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Broadway Shows - Past Shows

 
42nd Street musical comedy family
Critics = 3.8
Looking for some "hip-hooray and ballyhoo?" Want to hear "the lullaby of Broadway?" Try 42nd Street, the musical, on 42nd Street, the street.

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A Naked Girl on the Appian Way play comedy
Critics = 2.4
The verbal pyrotechnics of playwright Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out, The Violet Hour) return to Broadway by way of this comedy about two children coming home from a European vacation.
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A Raisin in the Sun play drama
Critics = 2.8
Sean ("P. Diddy") Combs comes to the Old School of Broadway in a revival of the classic play.

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A Streetcar Named Desire play drama
Critics = 2.3
A revival of Tennessee Williams' gritty drama of dreams and desire, starring Natasha Richardson and John C. Reilly.
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A Touch of the Poet play drama
Critics = 3.3
The meat-and-potatoes drama of the season is likely to be this revival of Eugene O'Neill's tragedy of old graces and new ambitions. Gabriel Byrne leads the cast.
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A Year with Frog and Toad musical comedydrama family
Critics = 3.7
Mark Linn-Baker stars in this adaptation of the popular series of children's books.

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Absurd Person Singular play comedy
Critics = 2.4
From MTC, a revival of Alan Ayckbourn's comedy - a skewering of modern manners, with a soupçon of the tragic.
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After The Fall play drama
Critics = 1.7
Arthur Miller's heartfelt drama of recollection and atonement, presented for a limited run by the Roundabout Theatre.

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After the Night and the Music play comedy
Critics = 1.9
From Manhattan Theatre Club, three new one-acts from legendary comedienne Elaine May.
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Aida musical drama family
Critics = 1.8
Disney’s second Broadway effort, this is a teen-friendly telling of the classic operatic story of true love.

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All Shook Up musical comedy family
Critics = 2.3
A new musical featuring the songs of Elvis Presley plays the Palace.

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Amour musical drama
Critics = 2.8
A witty musical comedy about an unimportant civil servant who is suddenly able to walk through walls.

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Anna in the Tropics play drama
Critics = 3.0
Jimmy Smits and Daphne Rubin-Vega star in this steamy drama set in a Cuban cigar factory in Florida during the Great Depression. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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Antony Sher: Primo play drama
Critics = 3.8
Anthony Sher brings his one man show about Holocaust survivor Primo Levi to Broadway.

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As Long As We Both Shall Laugh play comedy
Critics = 2.3
The comedian Yakov Smirnoff brings his act to the American Airlines Theatre on 42nd street.

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Assassins musical comedydrama
Critics = 3.2
Sondheim's jaunty and jarring musical about the American presidential assassin makes its Broadway debut. One of the big winners at the 2004 Tony Awards.

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Barbara Cook's Broadway musical comedydrama
Critics = 4.3
The eminent and extraordinary Barbara Cook returns to Broadway with her one-woman show.

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Barbara Cook/Mostly Sondheim musical comedydrama
Critics = 4.4
MOSTLY SONDHEIM features Miss Cook along with Wally Harper on piano and Jon Burr on Bass, performing an evening of songs by composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim, as well as songs by such composers and lyricists as Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg, Cy Coleman & Dorothy Fields, Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick and Irving Berlin.

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Barefoot in the Park play comedy
Critics = 2.0
Neil Simon's romantic comedy about newlyweds moving into a fifth-floor walkup apartment. Amanda Peet and Patrick Wilson star.
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Big River musical comedydrama
Critics = 3.4
Huck Finn drifts back through the civilized territories of Broadway in a production which features extensive use of American Sign Language.

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Bill Maher's Victory Begins At Home play comedy
Critics = 3.5
The irascible late-night talk show host brings his standup routine to Broadway for a month or so. Formerly the host of ABC's "Politically Incorrect", he was fired after lauding the courage of the 9/11 hijackers shortly after the attacks.

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Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays play comedy
Critics = 3.7
Billy Crystal comes to Broadway with a heartwarming autobiographical one-man show.
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Bobbi Boland play drama
Critics = not yet rated
1967. Farrah Fawcett stars as a fortysomething former beauty queen in Florida forced to defend her marriage from a dewy-eyed hippie ingénue.

