tradition
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★★★★☆ Irish playwright Conor McPherson constructs a moving, mythical American story inside the singer-songwriter's world
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★★★ Unpacking complicated family history, but with unengaging characters and performances
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★★ An award-winning play about women, trauma, and legacy, collapsing in on itself
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★★★ This probing but flawed Pulitzer winner gets a gorgeous revival staged by Kenny Leon with David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood
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★★★ Lucas Hnath's latest weighs belief and skepticism, whimsy and seriousness
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★★★★ Samuel D. Hunter crafts an excellent play, starring Judith Ivey and Edmund Donovan, from sad realities
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★★★★ The Alanis Morissette jukebox musical brings down the house, unironically
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★★★ A solid, straightforward staging at the Signature delivers little emotion and no surprises
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★★ Lauren Gunderson, "America's favorite playwright," comes to New York with a historical-feminist melodrama
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★★★★ A triumphant Adrienne Warren powers the best biomusical in years
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★★★★ Richard Nelson takes us back to Rhinebeck, with a thoughtful play about time passing, decently
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★★★★ Michael Mayer's lowkey revival, like the clumsy clerk at its center, emphasizes the quirky charms of simplicity
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★★★ The long-running revue is back, still entertaining but not quite sure what it's making fun of
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★★★★ Baz Luhrmann's hit bohemian-Paris movie gets bigger and bolder for Broadway
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