#This is the Broadway show to see right now

#This is the Broadway show to see right now

“#This is the Broadway show to see right now” Minutes into the musical “Company,” which opened Thursday night at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, you’re overcome by a sensation that’s eluded the rest of this tricky theater season — that Broadway really is back. Finally, a smart, funny, human revival about the highs and lows…

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#Hollywood signs J.K. Simmons up for endless roles

#Hollywood signs J.K. Simmons up for endless roles

“#Hollywood signs J.K. Simmons up for endless roles” Hollywood signs ’em up J.K. Simmons. He’s in “Being the Ricardos” playing Lucille Ball’s next-door neighbor Fred, who for real was played by William Frawley. He’s also in endless insurance commercials. He now has a white beard so fluffy puffy that, comparatively, Santa looks clean-shaven. “The beard’s…

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#Stephen Sondheim was a seismic Broadway force

#Stephen Sondheim was a seismic Broadway force

“#Stephen Sondheim was a seismic Broadway force” As the houselights went down the other week on the first performance of “Company” since the COVID shutdown, an old man, wearing a ratty sweater, slipped into the theater from a side entrance. If he hoped to be unobtrusive, he failed. The audience recognized him immediately – Stephen…

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#A Lifetime Original Broadway show

#A Lifetime Original Broadway show

“#A Lifetime Original Broadway show” Theater review 2 hours and 15 minutes, with one intermission. At the Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48th St. The time is now, the Di is here! A month after releasing an internationally ridiculed Netflix special, and making it through three weeks of boozy, expletive-filled previews at the Longacre Theatre, “Diana:…

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#’Diana the Musical’ is the legendary flop Broadway deserves

#’Diana the Musical’ is the legendary flop Broadway deserves

“#’Diana the Musical’ is the legendary flop Broadway deserves” Broadway wouldn’t really be back unless there was one show playing that’s so ridiculous, we’re baffled by its very existence. Disgusted. Mesmerized. Offended. Addicted. Nose up. Eyes wide. Stop! Keep going … A proud piece of trash that was somehow developed and tweaked for years with…

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#The wives of Henry VIII are divas on Broadway

#The wives of Henry VIII are divas on Broadway

“#The wives of Henry VIII are divas on Broadway” Theater review 80 minutes, no intermission. At the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 256 West 47th St. 212-719-4099 Rare is the girl-power show in which the characters died 500 years ago. But that’s “Six,” the new musical about Henry VIII’s sextet of wronged wives that finally opened Sunday…

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