1967. Farrah Fawcett stars as a fortysomething former beauty queen in Florida forced to defend her marriage from a dewy-eyed hippie ingénue.Closing Date at the Cort Theater: November 9, 2003 (after one week of previews)When this play came to Off-Broadway a couple years back (starring the playwright), critics were surprised at how low the star of the show was brought by the end of the evening. But in her seemingly passé 1950’s-era strength and resilience there is an enduring beauty, and this beguiling strength is unblinkingly brought to the spotlight in this sharply-drawn drama.From the producers:Set in the late 1960's BOBBI BOLAND tells the tale of a former Miss Florida who now teaches charm and deportment to young girls in a small Florida town.Official Opening Night: November 24, 2003.
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Bombay Dreams musical drama family
Critics = 1.7
The London mega-musical about a star-struck Bollywood actor comes to the Great White Way. (Based on an idea by Andrew Lloyd Webber.)

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Brian Stokes Mitchell: Love/Life musical comedydrama
Critics = 4.0
Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell brings an evening of song to the Vivian Beaumont on Sunday and Monday nights.
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Brooklyn musical comedydrama
Critics = 1.6
A small, scrappy and soulful new rock musical plays the Plymouth - A young girl seaches for the father she never knew.
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Brooklyn Boy play drama
Critics = 3.1
At the Biltmore, Manahattan Theatre Club presents a new drama by Donald Margulies (Dinner With Friends, Sight Unseen).

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Cabaret musical drama
Critics = 4.3
This innovative revival breaks new ground by placing its audience in the middle of the action. Studio 54 becomes the "Kit-Kat Club", a seedy nightclub in Weimar Germany where performers and patrons play out their decadent and desperate hands.

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Caroline, or Change musical drama
Critics = 2.9
From downtown's Public Theater, a new work from Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and Jeanine Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie) about the civil rights struggles of the 1960's.

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof play drama
Critics = 2.2
Tennessee Williams' sultry drama of worn-down dreams and slumbering passions, starring Jason Patric and Ned Beatty.

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Chicago - Performances after 1/28/2003 musical drama
Critics = 4.8
An elegantly stylish and sparse revival of Kander & Ebb's gritty musical - lust, treachery, and murder among chorus girls and backstage types in old Chicago.

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Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life musical comedydrama
Critics = 2.7
Chita Rivera tells how she got to be Chita Rivera in this new bio-musical.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang musical comedy family
Critics = 2.3
The family-friendly musical-comedy confection chugs into one of Broadway's largest theatres - direct from London (but with a new American cast).
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Contact musical comedydrama
Critics = 4.7
Susan Stroman and John Weidman's extended meditation on the power of movement.
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Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance play comedy
Critics = 3.4
The popular and charismatic cross-dressing comedian returns to Broadway with another evening of slapstick and slapdash verbal attacks on the audience.
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Dance of the Vampires musical drama
Critics = 1.3
Michael Crawford, best known as the original "Phantom of the Opera", returns to Broadway in this dark and playful musical by Grammy-winning composer Jim Steinman after the film by Roman Polanski.

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Def Poetry Jam play comedydrama
Critics = 4.0
Nine poets and one DJ come to the Old School of Broadway to slam words, thoughts, breaths, and chords together. Based on the hit HBO series of the same name.

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Democracy play drama
Critics = 3.3
Direct from London, the National Theatre's production of Michael Frayn's drama of espionage and politics.
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Dinner at Eight play comedy
Critics = 3.6
George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's comedy, telling the stories and secrets of guests invited to a lavish dinner party during the Great Depression.

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Dracula musical drama
Critics = 1.2
A dark fantasy from one of Broadway’s leading composers (The Civil War, The Scarlet Pimpernel) plays the Belasco, a theatre long rumored to be haunted.

A dark fantasy from one of Broadway’s leading composers (The Civil War, The Scarlet Pimpernel) plays the Belasco, a theatre long rumored to be haunted.Closing Date at the Belasco: January 2, 2005The pleasures of Victorian theatre are in fine form at the Belasco these days. A century and a half ago, ladies and gentlemen arrived at the theatre in tight-laced evening wear to contemplate scantily clad actresses speaking Romantic fantasies of death and forbidden desire. The stage was a magical room, newly enhanced with modern mechanical tricks that made scenery fly and actors seem to float. This adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel text.
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Drowning Crow play drama
Critics = 1.7
An adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull, this is the second offering in Manhattan Theater Club's inaugural Broadway season.

