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Shrek the Musical Shrek the Musical
3 stars
Broadway Theater
Musical staging of the popular animated film about a big green ogre.
Prayer for my Enemy Prayer For My Enemy
3 stars
Playwrights Horizons
Jonathan Groff stars in Craig Lucas' new play about a young soldier.
The Black Monk The Black Monk
1 stars
Beckett Theatre
Austin Pendleton stars in Wendy Kesselman's chamber musical based on a Chekhov short story.
Liza Liza's at the Palace...
4 stars
Palace Theatre
A triumphant turn from Ms Minnelli as the first snow falls on New York.
Hillary Hillary: A Modern Greek Tragedy With A (Somewhat) Happy Ending
3 stars
Living Theatre
The Gods toy with the fate of the Clintons in Wendy Weiner's new play.
Geometry Geometry of Fire
4 stars
Rattlestick Theatre
Stephen Belber's play about a former Marine and a young man of Saudi descent.
Dividing The Estate Dividing The Estate
6 stars
Booth Theatre
Revised staging of Horton Foote's dysfunctional family drama.
Road Show Road Show
4 stars
Public Theatre
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's new musical about two enterprising brothers
Back Back Back Back Back Back
3 stars
City Center
Itamar Moses's new play about baseball's recent steroid scandal.
American Buffalo American Buffalo
2 stars
Belasco Theatre
Haley Joel Osment and John Leguizamo star in David Mamet's three-hander.
Waves Waves
5 stars
The Duke on 42nd Street
Katie Mitchell's innovative production is staged as part of the Lincoln Centre's Great Performers season.
Farragut North Farragut North
5 stars
Linda Gross Theater
Sex and the City's Mr Big, Chris Noth, stars in Beau Willimon's political drama.
Shogun Macbeth Shogun Macbeth
2 stars
Julia Miles Theatre
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre stage a Japanese-set version of Shakespeare's play.
The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents
4 stars
The Wild Project
Lukas Bärfuss's play about the sexual awakening of a young woman with learning disablities.
Happy Now? Happy Now?
3 stars
Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven
Yale Rep stages Lucinda Coxon's play of thirty-something angst.
Bury The Dead Bury The Dead
3 stars
Connelly Theatre
The Transport Group's revival of Irwin Shaw's 1936 anti-war play.
Unusual Acts of Devotion Unusual Acts of Devotion
4 stars
Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Theatre Company stage Terrence McNally's new play set in a Greenwich Village apartment building.
Grand Inquisitor The Grand Inquisitor
2 stars
New York Theatre Workshop
Peter Brook directs a new work based on Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Language of Trees The Language of Trees
3 stars
Black Box Theatre
Roundabout Theatre stage Steven Levenson's new play
Romantic Poetry Romantic Poetry
City Center
Frothy new musical by the Pulitzer-winning John Patrick Shanley.
Illyria Love Child
59E59 Theatre
Off-Broadway two-hander about a group of actors trying to put on a show.
Illyria Illyria
Hudson Guild Theatre
Prospect Theatre present a musical reworking of Twelfth Night.
Speed-The-Plow Speed-the-Plow
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Jeremy Piven stars in the Broadway staging of David Mamet's classic three-hander.
Basic Training Basic Training
Barrow Street Theatre
Kahlil Ashanti's entertaining one man show about life in the U.S. Air Force.
Capture Now Capture Now
Theatres on 45 Bleecker Street
Josh Jonas' emotive solo show about a man remembering his younger brother.
Boys' Life Boys' Life
Second Stage Theatre
Jason Biggs stars in Howard Korder's 1988 play about three former college room-mates.
Rock of Ages All My Sons
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Katie Holmes makes her Broadway debut alongside John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest.
Rock of Ages Rock of Ages
New World Stages
Big hair and big noise in a new jukebox musical celebrating the excess of 80s rock.
To Be Or Not To Be To Be Or Not To Be
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
David Rasche stars in a Broadway staging of the 1940s film about a theatre troupe.
Black Watch Black Watch
St Ann's Warehouse
The acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland production returns to New York.
A Body Of Water A Body Of Water
59E59 Theater
Christine Lahti stars in Leo Blessing's enigmatic play of memory.
