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Julia Polinsky wrote, directed, produced, and starred in her first play when she was 7 years old. She’s been paying a lot of attention to theater ever since.
Jamie Jackson (Photo: Russ Rowland) Murdoch: The Final Interview By Julia Polinsky on October 2, 2025 Whip-smart, demanding, as aggressive and changeable as Rupert Murdoch himself, this new play by An Unnamed Source hits the highlights (and lowlights) of billionaire media mogul Murdoch’s mind. Heaven knows that may not be a comfortable place to visit….
J. Harrison Ghee, Bryson Battle (Photo: Marc J. Franklin) Saturday Church By Julia Polinsky on September 30, 2025 Take me to church. Please. Saturday Church, now playing at New York Theatre Workshop, opens with the magnificent, ebullient, Tony-winning, can-do-no-wrong J. Harrison Ghee as Black Jesus, asking, “Can I show y’all what collective love looks like?…
J. Harrison Ghee, Bryson Battle (Photo: Marc J. Franklin) . Saturday Church . By Julia Polinsky . Take me to church. Please. . Saturday Church, now playing at New York Theatre Workshop, opens with the magnificent, ebullient, Tony-winning, can-do-no-wrong J. Harrison Ghee as Black Jesus, asking, “Can I show y’all…
The Ensemble (Photo: Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade) Rolling Thunder By Julia Polinsky on July 26, 2025 Rolling Thunder, a new show that originated in Australia, is about the Vietnam era, scored to the music of the times. It’s just opened at New World Stages, rolling out its considerable energy until September 7. Considering that this…
Dulé Hill (Photo: Marc J. Franklin) Lights Out By Julia Polinsky on June 1, 2025 Now at New York Theatre Workshop, Lights Out may seem on the surface to be just another bio-musical, this time about Nat “King Cole” (Dulé Hill in a superb performance) but it is much more than that. Go with an…
Florencia Cuenca and Company (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Real Women Have Curves By Julia Polinsky Charming, tuneful, heartwarming, eye-filling, and predictable (but it doesn’t matter), Real Women Have Curves proves that everything old can be new again. And that’s just fine, thank you! This musical version of Real Women Have Curves has had a couple of…
Maggie Kuntz, Morgan Scott, Fina Strazza, Amalia Yoo (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) John Proctor Is The Villain By Julia Polinsky Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor Is The Villain draws an exhilarating, troubling portrait of teenage girls as they once were, are now, and may forever be. Set in 2018, and dealing with the mass of new, increasing,…
Louis McCartney (Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) Stranger Things: The First Shadow By Julia Polinsky First things first: you do not need to be at all familiar with the Netflix series to enjoy Stranger Things: The First Shadow, now on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre. You know zip, zero, nothing? That’s fine, because the…
The Company (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Buena Vista Social Club By Julia Polinsky The best anti-depressant in the world is playing now at the Schoenfeld on 45th Street. Forget your Prozac, your Xanax, your anti-anxiety meds. Run, don’t walk, to see Buena Vista Social Club and let its magic blend of song, story, music, and dance…
The company of English. (Photo: Joan Marcus) English By Julia Polinsky What and how you speak: this is who you are. That is the idea behind Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, English, now at the Roundabout. A co-production with the Atlantic Theater Company, English is set a classroom in Iran, where students are preparing for…