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Enchanted April play comedy
Critics = 3.1
A romantic comedy set in an idyllic Italian villa, starring Elizabeth Ashley and Jayne Atkinson.

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Eve Ensler: The Good Body play comedydrama
Critics = 2.3
Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues) brings a one-woman rumination on fitness and beauty to Broadway.

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Festen play drama
Critics = 1.8
An adaptation of the 1998 film about suspicion, guilt, and the dark shadows cast by a long life - Larry Bryggman and Juliana Margulies star.
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Fiddler on the Roof musical comedydrama family
Critics = 3.0
In this fresh-eyed production of the traditional musical, a family reckons with how to honor the old ways in a changing world - Harvey Fierstein and Rosie O'Donnell star.
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Flower Drum Song musical comedydrama family
Critics = 2.5
Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang has revitalized Flower Drum Song, and the result is a rare treat - a big, bright Broadway musical that will make you hungry for some good dim sum, and give you plenty to talk about while you enjoy it.

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Forever Tango musical comedydrama
Critics = 3.0
The international dance spectacle, which had a long run on Broadway in the late 1990's, returns to one of Broadway's signature houses.

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Fortune's Fool play comedy
Critics = 2.9
Turgenev's melancholy comedy about surviving whatever comes. (Something that the Russians always seem to be full of advice on.)
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Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune play drama
Critics = 3.2
A lonely short-order cook and a cynical waitress find love in spite of themselves.

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Frozen play drama
Critics = 3.8
Last season’s surprise transfer from Off-Broadway, this is a chilling contemplation of the mind of a child-murderer.

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Gem of the Ocean play drama
Critics = 3.5
In this incantory and incandescent new drama, August Wilson describes the African-American experience at the beginning of the last century.

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Glengarry Glen Ross play drama
Critics = 3.9
David Mamet's drama about desperate salesmen comes to Broadway starring Alan Alda and Tony-winner Liev Schrieber.
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Golda's Balcony play drama
Critics = 3.6
Tovah Feldshuh stars as the indomitable Golda Meir, the former Milwaukee schoolteacher turned Israeli Prime Minister in this one-woman biographical drama by William Gibson (The Miracle Worker).

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Good Vibrations musical comedydrama
Critics = 1.2
In the middle of the New York winter, a little 'California dreaming' on 49th Street with the music of the Beach Boys.
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Gypsy musical drama
Critics = 3.8
Bernadette Peters steps into the limelight as "Mamma Rose" in this revival of the 1959 Styne/Sondheim/Laurents musical based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.

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Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight play comedydrama
Critics = 3.3
Courtesy of actor Hal Holbrook, legendary writer Mark Twain stops by the Brooks Atkinson Theatre each night for a chat.
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Henry IV play drama
Critics = 4.3
The aging king's son, a vain and troubled youth, makes his way to his father's throne in Shakespeare's history play.

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Hollywood Arms play comedydrama
Critics = 2.5
Carol Burnett's memoir, adapted for the stage by Ms. Burnett and her daughter, Carrie Hamilton.

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I Am My Own Wife play drama
Critics = 3.9
Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this is a one-man-show about a German transvestite with a penchant for collecting who survived both the Nazis and the Stasi. Based on a true story.

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I'm Not Rappaport play comedy
Critics = 3.9
Judd Hirsch and Ben Vereen star in this tale of two cantankerous codgers who refuse to go gently into the quiet of old age.

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Imaginary Friends play drama
Critics = 3.0
A "play with music" about the real-life antagonism between Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy.

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In My Life musical comedydrama
Critics = 1.3
A girl with phobias and a guy with Tourette's Syndrome discover the madness of love in this new musical.
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Into The Woods musical drama family
Critics = 3.7
A revival of Stephen Sondheim's powerful musical about magic beans, witches, damsels in towers, and walking through the woods alone at night.

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Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed play comedy
Critics = 2.9
The rambunctious Rebbe returns to Broadway with a new show dripping with trenchant insights.
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Jackie Mason: Laughing Room Only musical comedy
Critics = 1.5
Known for the solo standup routine which he's brought to Broadway seven times now, Jackie Mason presents an original musical. Sort of.

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Jackie Mason: Prune Danish play comedy
Critics = 3.7
The sultan of schtick returns to Broadway with his latest one-man show.

