Wednesday, January 18, 2023
The Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a second selection of the works on display.
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Friday, January 13, 2023
The Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a handful of the works on display.
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Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2014 play finally comes to Broadway, its hilarious, loving and unvarnished vision of the universal human hustle intact.
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Maria Friedman’s rethinking of the much-loved, much-monkeyed-with 1981 Sondheim-Furth flop gets very close to coherence, and all the way to enjoyable.
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A Broadway musical version of the Billy Wilder film finds exhilarating new ways to make the gender comedy sing.
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Audra McDonald stars in Adrienne Kennedy’s 1991 play about the worst imaginable crime and the world that made it inevitable.
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Thursday, November 17, 2022
Shakespeare’s tragedy becomes a girl-power romp in a cotton candy jukebox musical, featuring songs by the Swedish hitmaker Max Martin.
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Thursday, November 10, 2022
Monday, November 7, 2022
The new Kate Nash dance musical, choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler, is spectacular as long as you pay no attention to what it’s saying.
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
Cameron Crowe’s 2000 film, set in the world of bands and groupies, does not survive its Broadway musical transplant.
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In a revival of the 2002 musical “A Man of No Importance,” the star of “The Big Bang Theory” achieves something more delicate.
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Off Broadway at the Shed, Ralph Fiennes is glorious in David Hare’s sputtering portrait of the man who paved New York.
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Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 classic ends on a note of cautious optimism. Its latest incarnation, at the Public Theater, does not.
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A latter-day Lincoln and Booth try to survive the American dream in a hilarious, harrowing and superbly acted Broadway revival of the Suzan-Lori Parks play.
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She performed without sentimentality or histrionics, embodying the full range of human joy and depravity while remaining professional and approachable.
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Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke star in a powerful revival of Arthur Miller’s drama, led by a Black cast.
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A revival of the musical about the Declaration of Independence underlines the gender imbalance among the Founding Fathers — and everything else.
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The Viennese Jewish family at the heart of this new Broadway production thinks it is too assimilated to be in danger when the Nazis arrive. They are wrong.
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Thursday, September 29, 2022
The “Glee” star is stupendous in the role Barbra Streisand made famous, turning the 1964 musical into something better than we know it to be.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2022
We can no longer ignore the theater’s systemic inequities. But leaving them behind may remake the industry in unexpected ways.
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Barrington Stage Company offers a take on the Sondheim-Wheeler classic highlighted by performances in shades of regret.
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In this excerpt from “Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers,” a Broadway musical is born at a summer camp.
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At the Stratford and the Shaw theater festivals, four heated classics get cool new productions for summer.
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The requirements of the theater, and the constant physical and emotional risks facing performers, have many demanding their basic needs as humans.
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The Stratford Festival in Ontario opened a glamorous new theater last month that prioritizes the theater itself, not just what surrounds it.
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