103 stories by "Jesse Oxfeld"
★★★★ Heidi Schreck's entertaining, earnest exploration of our fundamental rights is a tonic for our challenging times
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The latest from 'One Man, Two Guvnors' playwright Richard Bean doesn't quite make the jump from northern England
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Long-Run Lookback: ★★★ The Disney warhorse still looks spectacular, even if it's not entirely engaging
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★★★★ Long-Run Lookback: The Andrew Lloyd Webber classic keeps dropping chandeliers, three decades later
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★★★ The stupid, feel-good Parkway-exit musical is Jersey in a nutshell: a messy good time
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★★★★ Rinne Groff's meditation on dreams and reality, devastation and redemption, packs a lot into a short ride
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★★★ William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin's take on the Ferber-Kaufman warhorse sharpens the 1920s satire, but not enough
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★★★ Jordan Harrison's latest, starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson, considers just about every issue in modern gay life, with some success
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★★★★ A Richard III update that takes on high school, disabilities, and lot of excellent wordplay
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★★ This Elevator Repair Service response to Edward Albee's classic purports to stand up for strong women but fails
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★★★ Mart Crowley's 1968 classic, now in a starry revival that shows how far we've come, is as indelible as ever"and as confounding
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★★★ John Kander's score and Susan Stroman's choreography soar; the play does not
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★★★★ Tom Stoppard's early masterwork is a shell-shocked delight in revival at the Roundabout
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★★★ Des McAnuff and Sergio Trujillo, with three Donnas and an all-woman chorus, put on an entertaining, confounding biomusical
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★★★ In Lucy Thurber's look at college admissions and social class, the hard-working students don't get what they deserve
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★★ Lauren Ridloff is terrific in the role Marlee Matlin made famous, but that doesn't save this horribly dated play
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★★★★ Director-choreography Casey Nicholaw has fun playing with the Plastics " but why's it all so white and straight?
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★★★ Something terrible has happened in corn country, but the young author of this spiky play doesn't quite unpack it
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★★★ A solid Frozen delivers the key moments and some strong performances, but it never truly lets go.
★★ The Jimmy Buffett musical, a paean to chilling out, has good songs, a talented cast, and takes itself way too seriously.
Cats just re-opened on Broadway. Does the feline fantasy have what it takes for another 18-year run?
About 45 minutes into Paramour, the Cirque du Soleil musical that opens at Broadway's Lyric Theatre tonight, the twin aerialists Andrew and Kevin Atherton are suspended over a stage set of w…
There is tremendous amount of talent, and a long list of credits, behind School of Rock, the Broadway musical of version of the 2003 Jack Black comedy. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the score. D…
A rollicking, authoritative and valuable history of Broadway.
The bad (and frankly a little surprising) news about On Your Feet, the new musical by, about, and featuring the songs of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, is that at no point through its nearly two…