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Julius Caesar play drama
Critics = 1.8
Denzel Washington returns to Broadway in Shakespeare's classic drama of political ambition.
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Jumpers play comedydrama
Critics = 2.8
Direct from London, this intellectual comedy/murder mystery was penned by Tom Stoppard (thirty years ago) - the revival stars Simon Russell Beale.

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King Lear (Lincoln Center) play comedydrama
Critics = 3.0
At Lincoln Center, Christopher Plummer plays the title role in Shakespeare’s great tragedy.

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La Boheme musical comedydrama
Critics = 4.1
Baz Luhrmann's (Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet) lavish staging of Puccini's opera about the lives of struggling artists. (Sung in Italian, with subtitles.)

(This is the opera that Rent is based on.)

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La Cage aux Folles musical comedy
Critics = 2.8
A revival of the classic Broadway musical - two gay lovers are shocked when their son announces that he intends to wed the daughter of a local morals crusader - Robert Goulet stars.
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Latinologues play comedy
Critics = 2.1
No, not the Pope's one-man-show. This is a collection of monologues about the Latino experience, playing the intimate confines of the Helen Hayes - Cheech Marin directs.
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Lennon musical drama
Critics = 1.5
This impassioned and earnest bio-revue of John Lennon's (mostly non-Beatles) work is an intriguing Broadway curio, an atypical musical about an atypical fellow.

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Les Miserables musical drama family
Critics = 4.2
The second longest running show in Broadway history - Les Miserables tells the story of an ill-fated revolution in the streets of nineteenth-century Paris.

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Lestat musical drama
Critics = 1.4
A new musical from Elton John based on Anne Rice's vampire stories.
2 Tony Award nominations
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Life x 3 play comedy
Critics = 2.6
At the beginning of Yazmina Reza's riotously funny comedic drama, a husband and wife are putting their son to bed when unexpected guests arrive.

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Little Shop of Horrors musical comedy family
Critics = 3.0
Seymour, a drab and meek florist's assistant, finds a strange small plant, takes care of it, and names it after Audrey, his secret crush. Unfortunately, the plant turns out to be a ravenous flesh-eating space alien intent on world domination. Who knew?

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Little Women musical drama family
Critics = 2.1
Sutton Foster (Thoroughly Modern Millie) and Maureen McGovern star in this staging of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel.
Sutton Foster (Thoroughly Modern Millie) and Maureen McGovern star in this staging of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel. Closing Date at the Virginia: May 22, 2005At the Virginia, this retelling of Alcott's story of a writer and her three young sisters (text).
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Long Day's Journey Into Night play drama
Critics = 4.4
A true classic - Eugene O'Neill's slow-burning recollection of his deeply troubled family. Though this is the most critically-acclaimed show on Broadway, at four hours, it's not for the faint of heart.

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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom play drama
Critics = 3.1
A revival of August Wilson's drama, starring Whoopi Goldberg and Charles S. Dutton ("Roc", The Piano Lesson).

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Man of La Mancha musical drama
Critics = 2.9
Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie star in a revival of the classic musical about a deluded, sorrowful knight and the lady of his dreams.

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Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Celebrating Sondheim musical comedydrama
Critics = 3.6
Accomplished songman Mandy Patinkin presents a concert wandering through the oeuvre of composer Steven Sondheim.

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Mario Cantone: Laugh Whore musical comedy
Critics = 2.7
A one-man-show from the hysterically histrionic Mario Cantone ("Sex and the City", Assassins).

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MASTER HAROLD ...and the boys play drama
Critics = 3.2
"Play it again, Sam..." Danny Glover returns to Broadway in a revival of "MASTER HAROLD" ...and the boys, Athol Fugard's drama about apartheid. Lonny Price (Urban Cowboy, A Class Act) directs.

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Match play comedydrama
Critics = 2.8
A new Broadway comedy-thriller starring Ray Liotta, Frank Langella, and Jane Adams.

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Medea play drama
Critics = 4.6
The acclaimed Abbey Theatre production of Euripides' drama of vengeance, starring Fiona Shaw.

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Metamorphoses play comedydrama
Critics = 4.8
Brush up your Bulfinch! This retelling of the myths of Ovid was the Off-Broadway surprise hit of the year.

