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Recent Examples of zombiesThere’s something reassuring, if also terrible, about the inexhaustibility of zombies, and of content, and of zombie content.—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
By the final showdown, the production has made use of every bit of stage space, with sensational flying sequences (choreographed by Lauren Yalango-Grant and Christopher Cree Grant) that allow the vampires to float, hover, and—in one especially intense moment—dive from that bridge.
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Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
30 Apr. 2026
Beyond that, non-phantom, non-Dracula vampires aren’t terribly over-exposed in the Broadway genre.
Created by a number of its stars, Ghosts originated on the BBC in 2019, following a group of ghouls from different historical periods haunting a country house while sharing the house with its new living occupants.
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Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
25 Mar. 2026
Now working as a stocker, Ash accidentally unleashes undead ghouls after reading from the Necronomicon, forcing him to take up his chainsaw yet again to save humanity from the Deadites.
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Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Feb. 2026