Category: Theatre
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New York Mini-Reviews 2025 p4: Broadway Plays
I usually focus on seeing Broadway musicals over plays, mainly for the spectacle, but also because Broadway plays seem to offer less bang for the many bucks you spend. But these three were the highlights of my trip.
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New York Mini-Reviews 2025 p3: Broadway Musicals
Audra! Idina! Nicole! New musicals! Revivals! Adaptations! There’s a bit of everything… except jukeboxes. No jukeboxes.
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New York Mini-Reviews 2025 p2: Off-Broadway Musicals
Just like the Off-Broadway Plays, these musicals are all of the standard we can easily see here at home, but both felt tied to New York for their own reasons.
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New York Mini-Reviews 2025 p1: Off-Broadway Plays
Of the three Off-Broadway plays I saw, there was a real mix of quality and a range of very famous names. It certainly was interesting…
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Snakeface (Belvoir 25a) ★★★½
This is a voice I want to hear more from.
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These Youths Be Protesting (KXT on Broadway) ★★★
These Youths Be Protesting has the laughs, performances, and vivacity to keep you engaged.
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Dear Elena Sergeevna (Old Fitz) ★★★★
Dear Elena Sergeevna puts the focus on the actors to bring this 80s Russian moral drama to the small stage. It’s thrilling.
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Amber (Old Fitz) ★★★½
Amber is a rom-com, and like all the best rom-coms, it sneaks in some darker material on the way to its HEA (or HFN, at least).
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Bloom (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★
Tom Gleisner & Katie Weston’s Bloom arrives in Sydney following its well-reviewed premiere at Melbourne Theatre Co in 2023.
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The Player Kings (Seymour) ★★★★½
This isn’t “eating your theatrical vegetables,” but a lavish degustation menu of Shakespearean delights.
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