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Morning's at Seven play comedy
Critics = 4.1
A bittersweet comedy about a tightly-knit Midwestern family in the 1930's, with a remarkable ensemble filled with both film stars and outstanding NYC stage actors.
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Movin' Out musical drama
Critics = 3.8
An evening-length rock ballet by Twyla Tharp, set to the songs of Billy Joel (performed live by an onstage band).
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Never Gonna Dance musical comedy family
Critics = 2.6
An adaptation of the film starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers about a fella who can't stop his legs from dancing to the infectious rhythms of the city.

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night, Mother play drama
Critics = 2.4
Marsha Norman's harrowing story of a mother and daughter 'on the edge', starring Edie Falco and Brenda Blethyn.

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Nine musical drama
Critics = 3.2
John Stamos, Eartha Kitt, Rebecca Luker and Mary Stuart Masterson star in a revival of the 1982 musical about a filmmaker at a creative dead-end.

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Noises Off play comedy
Critics = 4.3
A first-rate comedy about a second-rate theatre company staging a third-rate play. During its initial run on Broadway, several people literally laughed themselves out of their chairs.

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Oklahoma! musical drama family
Critics = 3.7
The quintessential American musical returns to Broadway.

The quintessential American musical returns to Broadway. Click here to purchase discount tickets.(via the Enterntainment-Link concierge service).
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All play drama
Critics = 1.6
A one-woman adaptation of the popular novel, as related by Ellen Burstyn.

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On Golden Pond play drama
Critics = 2.8
James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams star in a revival of the classic drama.
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Our Town play drama
Critics = 3.0
A quaint and loving portrait of a small American town at the beginning of the last century, starring Paul Newman.

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Pacific Overtures musical drama
Critics = 2.5
The Roundabout presents a revival of Sondheim's Tony Award winning musical at Studio 54.

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Private Lives play comedy
Critics = 4.7
Direct from London, Noël Coward's comedy about passion, true love, and enjoying life moment by moment. Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan star.

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Proof play drama
Critics = 4.3
David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the daughter of a famous mathematician. Less about mathematics than relationships between parent and child, and between mind and heart. Anne Heche currently stars as the daughter who has reached deep into her own psyche to offer a profound and loving gift.

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Prymate play drama
Critics = 1.0
Andre De Shields plays the title role in this play about a gorilla who communicates using sign language.

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Rabbit Hole play drama
Critics = 3.0
At the the Broadway home of Manhattan Theatre Club, a new drama about a family recovering from the death of a child - starring Cynthia Nixon, John Slattery and Tyne Daly.
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Reckless play comedy
Critics = 2.5
Two of Manhattan's largest nonprofit theatres join forces to stage this whimsical and bizarre comedy on Broadway. Mary Louise Parker and Rosie Perez star.

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Ring of Fire musical comedydrama
Critics = 1.9
The songs of the legendary Johnny Cash come to Broadway in this new show inspired more by the life in the songs than the life of the singer.
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Salome play drama
Critics = 2.4
A staged reading of Oscar Wilde's tale of biblical lust and decolletage. Al Pacino stars, Estelle Parsons directs.

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Say Goodnight, Gracie play comedy
Critics = 3.6
Impressionist Frank Gorshin (best known for playing "The Riddler" on the "Batman" TV series) stars in this one-man-show about George Burns.

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Seascape play drama
Critics = 3.4
Edward Albee's (The Goat, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) 1975 drama about a couple facing retirement, sitting on a beach. Albee being Albee, a very unusual couple approaches them and strikes up a conversation
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Seascape demo play drama
Critics = not yet rated
Edward Albee's (The Goat, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) 1975 drama about a couple facing retirement, sitting on a beach. Albee being Albee, a very unusual couple approaches them and strikes up a conversation.
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Sexaholix ...a love story play comedy
Critics = not yet rated
The frentic and finely-honed comic stylings of John Leguizamo return to Broadway in this reprise of his show about romance.

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Sight Unseen play drama
Critics = 3.1
The excellent Manhattan Theatre Club concludes its first Broadway subscription season with this drama about the esoteric and emotionally fraught world of high art.

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Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks play comedy
Critics = 1.2
A sharp-tongued dance instructor and a lady of a certain age trade barbs in this new dark comedy. Mark Hamill and Polly Bergen star.

