Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Amy Herzog’s heartbreaker arrives on Broadway with Rachel McAdams as the alarmingly upbeat mother of a fearfully sick child.
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Michael Stuhlbarg and Will Keen shine as a kingmaker and his creature. But in Peter Morgan’s cheesy-fun play, it’s not always clear which is which.
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Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin star in a buzzy Broadway revival that rips the skin off the 1966 musical.
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Shaina Taub’s new Broadway musical about Alice Paul and the fight for women’s suffrage is smart and noble and a bit like a rally.
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The 30-year relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson is the basis for Suzan-Lori Parks’s hilarious and harrowing nesting doll of a play.
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Thursday, April 11, 2024
The classic coming-of-age novel has become a compelling, if imperfect, musical about have-not teenagers in a have-it-all world.
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In works like “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” the playwright would force you to laugh, not to dull the pain but to hone it.
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Thursday, March 21, 2024
The circus-themed love story, already a novel and a movie, becomes a gorgeously imaginative Broadway musical.
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A cult horror film about a teenage girl with a surprise set of chompers gets another surprise: the song-and-dance treatment.
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The “Succession” star headlines a Broadway revival of Ibsen’s play about a lifesaving doctor and the town that hates him.
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Thursday, March 7, 2024
Liev Schreiber and Amy Ryan star in a revival of John Patrick Shanley’s moral head spinner about pride, the priesthood and presumptions of pedophilia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PMSufjan Stevens’s 2005 concept album has become an unlikely and unforgettable dance-musical hybrid, directed and choreographed by Justin Peck.
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Recordings of Broadway musicals are often better than the shows they preserve. Here’s a ranking of last year’s crop, with samples and bonus tracks.
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Itamar Moses’s play offers eloquent arguments on all sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it doesn’t offer much drama.
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Did Jelly Roll Morton “invent” jazz, as he claimed? A sensational Encores! revival offers a postmortem prosecution of one of the form’s founding fathers.
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Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Worldwide colony collapse is the subject of a bright, strange, upbeat thought experiment about insect hives, and our own.
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Friday, February 2, 2024
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
How watching gay coming-of-age stories has helped repair a heart still stuck in the past — and still scarred by a less welcoming world.
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Her dancing sometimes overshadowed her thrillingly dramatic way with a song: husky yet clarion, unaffected but full of comment and character.
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Less than 30 years after her death, fictional reincarnations of Diana are everywhere. But even icons deserve more time to rest in peace.
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Heather Christian’s latest exploration of the religious sublime is a musical spectacle about the often overlooked “caregivers and makers.”
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In Joshua Harmon’s play about the legacies of antisemitism, a Parisian family must decide when it’s time to get out.
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“Mad Max” gets a prequel, “The Wiz” returns to Broadway and Larry David gets another crack at a series finale.
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Monday, December 18, 2023
Making a blistering Broadway debut, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s 2014 play about the legacies of hatred feels like a new work entirely.
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A new Off Broadway musical adds the thrill of intimacy and the weight of history to the Cuban songs popularized on a 1997 album.
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A musical about seven autistic young adults, played by seven autistic young actors, breaks new ground on Broadway.
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Sunday, November 19, 2023
A promising Off Broadway jukebox musical features hits by the R&B star (including “Fallin’,” “If I Ain’t Got You” and “No One”) and a story much like her own.
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In the first Broadway revival of the Monty Python musical, the old bits are verbatim but the clowns are running the circus.
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The transcendent Dianne Wiest stars in an absurd yet poignant new play about a 75-year-old woman who sets out to be a star.
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The pop star of the 1970s and ’80s crosses over to musical theater with a dark story about pop stars of the 1920s and ’30s.
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