Thursday, April 21, 2022
Martin McDonagh’s rollicking comedy about capital punishment, now on Broadway, feels like a perfect fit for our unjust times.
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In Tracy Letts’s new play, a tedious City Council meeting cracks open to reveal the secret record of what happened in Big Cherry.
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Sam Rockwell, Laurence Fishburne and Darren Criss star in an electric revival of the David Mamet play about capitalism in a junk shop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMJames McAvoy gives a ravishing performance, without benefit of prosthetics or props, in a new adaptation alive with the love of language.
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Monday, April 4, 2022
Richard Greenberg’s 2002 play about baseball and homophobia gets a fine revival starring Jesse Williams and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
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In a new musical starring Joaquina Kalukango, the love between Black and Irish New Yorkers in a Manhattan bar is threatened by Civil War riots.
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The Builders Association explores the world of turkers, workers performing thousands of weird, low-paying tasks for an online giant.
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Heather Christian’s rapturous new music-theater work turns a tiny amphitheater into a vast cathedral of sound.
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Monday, March 21, 2022
A trenchant new comedy by Bryna Turner features Mary Wiseman in a comic tour-de-force as the guest most likely to make a scene.
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When their body parts start falling off, two women go on a spiritual journey with an Oprah-esque guru in Charly Evon Simpson’s new play.
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In a rich new play by Sanaz Toossi, four Iranians and their language teacher find second selves in a second tongue.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMNew productions of American plays that debuted between 1942 and 2002 offer glimpses into the world in which they first emerged — and into ours.
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A new musical imagines the invention of a decolorizing process. Will it save Black Americans from hatred or destroy them?
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Sutton Foster also stars in this neat, perky, overly cautious Broadway revival of a musical that needs to be more of a con.
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The Encores! series returns with a 1983 musical that, despite its pleasures, wasn’t quite right then and isn’t quite right now.
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Monday, January 31, 2022
Lynn Nottage’s play about a Black woman in 1905 becomes an opera, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon, that forefronts voices ignored by history.
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Dominique Morisseau’s 2016 play, now on Broadway, is a swift, well-crafted look at factory workers trapped in an economic “dumpster fire.”
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The Eugene O’Neill classic, set in 1912, is just as powerful in Robert O’Hara’s revival, set in our own age of disease and lockdown.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Taking Lily Tomlin’s roles in a revival of Jane Wagner’s metaphysical comedy, the “Saturday Night Live” star is put through her paces.
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Thursday, December 30, 2021
In recent musicals, hyperdesign is outstripping writing and direction for clarity, expressiveness and excitement.
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A new musical imagines the all-singing, all-dancing LSD trips of Aldous Huxley, Clare Boothe Luce and Cary Grant.
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Bobby is now Bobbie in this confusing, sour remake of the 1970 musical by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth.
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Victoria Clark stars in a playful yet powerful musical about a girl who is aging too fast among adults who behave like children.
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Digital innovation continued this year, but experiencing plays in isolation grew tiring. Then came an in-person season as exciting as a child’s first fireworks.
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With a childlike sense of discovery, Stephen Sondheim found the language to convey the beauty in harsh complexity.
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In Lynn Nottage’s bright new comedy, cooks at a greasy spoon dream of remaking the menu — and their lives.
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