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Off-Broadway: “Kyoto” at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater (Closed Sunday, November 30, 2025)

November 3, 2025 | Broadway, LGBTQ+, Queer > | "Kyoto", Aideen Malone (lighting design), Akhila Krishnan (video design), Amelia McClain, Christopher Reid (sound design), Clark Carmichael, CSA (casting), CSA and Alexandre Bleau, Daniel Jenkins, Dariush Kashani, David Roberts, Diana DiVita (stage manager), Ed Burnside (associate director), Emilio Madrid, Erin Darke, Ferdy Roberts, Gemma Stockwood (Dramaturg), Imani Jade Powers, Jim Carnahan, Joe Murphy, Joe Robertson, Jorge Bosch, Julia Horan (original UK casting director), Justin Martin, Kate Burton, LGBTQ, Lianah Sta. Ana, Lincoln Center Theater, Luis Carlos de La Lombana, Miriam Buether (set design), Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Natalie Gold, Natalie Pryce (costume design), New York Theatre Reviews, Odera Adimorah, Paul Englishby (original music), Paul Juhn, Peter Bradbury, Rob Narita, Roslyn Ruff, Stephen Daldry, Stephen Kunken, Taiana Tully, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

After garnering mostly rave reviews in London’s West End and Stratford-upon-Avon, “Kyoto” by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson is currently running Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater. The play spans 1989-1997 and is narrated from the point of view of Don Pearlman (Stephen Kunken), an American oil lobbyist who works to sabotage UN climate negotiations. It’s framed as…

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Broadway Review: “Ragtime” at Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumont Theater (Currently On)

October 26, 2025 | Broadway, Music > | “Ragtime”, 59 Studio (projection design), Adam Honoré (Lighting Design), Alan Wiggins, Allison Blackwell, Ann James (sensitivity specialist), Anna Grace Barlow, Ben Levi Ross, Billy Cohen, Brandon Uranowitz, Briana Carlson-Goodman, Caissie Levy, Colin Donnell, David Jennings, David Korins (scenic design), Deandre Sevon, Eean Sherrod Cochran, Ellenore Scott (choreography), Ellie Fishman, Ellie May Sennett, Jackson Parker Gill, Jacob Keith Watson, Jason Forbach, Jenny Mollet, John Clay III, John Rapson, Jordan Chin, Joseph Verlezza, Joshua Henry, Kai Harada (Sound Design), Kaleb Johnson, Kane Emmanuel Miller, Kayla Pecchioni, Kent Overshown, Kerry Conte, Lauren Blackman, Lincoln Center Theater, Linda Cho (Costume Design), Marina Kondo, Matthew Murphy, Matthew Scott, Morgan Marcell, Music Director James Moore, New York Theatre Reviews, Nichelle Lewis, Nicholas Barrón, Nick Barrington, Nick Gaswirth, Rheaume Crenshaw, Rodd Cyrus, Shaina Taub, Stephen Flaherty, Ta’Nika Gibson, Tabitha Lawing, The Telsey Office, The Telsey Office Craig Burns CSA (casting), Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tom Nelis, Tom Watson (hair and wig design), Vivian Beaumont Theater, William David Brohn

It is very rare that a revival of a musical is imagined better than the original production and exceptional that its message is more relevant now than when it first opened on Broadway nearly thirty years ago in 1997, garnering four Tony Awards. That is the case for the glorious revival of “Ragtime” with a book penned by Terrence McNally,…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Ghosts” at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (Closed Saturday, April 26, 2025)

There are skeletons in Helena Alving’s (a tortured yet stalwart Lily Rabe) closet whose secrets she would rather not be revealed. More devastating to Helena than these skeletons is the bevy of ghosts that will not allow her to rest until their messages and warnings from her past are heard and fully processed in the present. Helena’s reawakened trauma is…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Blood Quilt” at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitze E. Newhouse Theater (Closed on Sunday, December 29, 2024)

Families of any number, age, or culture often meet for special occasions, some more special than others. Depending on the mix of those above descriptors, these get-togethers result in quite different outcomes ranging from collegial to catastrophic. These gatherings can be around any number of holidays or around some specific tradition. Those celebrating a specific tradition are often annual events….