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Sixteen Wounded play drama
Critics = 2.4
Judd Hirsch returns to Broadway in a new drama about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Sly Fox play comedy
Critics = 2.5
Larry Gelbart's San Francisco gold-rush adaptation of Volpone, Ben Jonson's classic farce, returns to Broadway, currently starring Richard Kind and Carol Kane.

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Souvenir play comedy
Critics = 2.9
Judy Kaye stars as the legendary incapable coloratura Florence Foster Jenkins in this new comedy with (terrible) music
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Steel Magnolias play drama
Critics = 2.4
The popular comic drama set in a New Orleans beauty shop comes to the Lyceum Theatre.
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Suzanne Somers: The Blonde in the Thunderbird musical comedydrama
Critics = 1.3
Suzanne Somers tells you how she got to be Suzanne Somers in this new one-person musical.
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Sweet Charity musical comedy
Critics = 2.5
Hey, big spender... Christina Applegate comes to Broadway in the classic (yet racy) 1960's Neil Simon/Cy Coleman/Dorothy Fields musical.
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Taboo musical drama
Critics = 1.8
Boy George stars as outré nightclub owner Leigh Bowery in this glitzy and provocative Olivier Award-winning musical produced by Rosie O’Donnell.

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Take Me Out play drama
Critics = 3.8
Darren Lemming, an iconic baseball star living the life of an all-American hero, calls a press conference and 'comes out' to the waiting world.

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Tartuffe play comedy
Critics = 3.0
Moliere’s comedy about a liar of consummate skill, starring British actor Henry Goodman.

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The Boy From Oz musical comedydrama
Critics = 2.6
Hugh Jackman stars in this telling of the tale of singer/songwriter Peter Allen ("I Honestly Love You", "The Theme From Arthur") from humble beginnings in the Australian outback to the flamboyant glam and glitter of pop stardom.

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The Boys From Syracuse musical comedy
Critics = 2.6
The Roundabout Theatre company presents the first Broadway revival of Rogers & Hart's comedy of eros.

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The Caine Mutiny Court Martial play drama
Critics = 2.2
David Schwimmer, Željko Ivanek, and Tim Daly star in a revival of the classic maritime suspense-mystery.
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The Caretaker play drama
Critics = 2.3
A revival of Harold Pinter's harrowing psychological drama at the Roundabout, starring Patrick Stewart.

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The Constant Wife play comedy
Critics = 3.3
W. Somerset Maugham's 1927 comedy of modern marriage plays a limited run at the Roundabout, starring Kate Burton and Lynn Redgrave.
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The Frogs musical comedy
Critics = 2.1
At Lincoln Center, Nathan Lane (The Producers, A Funny Thing Happened…) adapts and stars, Susan Stroman (Contact, The Producers) directs and choreographs, Stephen Sondheim (Assassins, Into the Woods) composes music and lyrics, and Aristophanes (The Archanians, The Clouds) serves up the story from the underworld.

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The Full Monty musical comedy
Critics = 4.0
A stage adaptation of the recent film about a group of average blue-collar workers who take up exotic dancing to make ends meet.
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The Glass Menagerie play drama
Critics = 1.8
Prominent British director David Leveaux helms a gossamer revival of Tennessee Williams' classic drama, starring Jessica Lange and Christian Slater.
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The Goat; or Who is Sylvia? play comedydrama
Critics = 3.2
Sally Field and Bill Irwin are now playing the lead roles in Edward Albee's (Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, Three Tall Women) latest. David Esbjornson, the longtime Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company, directs.

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The Graduate play drama
Critics = 1.7
Lorraine Bracco of "The Sopranos" stars in this story of a college grad just starting out in life who gets waylaid by an older woman. It's based both on the Mike Nichols film and the novel.

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The Lion King musical comedy family
Critics = 4.6
Julie Taymor's inventive retelling of Disney's animated hit took Broadway by storm in 1999 - and it's still roaring strong. Puppets and live actors weave a dreamscape of jungle characters as we follow the rise of young Simba to the throne.
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The Look of Love musical comedydrama
Critics = 1.8
Thirty of the stylish and sophisticated pop standards of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, with choreography by Ann Reinking (Chicago, Fosse). Scott Ellis directs.

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The Miracle Worker play drama
Critics = not yet rated
Hilary Swank plays Helen Keller's teacher in this revival of the 1959 drama about the power of connection.

