744 stories by "Steven Suskin"
★★★★☆ New production of fabled masterwork lights the lights and hits the heights
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★★★★☆ A Dubliner's midwinter's night dream, on upper Fifth Avenue Â
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★★★★☆ Affably goofy Grey Henson shines in revival of endearing screen-to-stage musical
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★★★★☆ A play about a spirited 17th century girl who determines she will become a master painter like Caravaggio, and does so, might seem a tad esoteric. And the…
★★☆☆☆ Evangelical sex scandal with sequins fizzles, from Elton John and friends
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The not-quite-classic musical in a not-quite-effective concert version, despite fine musical elements led by Ted Sperling, with Bryce Pinkham, Christopher Fitzgerald, John Ellison Conlee, an…
★★★☆☆ Jim Parsons, Richard Thomas, Zoey Deutch and more in director Kenny Leon's new production
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★★★★☆ Anthony Edwards and Susannah Flood in Meghan Kennedy's forceful new play, directed by David Cromer
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★★☆☆☆ Unconvincing docudrama drawn from the January 6 riot
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The director of the recent "Merrily We Roll Along" is back in town, singing Sondheim at Café Carlyle
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★★★★☆ Meredith Garretson and Kelly McAndrew battle it out in Arlene Hutton's powerful new play Â
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★★★★☆ Another Encores! musical comedy winner takes up residence on Broadway
The post Once Upon a Mattress: Sutton Foster-of-the-Swamps Reigns Triumphant appeare…
★★★★☆ Tim Marriott's deft one-act is well played by the author and Alex Sunderhaus
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★★★★☆ Maury Yeston's remarkable score is given a ravishing hearing at Encores
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★★★★☆ The beloved Tony-winner celebrates adulthood, motherhood, and stepping out of the ingenue shell
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★★★★☆ Celia Keenan-Bolger, Jessica Lange, and Jim Parsons star as Paula Vogel's struggling family
The post Mother Play: Evicting Not-So-Dear Old Mom, with Marti…
★★★★★ Nikki M. James, Grace McLean, Jenn Colella, Emily Skinner, and an exceptional cast spark this new musical about the battle for equal voting rights in Amer…
★★★☆☆ Six actors play the two leading characters in this atmospheric musical based on the popular Nicholas Sparks novel
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★★☆☆☆ A promising comedic idea leaves this viewer disenchantedly unengaged
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★★★★☆ David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, Itamar Moses, and David Cromer create a ballad of a failed outlaw, dead and alive
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★★★★☆ Tobias Menzies stars in Rupert Goold's Almeida production of the psychological thriller at St. Ann's Warehouse
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★★★★☆ Uproarious farce sheds new light on the War Between the States, or at least the War Between the Lincolns
The post Oh, Mary!: Cole Escola As The Ludicrousl…
★★★★☆ Sutton Foster, Michael Urie, Harriet Harris and more lead the cast in a happy revival of the Mary Rodgers"Marshall Barer musical
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★★★☆☆ Supermodel looks back, 50 (!) years later
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★★★☆☆ Good intentions alone, alas, do not a compelling musical make.
The post How to Dance in Ohio: Talented Cast Overcomes Earnest-but-Ordinary Material appear…
