Long Running Shows

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You can use our Broadway Ticket Pointer as your shortcut to look up our reviews and to buy tickets for some of Broadway's longest-running shows, including Fiddler on the Roof, Jersey Boys, Lion King, Mamma Mia, The Odd Couple, Phantom of the Opera, The Producers, Spamalot and Wicked.

Broadway Reviews

"Gypsy" -- photo by Paul Kolnik.

"Gypsy" is back
As the quintessential stage mother who launched Gypsy Rose Lee on her career, Patti LuPone is brassy and vulnerable, calm and frenetic, distracted and intense. Her voice fills the theater and her heart takes over the stage. From the moment she steps onto the stage at the St. James Theatre, it's obvious she's going to make this role totally her own. Who could ask for more?

Sunday In the Park With George, the musical
By now everyone knows the story of this famous Stephen Sondheim's musical ( for this its third revival) that deals with Georges Seurat's remarkable pointillist painting of "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." Using the painting as a background (actually the main subject), Sondheim ingeniously attempts to dissect Seurat's egomaniacal obsession with his art, an obsession that leads to the painter's neglect of mother, lover, child, friend--anyone who may distract him from his all consuming, passionate commitment to painting. The most inventive aspect of this production is not so much its story (although that is fascinating too) but the director's (Sam Buntrock) use of modern technology: computerized images, digital projections, clever animations that show the painting coming to life, its beginning, its progress and its glorious end.

IN THE HEIGHTS -- Lin-Manuel Miranda (center). Photo by Joan Marcus.

Hip-Hop "In the Heights"
Set in Washington Heights, "In the Heights" celebrates in hip-hop and Latin music the ethnic diversity of a neighborhood that has seen radical changes in the past few decades. Now on Broadway. By Paulanne Simmons.

"The Color Purple" -- Victor Dixon, Felicia Fields. Photo by Paul Kolnik.

Color Me Purple
"The Color Purple" is a woman's musical cry of rage. It's a poignant, brassy, bluesy, R&B & gospel melodrama, an operetta-style protest in the tradition of "Porgy and Bess." By Lucy Komisar.

"Monty Python's Spamalot." (l-r) Michael McGrath, Tim Curry. Photo by Joan Marcus.

"Monty Python's Spamalot"
There's nothing like an outrageous political satire written by left-wing Brits! John Patrick Shanley, who won this year's Pulitzer Prize for "Doubt," wondered at a Drama Desk panel on theater and politics, which I moderated last year, why most plays were written by people on the left. The puzzle wasn't solved, but 'Monty Python's Spamalot' proves how lucky we are that it's true. And that Brits still have a vital leftist culture. By Lucy Komisar.

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