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Kim Ima's READY FOR COMPANY AND OTHER FAMILY TALES: Delicious & delightful presentation of Kim’s Japanese-Jewish-American family followed by cake & tea.
2 HAPPY WELL-FED FACES End 11/23 bit.ly/2iigtST
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November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Leon Ingulsrud & Brooke Shilling’s WAKE delivers a textured,multivalent meditation on mourning—refusing easy answers & honoring grief in all its unruly, uncompromised complexity.
HAPPY FACE MINUS End 11/23 bit.ly/2iigtST
www.59e59.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Ethan Coen’s LET’S LOVE: More about sex, anger, & angst than love. Short random scenes. Mostly about a cheating husband & an angry wife who hires a tough to beat up her husband.
Great actors in unappealing play.
MIXED FACE End 11/22 bit.ly/2iigtST
atlantictheater.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
ROB LAKE MAGIC:Good old fashioned magic show w/ all the tricks & illusions that anyone who has ever gone to a magic show will be familiar with.But w/the added bonus of the Muppets;Lots of flashing lights.
HAPPY FACE -11/16 at 3pm bit.ly/2iigtST
www.roblake.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Gotham Storytelling Festival:
Gabe Mollica’s THE BIG PICTURE: He sorts out “where he is in life” & “where society thinks he should be”.
Very engaging
HAPPY FACE PLUS 11/16 at 6pm bit.ly/2iigtST
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November 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Erica & David Laros’s MY GHOSTSis still in the works, but the magic is already there—a writer battling Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Jack Wilson as they haunt him toward greatness. A brilliant new musical taking shape.
www.myghostsareinme.com
bit.ly/3WWCPd2
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
David Rackoff’s NOTHING LIKE BROADWAY:Wannabe cabaret singers,spies,mysterious pill converge for fun,
Fringey show w/heightened music,high falutin plots & plenty of hijinks.Cast-funny & can sing!EVA:😍 STEPHEN:Mixed Face End 11/23 bit.ly/2iigtST
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November 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Joe Murphy & Joe Robertson’s KYOTO:Lengths Don Pearlman will go to sabotage climate control summits.
Fascinating behind scenes look from 1989 as world leaders grapple w/climate change. Remarkable cast.
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www.lct.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Preston Max Allen’s CAROLINE:3 generations of women coming to terms w/past drug addiction, trans kid,
redemption. Beautifully acted.
Especially by River Lipe-Smith as Caroline.
2 HAPPY FACES End 11/16 bit.ly/2iigtST
mcctheater.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Linus Karp & Joseph Martin's GWYNETH GOES SKIING:
Terry Sanderson's suit vs.Gwyneth Paltrow gets hilarious,clever must see treatment.
MAJOR HAPPY FACE End 11/16 bit.ly/2iigtST
www.sohoplayhouse.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
John Leguizamo’s THE OTHER AMERICANS:Latino family up against the American Dream;Dad's expectations for son.Fraught & funny. Outstanding cast & production.
2 HAPPY FACE+ End 11/23 bit.ly/2iigtST
publictheater.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Zoë Kim’s DID YOU EAT? is a brutal portrayal of what it means to be a daughter in South Korea & the idea of what is love language.Did you eat? could mean I love you & other things as well.Elegantly performed.
HAPPY FACE-End 11/16 bit.ly/2iigtST
publictheater.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Marco Ramirez’s BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB looks behind 1997 Grammy award winning album of BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB going back to 1956.We see the younger & older versions.Sacrifices made.Pulsating music.Lithesome ensemble. 2 😍🥰 bit.ly/2iigtST
buenavistamusical.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Leo McGann’s THE HONEY TRAP:Years later coming to terms w/incident from Irish Troubles.Superbly acted & fraught w/suspense.
Stephen: 😀
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irishrep.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Shaw's PYGMALION: Cockney flower girl has Prof. Higgins teach her to speak properly & what it does to both of them. Finally the proper Shaw version.
Beautifully acted & directed!
MAJOR HAPPY FACE End 11/22 bit.ly/2iigtST
gingoldgroup.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Clifford Odets’ 1935 play AWAKE AND SING:
MARK:Depression era Jewish family is given a thoughtful & satisfying production. 😃
EVA:Non-Jews acted like Jewish caricatures w/stereotypical accents.Very insulting;No set,props. 😠
End 11/8 bit.ly/2iigtST
shorturl.at/huIEs
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Keythe Farley & Brian Flemming's BAT BOY:THE MUSICAL w/Music & Lyrics-Laurence O'Keefe:Unhinged tabloid story turned campy musical bout boy found in cave & transformation back into society.
MIXED FACE😍1st act😞2nd act End 11/9
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November 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Folksbiene's HANNAH SENESH:Based upon her diaries & poems.She lived during rise of Nazis in Hungary.Jennifer Apple astoundingly goes as Hannah from adolescent,teen,young
woman & her own mom.Spent time in Palestine.
2😍🥰End 11/9 bit.ly/2iigtST
nytf.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Torrey Townsend's JEWISH PLOT starts with an amusing Victorian Melodrama & degenerates into a harangue about Israel, Gaza & who knows what else. Stay for delightful 1st part & flee before the forever monologue attacks you.
😍😠End 11/7 bit.ly/2iigtST
www.jewishplot.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
HI! DRAMA:
REVIEWS:
Punch
And The We Were No More
Nothing To Take You From The Hand Of G-d
Oh Happy Day!
Blue Cowboy
Dreadful Episodes
INTERVIEWS:
Rosie Corr (Matt and Ben)
Lauren Duca (How Embarrassing Is Jesus?)
PLUGS
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@theatrecritics.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Tim Blake Nelson’s AND THEN WE WERE NO MORE:A lawyer represents a murderess scheduled for execution in a dystopian future w/painless executions.
Disappointing play but great performers.
2 MIXED FACES End 11/2 bit.ly/2iigtST
www.lamama.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
David Cale’s BLUE COWBOY: David Cale in Idaho tries to write impossible screenplay surrounded by elk, sheep
& mountains. Unexpectedly befriends a cowboy & his dog. Tender & Hilarious. Cale's a master story teller.
BEYOND 😍End 11/15 bit.ly/2iigtST
shorturl.at/282MR
October 30, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Jordan E. Cooper’s OH HAPPY DAY: Son returns home to save family from flood,but won't listen to him because of his past mistakes & present life style.G-d or trio of Divas try to help.Exquisite acting & singing.
2 HAPPY FACE End 11/9 bit.ly/2iigtST
publictheater.org
October 30, 2025 at 4:42 AM
James Graham's PUNCH: Working class Nottingham lad kills another young man with one punch in a brawl; Thru a strange but deep connection with the dead boy’s parents, he becomes a better person. Fantastic Cast!
2 😍🥰 End 11/2 bit.ly/2iigtST
www.manhattantheatreclub.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Joshua William Gelb & Normandy Sherwood’s PHANTOM OF THE OPERA: Theater in Quarantine’s take on the infamous tale of the malicious over-controlling Phantom haunting his muse Christine. Inventive & ingenious. Perfect Halloween treat!
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nyuskirball.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM