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The company in “Patriots” on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York. (Matthew Murphy)

Review: ‘Patriots’ on Broadway is a gripping, juicy drama about Vladimir Putin

April 22, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.

“Patriots” offers up a potted history of Russia from the 1990s, the era of bumbling Boris Yeltsin, to the present.

Eddie Redmayne and cast in "Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club" on Broadway at the Aug. Wilson Theatre in New York. (Marc Brenner)

Review: Broadway’s ‘Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club’ turns the Berlin nightclub into a weird, dystopian party

April 21, 2024 at 8:30 p.m.

Some folks who should have known better have let the so-called interactive craze go to their heads.

Rendering of Second City's new theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in New York City. (Barker Nestor)

Review: Second City NYC opens with ‘Ruthless Acts of Kindness’ in a theater still finding its way

April 23, 2024 at 2:08 p.m.

NEW YORK — A Chicago-style Italian beef sandwich is on the menu at Second City's new outpost in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The tasty if pricey sandwich is an outlier among the...

Conductor Andrew Davis leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center on Jan. 30, 2020. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Conductor Andrew Davis, music director emeritus of Lyric Opera, dies at 80

April 22, 2024 at 12:22 p.m.

He was singularly popular among the Lyric musicians with whom he worked and who perhaps knew him the best during the second half of his career.

Maleah Joi Moon, Chris Lee and cast in "Hell's Kitchen" on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre in New York. (Marc J. Franklin)

Review: ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ on Broadway is Alicia Keys’ lively New York coming-of-age story

May 2, 2024 at 11:38 a.m.

There are no surprises in the mother-daughter narrative, to be sure, but you get Key's songs and zesty choreography in the story of a teenager growing up in a New...

Juliana Canfield in "Stereophonic" on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre in New York. (Julieta Cervantes)

Review: ‘Stereophonic,’ about a band under pressure, is a Broadway show not to be missed

April 25, 2024 at 3:44 p.m.

A fictional British group is making a studio album in California between the summers of 1976 and 1977. You never see their lives outside of the recording studio in David...

Nikki M. James as Ida B. Wells and cast in "Suffs" on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in New York. (Joan Marcus)

Review: ‘Suffs’ on Broadway explores the history of women’s suffrage in the United States

April 18, 2024 at 8:30 p.m.

In the end, “Suffs” does what all of the best Broadway musicals do: it humanizes, empowers, entertains and moves an audience.

Alexandra Silber and cast in "The Music Man" at Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. (Liz Lauren)

Review: Lovely ‘Music Man’ at Marriott Theatre is all about Marian the librarian

April 19, 2024 at 7:46 a.m.

Why does Marian the librarian fall for that slick con man Harold Hill, he who has manufactured trouble in River City purely so he can make a buck from peddling...

Kyle Ramar Freeman as Lion, Nichelle Lewis as Dorothy, Wayne Brady as The Wiz, Phillip Johnson Richardson as Tinman and Avery Wilson as Scarecrow in "The Wiz" on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre in New York. (Jeremy Daniel)

Review: ‘The Wiz’ on Broadway is freshened up and ready for an adoring audience

April 17, 2024 at 10:00 p.m.

For a lot of Broadway fans, the return of the Super Soul Musical to the Great White Way after some 50 years is a cause for celebration.

Eden Espinosa and cast in "Lempicka" on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre in New York. (Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)

Review: ‘Lempicka’ struggles to make a painter’s life work as a Broadway musical

April 14, 2024 at 10:00 p.m.

Clearly, the show starring Eden Espinosa feels like its subject has not enjoyed her due recognition.

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