Hilary Swank plays Helen Keller's teacher in this revival of the 1959 drama about the power of connection.The Broadway run of this production has been cancelled, according to the producers - apparently, the out-of-town tryout went a little south.The drama about the struggle to "win light through work" (Keller's words) is built around that first moment of connection between a deaf and blind girl and her teacher. It was a popular vaudeville act in the early 1900's (starring the two themselves), and was later made into a documentary. In 1959, it became a Broadway play, and then a popular film. Patty Duke (Aunt Eller in this year's Oklahoma) originated the role of Helen when this show first played Broadway.Note that Hilary Swank will not play Wednesday matineesOfficial Opening Night: April 24, 2003.
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The Odd Couple play comedy
Critics = 3.2
Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick return to Broadway in Neil Simon's classic comedy of cohabitation.
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The Pillowman play drama
Critics = 3.6
A disturbing new drama from London plays the Great White Way (with a new cast, including Jeff Goldblum and Billy Crudup).
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The Play What I Wrote play comedy
Critics = 3.0
Kenneth Branagh has directed this madcap, slap-happy comedy - a fantastic, foppish pas de deux (plus one) in the old British music-hall style.

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The Retreat From Moscow play drama
Critics = 2.8
Eileen Atkins, John Lithgow, and Ben Chaplin star in a new drama from William Nicholson (Shadowlands) about a middle-aged British schoolteacher's vanishing marriage.

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The Rivals play comedy
Critics = 2.8
At Lincoln Center, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 romantic comedy, starring Richard Easton, Dana Ivey, and Brian Murray.

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The Tale of the Allergist's Wife play comedy
Critics = 3.3
An adult comedy from the outrageously hilarious Charles Busch about an Upper West Side woman's identity crisis, and how a strangely familiar visitor changes her life.

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The Violet Hour play drama
Critics = 2.4
Broadway's Biltmore Theater, newly restored as a home for the nonprofit Manahattan Theater Club, lights its stage for the first time in 16 years with this new drama by Richard Greenberg (Three Days of Rain, The Dazzle, Take Me Out).

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The Woman in White musical drama
Critics = 2.9
Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical thriller - based on the Victorian novel.
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Thoroughly Modern Millie musical comedy family
Critics = 3.3
Playing a theatre in the center of Times Square, this musical comedy tells the story of a naive young woman coming to the big city in the middle of the Jazz Age, determined to make it big.

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Topdog/Underdog play drama
Critics = 4.4
The Pulitzer Prize winning Topdog/Underdog is one of the most exciting new plays to have come to Broadway in a long while. Orphaned brothers Lincoln and Booth (Cain and Abel would have been too obvious) share a one-room apartment and a fateful game of three-card-monte.

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Twelve Angry Men play drama
Critics = 2.9
From the not-for-profit Roundabout Theatre, the classic courtroom drama about right and wrong... and the truth.
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Twentieth Century play comedy
Critics = 1.9
Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche star in a revival of this 1932 slamming (compartment) door farce at the Roundabout.

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Urban Cowboy musical drama
Critics = 1.9
What's a cowboy to do in a world where all the buckin' broncs take quarters? This adaptation of the popular film features hits by Shania Twain, the Dixie Chicks and Clint Black, and original songs by Jeff Blumenkrantz and Jason Robert Brown (Parade, The Last Five Years).

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Urinetown: The Musical musical comedy
Critics = 3.8
This quirky, offbeat, neo-Malthusian musical comedy somehow found its way from a tiny theatre on the Lower East Side to the Great White Way. Set in the future, it tells the story of a few idealistic dreamers who decide to take on The Powers That Be.

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Vincent in Brixton play drama
Critics = 3.0
A new drama direct from London's National Theatre about the young Vincent Van Gogh's years in England.

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Well play comedydrama
Critics = 3.0
An earnest examination of healing turns into something else entirely when the playwright's mother writes herself into the play.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? play comedydrama
Critics = 3.4
Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin star in a revival of Edward Albee's vintage drama of marriage and its discontents.
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Whoopi! play comedy
Critics = 2.3
Whoopi Goldberg returns to Broadway with the one-woman show that she first performed 20 years ago. (In fairness, there are a few things in life worth doing 20 years after the first time you did them.)

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Wonderful Town musical comedy family
Critics = 3.8
Brooke Shields stars in Bernstein's bright and airy 1953 musical comedy about two sisters just off the bus from Ohio, determined to make it big in New York.

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