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Indie-pop luminary Regina Spektor is preparing for her debut on the Great White Way.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30AMDespite the serious talent arrayed on both sides of the footlights, one longs for a taste of the mystical rapture the characters seem to be feeling on stage.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMAlthough it drags a bit, this piece about Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher boasts humor, excellent acting and staging, and some impressive wigs.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 12:36AMShakespeare in the Park delivers the freshest and funniest 'Much Ado About Nothing' you've seen yet.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMEvery American war gets the living-room tragedy it deserves.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:30AMHistorically, Tony voters reward stars, snobby hits and anything that opened in the spring. What will that mean for this year's unconventional contenders? Here are our predictions.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00AMMore than 30 years after its debut, a Broadway revival shows the sexual politics of Terrence McNally's Reagan-era romance to be just as relevant today.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMSeeing young women commandeer the weird energy of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' you realize: gee, these characters seem really insecure about their masculinity.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:52AMIn his new lyrical chorus, 'Octet,' Dave Malloy probes the inner lives of eight online addicts who meet in a church basement for a program where they find comfort in each other’s stories.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMJesse Eisenberg’s slow-boiling new work layers cringe comedy with moments of pathos.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:06PMA revival of 'Curse of the Starving Class' at the Signature Theatre highlights both the punk rock spirit and dated nature of Sam Shepard's work.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMAlthough the piece runs runs a bit long, talented actors and a savvy director get you to care about a clan of cold-blooded capitalists.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:48PMIt may not be Shakespeare, but this is a savvy and fiercely acted modern revival of John Webster s revenge tragedy.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:48PMBetween Sam Gold s staging and Glenda Jackson s performance, this production unfortunately falls flat.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:48PMLucas Hnath s fictionalized account of behind-the-scenes maneuvering during the 2008 presidential campaign is tightly written, but it pulls too many punches.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:48PMArthur Miller s play about risking lives in exchange for corporate profiteering has not lost its relevance.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:48PM'Ink' focuses on the early days of 'The Sun,' before Murdoch's global news empire profoundly shaped—and coarsened—the world we live in.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMIn Taylor Mac's new play, an updated take on 'Titus Andronicus,' Nathan Lane plays a street clown who survived the hangman and one day dreams of being called a fool.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:18AMThe road to 'Hadestown' was paved with good intentions, but the material that was a hit in Anaïs Mitchell’s 2010 concept album drags as a Broadway show.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMMichael James Scott has paid his dues for decades; now the super-trouper gets top Broadway billing in 'Aladdin.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:09AMThe newest from The Mad Ones, 'Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie' invites us to play sociologists behind the fourth wall, watching a group of parents reveal their biases while discussing children's …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMIt's witty, smart, handsomely shot and stuffed with juicy cameos.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00AMIn 'What the Constitution Means to Me' Heidi Schreck shows how the memoir-monologue can be electrified it within a harrowing historical context.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMFrom 'Hillary and Clinton' to an opera at the Met Museum, here are the must-see dance, opera and theater performances of the spring.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:00PMDirector Scott Ellis navigates the antique attitudes of the original 'Kiss Me, Kate' material deftly, giving this classic musical an update that meshes with our age.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMTheater is Kryptonite for superheroes. 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' proved it, yet Second Stage's new musical from John Logan and Tom Kitt tackles the theme anyway.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:23PMIts audience might be pretty niche.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMIn 'Sea Wall/A Life,' Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge deliver quietly shattering monologues about what we make of grief, and what grief makes of us.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMSeeing Freestyle Love Supreme, the rap-improv troupe that Miranda founded in college, will give you a new understanding of the phenomenon known as 'Hamilton.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMCasting is key when it comes to the warring brothers of Sam Shepard's 'True West.' Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano face off in Roundabout's new production.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMMany of the productions of the past year were tinged with a political aura.
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