465 stories by "Michael Sommers"
★★★☆☆ En Garde Arts stages a new solo show inside a planetarium
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★★★☆☆ Hiran Abeysekera heads a multicultural ensemble in the National Theatre’s visiting production
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★★★☆☆ An English import showcases Jack Holden’s Olivier Award-winning performance as an ugly American
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★★☆☆☆ Luke Evans, Juliette Lewis and Rachel Dratch appear amid a conventional revival of an unconventional musical
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★★★★☆ Alex Brightman leads a dandy company through a salute to musicals like they don’t make them anymore
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★★★☆☆ Rose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara take summer stock of Noel Coward's vintage comedy at Roundabout
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★★★☆☆ Jennifer Tilly and Daphne Rubin-Vega lead The New Group's fresh staging of an expressionist drama
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★★★☆☆ Marla Mindelle, Jim Parsons and a merry crew sail off on a little spoof about a big disaster
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★★★☆☆ Luke Murphy directs and choreographs a modern Irish saga of murder, property and obsession
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★★★★☆ A queer reimagining of a classic brings naughty but nice ballroom culture to Broadway
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★★★☆☆ Patrick Page is formidable as a noble Roman driven mad in Red Bull's staging of Shakespeare's shocker
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★★★☆☆ Ma-Yi Theater premieres Jeena Yi's contemporary comedy-drama about Korean American sisters
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★★★★☆ Jasmine Amy Rogers, Jordan Donica, and Tonya Pinkins lead a terrific ensemble in Michael John LaChiusa's musical of Roaring '20s madness
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★★★☆☆ Matthew Broderick stars as a clueless film idol in Irish Rep's U.S. premiere of a prickly comedy
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★★★★☆ The Public Theater premieres Anna Ziegler's new version of a very old story
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★★★★☆ Audience participation is welcomed in a comical endurance contest
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★★★★☆ Hope Davis and Josh Hamilton brighten a sorrowful new Wallace Shawn drama staged by Andre Gregory
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★★☆☆☆ A new musical satirizes the gullibility of flyover America
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★★★☆☆ Kathleen Chalfant and Elizabeth Marvel lead the ensemble in a new play about a women's sobriety group
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★★☆☆☆ A potential concept for timely Shakespeare works better in theory than onstage at TFANA
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★★★☆☆ Mary Kate O Flanagan shares affirmative stories in a winning debut at Irish Rep
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★★★☆☆ Elevator Repair Service delivers a mad gallery of James Joyce's Dubliners
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The annual theater festival continues with a poignant Australian import, a cancellation, and an installation
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Fresh works from Ireland and Japan arrive in the opening week of the annual festival of innovative theater
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★★★☆☆ Kenny Leon strategically stages Gian Carlo Menotti's 45-minute chamber opera
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