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Broadway Review: “McNeal” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (Closed on Sunday, November 24, 2024)

“McNeal,” currently on at the Vivan Beaumont Theater, is playwright Ayad Akhtar’s exploration into the unexpected confluence of plagiarism, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the canon of western literature through the life and writing of renowned playwright Jacob McNeal (a cantankerous but magnetic Robert Downing Jr) who is, at the play’s onset, “badgering” Chat GPT on his iPhone to predict whether…

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Musical and Dance Review: “Notre Dame de Paris” at the David H. Koch Theater (Closed Sunday, July 16, 2023)

July 2, 2023 | Dance, do this one thing for me, Music > | Alessandra Berti, Alessia Papale, Anaïs Replumaz, Andrea Neyroz, Angelo Del Vecchio as Quasimodo, Antonio Balsamo, Arek Szynal and Ivan Urbano. The production’s breakers are Alex Besnier and Tiger. The dance ensemble features Lorenzo Arnouts, Daniel Lavoie as Frollo, David H. Koch Theater, Elhaida Dani as Esmeralda, Eric Jetner for Phoebus/Gringoire, Gabriel Nabo, Gian Marco Schiaretti as Gringoire, Gilles Maheu, Giulia Barbone, Giuseppe Marino, Ivan Trimarchi, Jaime Bono for Esmeralda/Fleur-de-Lys, Jay as Clopin, Jérémy Amelin as Phoebus, Jonathan Gajdane, Joseph Verlezza, Lincoln Center Theater, Luc Plamondon, Marina Barbone, Martino Müller, Mike Lee for Clopin, Nathan Jones, Philippe Tremblay for Quasimodo, Richard Cocciante, Roberta Zegretti, Rodolphe Duquesne, Solal for Frollo, Sonia Picone, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Vaia Venetis, Valentin Piers, Wilfried Bernard

“Notre Dame de Paris” is based on the novel by Victor Hugo and is adapted by author Luc Plamondon with music composed by Richard Cocciante. The musical and dance piece is billed as a musical spectacle and this current production at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater lives up to that righteous claim. Containing fifty-one musical numbers and little spoken…

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Broadway Review: “Camelot” at the Vivian Beaumont in Lincoln Center Theater (Closed Sunday, July 23, 2023)

In the “Camelot” now on the stage of The Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, magic has been replaced with science, wizardry replaced by wisdom, romance replaced by practicality, and fantasy is overcome by reality. This all falls at the hands of Aaron Sorkin who penned this new book based on the original by Alan Jay Lerner, in an attempt…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Epiphany” Tackles Wonder Head-On at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E Newhouse Theater (Closed Sunday, July 31, 2022)

In an email with several attachments (none of which any of the invitees bothered to read), Morkan (the incomparable Marylouise Burke) invites several friends to her “very big house, on the banks of a large river, just north of a big city” to celebrate Epiphany and meet the honored guest, Gabriel. This is the setting for one of the most…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Greater Clements” at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

After an economic downturn and the subsequent gentrification closes the mining industry in 2017 Clements, Idaho, the residents vote to unincorporate as a town. But mining continues to flourish in Samuel D. Hunter’s “Greater Clements” currently running at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater: not the mining of “silver, lead, zinc, copper, little bit of gold, some molybdenum,” but…

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Broadway Review: “The Great Society” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater

“The Great Society,” the second installment of playwright Robert Schenkkan’s biographical account of the years Lyndon B. Johnson spent as president in the White House, is less a drama and more a chronological list of the destructive events the plagued his second term in office. To the playwright’s credit, it is extensively detailed and factual; however, to his discredit, it…

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