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1. REVIEW: ‘Galileo’ keeps it cool
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

F. Murray Abraham stars as the 17th-century scientist in Brecht’s historical drama BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW Although the great scientist Galileo faces the flames ...

2. REVIEW: ‘The Broken Heart’ lies a-bleeding
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

Rare revival of 1629 tragedy produces a complicated play easier read than done BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW Over the last 30 years, Theatre for a New Audience has ...

3. REVIEW: ‘Blood Knot’ twists with time
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

Athol Fugard’s early apartheid drama inaugurates a handsome theater complex BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW Before reviewing Signature Theatre’s worthy revival of ...

4. REVIEW: William Shatner reveals his ‘World’
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

‘Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It’ chronicles a star’s trek through life BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BROADWAY REVEW A congenial encounter with an idiosyncratic personality, “Shatner’s ...

5. REVIEW: ‘CQ/CX’ covers the changing Times
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

New drama dishes out a New York Times scandal about a rogue reporter BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW An ambitious new drama by Gabe McKinley, “CQ/CX” is a lightly fictionalized ...

6. REVIEW: ‘How I Learned to Drive’ travels to disturbing places
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

Elizabeth Reaser and Norbert Leo Butz share a taboo emotional journey BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW Even the best vehicle can travel only so far with a flat tire ...

7. REVIEW: ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ rolls along again
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

Stephen Sondheim musical about the reversals of friendship returns via Encores! BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW The short-lived Broadway production of “Merrily We ...

8. REVIEW: Skip ‘Psycho Therapy’
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

New comedy lacks personality, laughs and reason for being BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW “Psycho Therapy” is one of those lame comedies that might have seemed sexy ...

9. REVIEW: ‘Rx’ lightly considers drugs
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

New comedy makes fun of the pharmaceutical industry BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW Playwright Kate Fodor was last represented in New York back in 2007 with “100 Saints ...

10. REVIEW: ‘Myths and Hymns’ relate sad times
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

Adam Guettel art songs are recycled as a grim family tale BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW “Myth and Hymns” is a new version of Adam Guettel’s “Saturn Returns,” his ...

11. REVIEW: ‘Look Back in Anger’ rebooted for today
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

Matthew Rhys stars as the angry young man in a stylized revival of a British classic BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW England’s classic Angry Young Man of “Look Back ...

12. REVIEW: ‘Ionescopade’ offers warped wit
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

York Theatre revives a musical revue drawn from Ionesco’s absurd works BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW The York Theatre Company has been developing new musicals and ...

13. REVIEW: Learn about ‘Russian Transport’
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

Janeane Garofalo heads a Brooklyn family of Russian émigrés in New Group’s premiere BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW A new drama by Erika Sheffer about a Brooklyn ...

14. REVIEW: Cynthia Nixon reveals a chilly ‘Wit’
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

Pulitzer-winning drama about a dying college don revived by Manhattan Theatre Club BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BROADWAY REVIEW The winner of the Pulitzer, the New York Drama Critics’ ...

15. REVIEW: ‘Yosemite’ studies misery
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

Kathryn Erbe portrays a sorrowful mom in Daniel Talbott’s new drama BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW Rattlestick Playwrights Theater gives Daniel Talbott’s “Yosemite” ...

16. REVIEW: Kevin Spacey rages powerfully as ‘Richard III’
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

Sam Mendes stages impressive Shakespeare production at BAM BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW Said to be Shakespeare’s first big hit and also the first of his plays to ...

17. REVIEW: ‘The Road to Mecca’ eventually glows
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

Rosemary Harris heads Roundabout’s revival of Athol Fugard’s drama BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BROADWAY REVIEW Perhaps best known for “Master Harold and the Boys,” Athol Fugard has ...

18. REVIEW: ‘Porgy and Bess’ revamped as a Broadway musical
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis costar in a new version of the Gershwin masterpiece BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BROADWAY REVIEW Officially billed as “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” – ...

19. REVIEW: ‘Outside People’ recalls ‘Chinglish’
(Entertainment/Movies)

New play studies a hapless American’s affairs in Beijing BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW A new play premiering on Tuesday at Vineyard Theatre, “Outside People” has ...

20. REVIEW: ‘Super Night Shot’ starts Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

Gob Squad’s ever-changing video event appears in experimental theater showcase BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW The new year of theatergoing begins with the eighth annual ...