319 stories by "Melissa Rose Bernardo"
★★ Come for actors John Glover and Mark Linn-Baker; leave with playwright Michael Tucker's recipe for spaghetti with clam sauce
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★★★★★ Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton, and Charlie Cox make a beguiling love triangle in Harold Pinter's backward-spinning drama
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★★★★ A 200-person cast goes the distance with the Public Works adaptation of the beloved Disney movie
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★★★★ Children of the '80s will especially enjoy Bess Wohl's nostalgic new play, set in a memory-filled family attic
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★★ The second open-air Central Park offering of the summer is a rare miss from usually on-point Shakespearean director Daniel Sullivan
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★★★ Domenica Feraud's ambitious drama ultimately crumbles under the weight of its good intentions
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★★★★★ Karen Olivo and Aaron Tveit belt out chart-topping hits in the lavish screen-to-stage salute to "truth, beauty, freedom, and love"
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★★★★ Annie Golden taps into her badass side in Joe Iconis' 1970s-inspired musical
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★★ Rita Rudner's innumerable comic gifts are squandered in this musical misfire
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★★★★ Halley Feiffer writes a love letter to Chekhov's classic
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★★★ A decade after its first air guitar riff, the hair-metal jukebox musical is back"and it's still nothin' but a good time
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★★★★ The writer-performer flies solo in this musical memoir about his coming of age in Luton, England
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★★★★ The 1978 musical gets a City Center"centered update for the five-performance concert-style revival
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★★★★ Lydia R. Diamond hits one right up the middle with her play about the first female Negro League ballplayer
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★★★★ Sarah-Louise Young's musical tribute to Julie Andrews is full of heart, enthusiasm, and a totally voluntary singalong
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★★★ We do spy some marks of love in this Shakespeare in the Park production starring Danielle Brooks
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★★★★ Director Erica Schmidt and an all-female cast update Shakespeare's bloody tragedy for the Instagram age
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★★★ The York revives its old-fashioned theater-themed hit in honor of the company's 50th anniversary
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★★★★ Director Terry Kinney finds the perfect brooding poetic despair in Sam Shepard's late-'70s drama
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★★★★ The Sydney Pollack"directed '80s movie gets a Broadway makeover courtesy of screen-to-stage musical specialist David Yazbek
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★★★ Halley Feiffer stars in her own play about a writer battling Lyme disease and an obsessive codependent relationship
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★★★★ More than 70 years after its premiere, Arthur Miller's breakthrough drama proves as powerful (and timely) as ever
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★★★ Keri Russell and Adam Driver play unlikely lovers in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's play
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★★★ Sam Gold's production isn't sharper than a serpent's tooth, but Glenda Jackson wears the crown well
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★★★★★ Playwright-actress Heidi Schreck is really excited about the Constitution"and soon you will be, too
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