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A Post-Run Look and Interview Questions: “Giovanni’s Room” at Quintessence Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Closed Sunday, July 6, 2025)

After a successful run, including two extensions, “Geovanni’s Room” at Quintessence Theatre, the show closed on Sunday, July 6, 2026. Although the adaptation could have had a third extension, contractual considerations made that impossible. On May 28, Quintessence Theatre Group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania brought a literary classic to life in the world premiere of James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room,” adapted by…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Beau the Musical” at 154 Christopher Street (Through Sunday, July 27, 2025.

Flowing in the same vein as the triumphant off-Broadway show “Dead Outlaw,” which made a move to Broadway last season, is the wonderful “Beau the Musical,” now playing at Theatre 154. Produced by Out of the Box Theatrics, the musical follows somewhat the same structure where an onstage band provides the musical force but also serve double duty by taking…

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Festival News: Broadway Bound Theatre Festival 2025 Hosts Twelve New Plays and Musicals

May 25, 2025 | LGBTQ+, Queer > | Broadway Bound Theatre Festival

NEW SEASON, NEW PLAYS: Broadway Bound Theatre Festival -2025 hosts 12 new plays and musicals this summer at AMT Theater in midtown NYC. These new works are by emerging playwrights from across the country, with three full productions. BBTF is a curated festival, founded in 2016, focused on empowering self-producing playwrights by offering a nurturing, supportive environment, professional staff and…

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Theatre News: The Outer Critics Circle Announces Winners for 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards

May 12, 2025 | Broadway, glengarry, LGBTQ+, Music, Off-Broadway, Queer >

The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town, national, and digital news publications, has announced the winners for the 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the 2024-2025 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. The complete list of winners is below. The awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 22, 2025 at Lincoln…

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Broadway Review: “Real Women Have Curves: The Musical” at the James Earl Jones Theatre (Closed on Sunday, June 29, 2025)

May 4, 2025 | Broadway, LGBTQ+, Music, Queer > | "Real Women Have Curves: The Musical", Alecia Parker, Aline Mayagoitia, and make-up design by Krystal Balleza and Will Vicari, Ariana Burks, B.J. Holt, Benjamin Velez, Carla Jimenez, Casting/Victor Vazquez CSA and ARC/Duncan Stewart CSA, Christopher M. Ramirez, Claudia Mulet, costume design by Wilberth Gonzalez and Paloma Young, Elisa Galindez, Florencia Cuenca, Hair, James Earl Jones Theatre, Jennifer Sánchez, Joseph Verlezza, Joy Huerta, Julieta Cervantes, Justina Machado, lighting design by Natasha Katz, Lisa Loomer, Mason Reeves, Mauricio Mendoza, Monica Tulia Ramirez, Nell Benjamin, New York Theatre Reviews, Omar Madden, orchestrations by Nadia DiGiallonardo Joy Huerta Rich Mercurio and Benjamin Velez, Quincy Hampton, Roberto Sinha, Sandra Valls, scenic design by Arnulfo Maldonado, Shadia Fairuz, Shelby Acosta, sound design by John Shivers, Tatianna Córdoba, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tripp Phillips serves as Production Stage Manager, video design by Hana S. Kim, Wig, Zeus Mendoza

The somewhat recognizable journey from play, to film, and finally to musical delivers the new “Real Women have Curves” to the James Earl Jones Theatre on Broadway. It has morphed into a small musical with a big heart. The book by Lisa Loomer and Nell Benjamin is based on the play by Josefina Lopez and the screenplay by Ms. Lopez…

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Outer Critics Circle Announces Nominees for 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards

April 25, 2025 | & juliet, Broadway, glengarry, hills of, LGBTQ+, maybe happy, NY Musical Theatre, Off-Broadway, purpose, sunset > | "Oh Mary", Cole Escola, Conrad Ricamora, David Roberts, John Gassner Award, Museum of Broadway, New York Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, West Bank Cafe

The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town, national, and digital news publications, has announced the nominees for the 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the 2024-2025 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. Leading the pack with the most honors of the season is the Broadway musical Death Becomes Her, with twelve nominations, followed…

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Off-Broadway Short Review: “Grangeville” at the Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffen Jewel Box Theatre (Closed Sunday, March 23, 2025)

Two half-brothers half a world apart face the decline of their mother in Samuel D. Hunter’s “Grangeville” currently on at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffen Jewel Box Theatre. The mood of the conversations between forty-something Arnold (Brian J. Smith) who lives in Rotterdam and his older half-brother Jerry (Paul Sparks) who still lives in Grangeville, Idaho range from…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Conversations with Mother” at Theater 555 (Closed Monday, April 25, 2025)

The new play by Matthew Lombardo titled “Conversations with Mother” now playing Off-Broadway at Theatre 555, is a lighthearted and comical evening of entertainment, mostly due to the extremely talented cast. This eighty-five minute two-hander stars Caroline Aaron and Matt Doyle, who make use of their perfect timing and comedic skills to bring as many laughs as possible to the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Liberation” Misses the Mark at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (Closed Sunday, March 30, 2025)

There is nothing about liberation, nor is there anything liberating in Bess Wohl’s “Liberation” currently running at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. There is gratuitous and unnecessary nudity on stage that requires patrons to relinquish their phones before entering the theater. That nudity is completely unnecessary: the questions raised about the characters’…

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Broadway Review: “Redwood” at the Nederlander Theatre (Closed Sunday, May 18, 2025)

February 22, 2025 | Broadway, LGBTQ+, Queer > | "Redwood", BANDALOOP (Vertical Movement/Vertical Choreography), Bradley Dean, Daniel Brackett, De’Adre Aziza, Evan Zimmerman, Haley Bennett (Associate Music Supervision), Hana S. Kim (Video Design), Idena Menzel, Idina Menzel, Jason Ardizzone-West (Scenic Design), Jennifer Weber (Dream Choreography), Jessica Phillips, Jonathan Deans (Sound Design), Joseph Verlezza, Julie McBride, Kate Diaz, Kenneth Ferrone, Khaila Wilcoxon, Matthew Armentrout (Wig Design), Matthew Murphy, Melecio Estrella, Michael Park, New York Theatre Reviews, Patrick Goodman, Scott Zielinski (Lighting Design), Telsey + Company, The Nederlander Theatre, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tina Landau, Tom Kitt (Music Supervision), Toni-Leslie James (Costume Design), Veronica Otim, Zachary Noah Piser

The new musical “Redwood,” which recently opened at the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway, certainly lives up to the title, featuring the magnificent giant redwood tree that seamlessly moves on and off-stage as needed. In fact, it may be one of the best characters, given the name Stella, in this long, tedious and banal musical which was conceived by its star…

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