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★★☆☆☆ The Lerner & Loewe musical is unable to live up to its reputation in this Sher & Sorkin revision
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★★☆☆☆ Aaron Sorkin revamps, Bartett Sher directs the beloved musical
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★★★★★ An inspired adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet as seen through a modern lens.
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★★★★★ Revenge is a dish best served smoked in this backyard barbecue Bard-inspired Pulitzer winner
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★★★★☆ Fledgling playwright Julia Izumi works out Tolstoy's dictum about families unhappy and otherwise in this loopy portrait of three adult Asian adoptees.
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★★★☆☆ The Pulitzer and Tony winner's sudsy soap opera, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
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★★★☆☆ Mary Elizabeth Hamilton's timely three-hander, directed by Matt Dickson
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★★★★☆ Clare Perkins gives a tour de force performance as the very liberated much-married woman of Chaucerian fame
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★★★★☆ Chaucer's outspoken, sex-positive "Wife of Bath," as updated by Zadie Smith, has some insights to share, along with a remedial agenda.
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★★★★☆ This original musical, featuring a book by Robert Horn ("Tootsie") and songs by Nashville veterans Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, is a consistent deligh…
★★★★☆ Robert Horn's book and the Brandy Clark/Shane McAnally score scores nicely
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★★★★☆ Improbable co-founder Phelim McDermott delivers a vividly theatrical expression of his lifelong obsession with Glass' music.
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★★★☆☆ Karen Ziemba cracks wise in Arlene Hutton's backstage comedy
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★★★★☆ A terrific stage adaptation of the best selling novel ingeniously fleshes out humans and animals alike.
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★★★★☆ The Olivier Award-winning adaptation of Yann Martel's novel features breathtaking puppetry and stagecraft.
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★★★☆☆ The long-running off-Broadway play-turned-long-developing musical returns, enlivened by a winning cast
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★★★☆☆ Jack Heifner's play with David Kirshenbaum tunes, directed by Will Pomerantz
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★★★★★ Josh Groban, Annaleigh Ashford, and "Hamilton" creatives elevate a musical classic to unprecedented heights
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★★★★☆ Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford topline a grand revival of the 1979 musical about a bloodthirsty barber and his pastry-making accomplice
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★★☆☆☆ Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical, featuring lyrics by David Zippel, delivers a vulgar take on the classic fairy tale.
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★★★★☆ The comedian talks about her influences and the corrosive effects of censorship on comedy in her one-person show.
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★★★☆☆ Playwright Talene Monahon consults Arthur Miller, Caitlin Sulllivan directing
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★★★★☆ The steps are Fosse's, the vision is Wayne Cilento's: a valentine to the nine-time Tony-winning director-choreographer
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★★★☆☆ Dancers spark the blaring revue Wayne Cilento directs and stages
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★★★★☆ Jesse Berger's Red Bull company goes to town on an almost forgotten 1592 work
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