Corpus Christi Corpus Christi
Rattlestick Theater
Tenth anniversary production of Terrence McNally's play.
Kindness Kindness
Playwrights Horizons
New play by Adam Rapp about a terminally ill woman who travels to New York with her son.
Blasted Blasted
Soho Rep
Sarah Benson directs the first New York staging of Sarah Kane's audacious play.
A Man For All Seasons A Man For All Seasons
American Airlines Theatre
Frank Langella stars as Sir Thomas More in a solid revival of Robert Bolt's play.
13 13
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
A cast of thirteen under-18s feature in Jason Robert Brown's new teen musical.
The Seagull The Seagull
Walter Kerr Theatre
Kristin Scott Thomas stars in the Broadway transfer of the Royal Court's acclaimed production.
Passion Play Passion Play
Yale Repertory Theatre @ University Theatre, New Haven
Mark Wing-Davey directs Sarah Ruhl's ambitious, century-straddling play.
Fifty Words Fifty Words
Lucille Lortel Theatre
MCC Theater stages Michael Weller's new play about a marriage on the verge of collapse.
Wig Out! Wig Out!
Vineyard Theatre
Tarell Alvin McCraney's delve into the world of competitive drag balls.
Equus Equus
Broadhurst Theatre
Daniel Radcliffe makes his Broadway debut as a disturbed young man in a revival of Peter Shaffer's play.
A Tale Of Two Cities A Tale Of Two Cities
Al Hirschfeld Theatre
James Barbour stars in a lavish musical staging of the Dickens' novel.
The Tempest The Tempest
Classic Stage Company
Mandy Patinkin plays Prospero in a production of Shakespeare's late play.
Beast Beast
New York Theatre Workshop
Michael Weller's 'fever dream in six scenes' about the Iraq war.
Two Spoons Two Spoons
Bank Steet Theatre
Peter Mercurio's domestic comedy follows a gay couple on the eve of their marriage.
King Of Shadows King Of Shadows
Theater for the New City
New play from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa based on his experiences mentoring homeless LGBT youths.
Hair Hair
Delacorte Theatre
Spring Awakening's Jonathan Groff stars in a Central Park staging of the counter-cultural musical.
Animals Out Of Paper Animals Out Of Paper
McGinn/Cazale Theatre
Rajiv Joseph's origami-inspired play, part of the Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series.
Some Americans Abroad Some Americans Abroad
Second Stage Theatre
A revival of Richard Nelson's play about a group of American college professors on a trip through literary England.
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Lyceum Theatre
Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen's musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical.
Damn Yankees Damn Yankees
City Center
Jane Krakowski and Will and Grace's Sean Hayes star in the Encores! production of this American perennial.
Cirque Dreams Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy
Broadway Theatre
The big, colourful, family orientated circus show sets up home on Broadway for the summer
reasons to be pretty reasons to be pretty
Lucille Lortel Theatre
Terry Kinney directs the third installment of Neil LaBute's trio of plays on body image
In The Heights In The Heights
Richard Rodgers Theatre
Lin-Manuel Miranda's energetic new musical set within a lively Latin neigbourhood in New York City
Top Girls Top Girls
Manhattan Theatre Club at the Biltmore Theatre
Marisa Tomei, Martha Plimpton and Mary Beth Hurt star in the Manhattan Theatre Club Production of Caryl Churchill's play
Top Girls A Catered Affair
Walter Kerr Theatre
Harvey Fierstein and Faith Prince star in a Bronx-set musical of matrimony and family.
Passing Strange Passing Strange
Belasco Theatre
Jagged and idiosyncratic autobiographical musical from musician Stew.
Sunday In The Park With George Sunday In The Park With George
Studio 54
Jenna Russell and Daniel Evans star in the Menier's acclaimed production of the Stephen Sondheim musical
NOW IN THEATRE
FEATURE: The musicOMH London theatre top ten of 2008!

FEATURE: musicOMH's New York theatre highlights of 2008

NEW YORK: The Atlantic Theatre Company stage The Cripple of Inishmaan

OFF WEST END: Marina Carr's The Cordelia Dream at Wilton's Music Hall

OFF WEST END: David Haig stars in Joe Orton's Loot at the Tricycle

WEST END: A small scale revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard

NEW YORK: Shrek the Musical opens on Broadway

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