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Broadway Review: “Bug” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Currently On)

Twenty-nine years after its London premiere, Tracy Letts’ “Bug” has finally crawled onto Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and the question that matters most isn’t whether this David Cromer-directed production succeeds or fails—it’s whether Cromer understood what play he was directing. “Bug” is a psychiatric horror about folie à deux, the clinical term for shared psychotic…

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Broadway Review: “Punch” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Closed on Sunday, November 2, 2025))

“You always step in,” Jacob Dunne (Will Harrison) tells us from the stage of the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, explaining the code of the Meadows housing estate where loyalty means throwing fists without thinking. “Always. With a mate. No matter where, no matter what.” This philosophy—this toxic, tribal, inevitable logic—will cost James Hodgkinson his life in a single, unprovoked punch…

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Broadway Review: “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Closed Sunday, June 29, 2025)

April 8, 2025 | Broadway, Music > | "Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends", Alexa Lopez, Alfonso Casado Trigo, Annbritt duChateau, Bernadette Peters, Beth Leavel, Bonnie Langford, Cameron Mackintosh, costume design by Jill Parker, Daniel Yearwood, David Lober, Gavin Lee, Greg Mills, Jacob Dickey, Jasmine Forsberg, Jason Pennycooke, Jeremy Secomb, Joanna Riding, Joseph Verlezza, Kate Jennings Grant, Kevin Earley, Kyle Selig, Lea Salonga, lighting design by Warren Letton, Manhattan Theatre Club, Maria Wirries, Matthew Bourne, Mick Potter, New York Theatre Reviews, Paige Faure, Peter Neureuther, projection design by George Reeve, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Set design by Matt Kinley, Stephen Brooker, Stephen Metcalfe, Stephen Sondheim, Tara Rubin Casting, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

One of the latest offerings to open on Broadway comes in the form of a tribute musical revue, dedicated to the incredible work of the iconic composer and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim. It is devised by producer Cameron Mackintosh, who has carefully selected songs from the musicals he produced in association with Mr. Sondheim. The two names that appear above the…

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Broadway Review: “Eureka Day” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Closed Sunday, February 16, 2025)

What could go wrong at a private school whose five-member board of directors makes all decisions based on consensus and has what benefitted the community at heart as their guiding principle. A board so committed to inclusion that The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California’s cultural identity drop-down menu for prospective parents offers eleven choices. And if Eli (an oblivious…

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Broadway Review: “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Closed Sunday, November 19, 2023)

October 12, 2023 | Broadway, the ally > | “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”, & Erica Hart (Casting), Brittany Adebumola (Miriam), Caparelliotis Casting, David Zinn (Scenic Design), Dawn-Elin Fraser (Dialect & Vocal Coach), Dede Ayite (Costume Design), Dominique Thorne (Marie), Jiyoun Chang (Lighting Design), Jocelyn Bioh, Joseph Verlezza, Justin Ellington (Original Music & Sound Design), Kalyne Coleman (Chrissy/Michelle/Laniece), Kelly Gillespie, Lakisha May (Vanessa/Radia/Sheila), Maechi Aharanwa (Ndidi), Matthew Murphy, Melanie J. Lisby (Production Stage Manager), Michael Oloyede (James/Sock Man/DVD Man/Jewelry Man), Nana Mensah (Aminata), Nikiya Mathis (Hair & Wig Design), Rachel Christopher (Jennifer), Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Somi Kakoma (Jaja), Stefania Bulbarella (Video Design), Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Whitney White, Zenzi Williams (Sista Bea)

Manhattan Theatre Club is presenting a new Broadway production entitled “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” penned by Jocelyn Bioh at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Ms. Bioh has set her dramedy inside a hair braiding shop located in Harlem, during one entire day, and has filled the establishment with an array of colorful and outlandish employees and clientele. The occasional street…

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Broadway Review: “The Collaboration” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Closed Saturday, February 11, 2023)

Unlike the typical one-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle where the completed puzzle matches the image on the cover, “The Collaboration’s” dénouement and resolution are nothing like the playwright’s supposed intention when writing the script. Anthony McCarten sets us up for a scuba diving expedition. The playwright teases us into a deep-sea dive into the wreckage that is the lives of two disparate…

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Broadway Review: “Cost of Living” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Closed Sunday, November 6, 2022)

“Cost of living indexes are meant to compare the expenses an average person can expect to incur to acquire food, shelter, transportation, energy, clothing, education, healthcare, childcare, and entertainment in different regions.” – Investopedia The folks in Martyna Majok’s “Cost of Living,” currently running at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, are not “average people” and they experience the…

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Theatre News: Manhattan Theatre Club Announces Final Two Productions for Return to the Stage 2021 – 2022

January 11, 2021 | a man of, awards, Broadway, detroit 67, News, Off-Broadway, skeleton crew, the old man > | "Prayer for the French Republic", "Skeleton Crew", David Cromer, Dominique Morisseau, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City Center Stage I, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce plans to produce two additional shows for Manhattan Theatre Club‘s 2021-2022 season. In the winter of 2022, MTC plans to present the Broadway premiere of Skeleton Crew, written by Tony Award® nominee Dominique Morisseau (Ain’t Too Proud, Pipeline) and directed by Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Lackawanna Blues, August Wilson’s Jitney) at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Also, in Winter 2022,…

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Broadway Review: “The Height of the Storm” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

When couples have conversations about aging and approaching the end of their lives, generic yet fundamental questions arise. “What happens if I die before you? “Do you think you will die before I do? What am I going to do without you? “How will I live without you? “Is there anything you want to tell me before one of us…

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Broadway Review and News: “Choir Boy” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

“Every place I went felt the same. Cept . . . Until I got to Drew. Everybody didn’t like me but I had . . . I had space to let me be. Now everybody looking at me like, ‘Blackeye, probation, Yup, that’s what you get.’” – Pharus to ‘AJ’ After a successful and extended run at Manhattan Theatre Club’s…

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