319 stories by "Melissa Rose Bernardo"
★★★★ Bess Wohl gets big laughs from a long-married couple, their potential divorce, and their flabbergasted adult children
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★★★★ Shakespeare's rarely produced tale of a big-hearted spendthrift gets a powerful production with a first-rate female Timon
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★★★★ Laura Linney shines in this Richard Eyre"directed one-woman show about the unbreakable, intricate mother-daughter bond
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★★★★ If '80s music is your jam, the nostalgia-soaked 'Sing Street' is right up your alley
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★★★★ The actor, singer, and virtuoso pianist pays tribute to Cole Porter with a Broadway extravaganza
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★★ Harry Hamlin and Stefanie Powers play three pairs of siblings in this flight-themed earthbound drama
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★★★ Gerard Alessandrini's valentine to composer-lyricist Maury Yeston mixes his best-known songs with a handful of obscurities
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"Ooh, this could get messy," sings the ensemble of Broadway's Jagged Little Pill at the top of Act 2. It's actually a bit from "Hands Clean" " not a song from the eponymous 1995 Alanis Moris…
★★★★ Tony Kushner takes another look at his Hitler-through-the-Reagan-era play 'A Bright Room Called Day'
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★★★★ America's most popular living playwright, Lauren Gunderson, shines a spotlight on two history-making female scientists Â
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★★★★ Thanks to star Solea Pfeiffer, the City Center Encores! production will leave you on a rainbow high
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★★★★ The Tony-winning Broadway baritone is as swoon-worthy as ever in a show packed with his holiday and showtune favorites
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★★★★★ Anna Deavere Smith's one-person show still burns bright with star Michael Benjamin Washington and a timely-as-ever theme
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★★★★ The ever-popular Kristin Chenoweth returns to Broadway with a too-brief concert run
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★★★ Theresa Rebeck centers her newest comedy on a crash-and-burn"style pretentious New York chef
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★★★★ The couple who slays together stays together? Real-life spouses Corey Stoll and Nadia Bowers star as Shakespeare's murderous Scots.
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★★★★ Ntozake Shange's 1976 choreopoem receives an inspired revival at the Public Theater, where its poetry first flowed Â
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★★★★ Four-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein channels Battling Bella Abzug in his history-packed new one-person show
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★★★★ The beloved 1982 musical returns to its off-Broadway roots. Just don't feed the plants!
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★★ The new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' ode to amore is a bottle of Asti Spumante that's lost its fizz
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★★★ Tracy Letts pens a startlingly accurate, if tough to swallow, portrait of "middle-aged desperation"
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★★★★ Jeremy O. Harris' phenomenally daring, disruptive drama is the polar opposite of theatrical comfort food
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★★★★ Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Anthony Veneziale's improv phenomenon conquers Broadway
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★★★ Irish Rep stages a too-grim revival of one of Conor McPherson's grimmest plays
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★★★ Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins are entrancing as husband and wife in Florian Zeller's going-gently-into-that-good-night drama
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