Tuesday, February 22, 2022
New 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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Alice Childress’s 1955 play about power and race in the theater is a satire and a tragedy that deserves to be a classic.
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The tabloid press and the monarchy used the Princess of Wales for their own purposes, and now a new Broadway show does the same.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2021
In this bizarrely cheery adaptation of the Academy Award-winning film, suicide among young gay people proves difficult to sing about.
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Monday, November 1, 2021
Anna Deavere Smith’s one-woman play about the aftermath of the Rodney King case gets a cast of five in an updated Off Broadway revival.
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An electrifying revival of the 2003 musical, featuring a titanic performance by Sharon D Clarke, follows the money to the source of American inequality.
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Douglas Carter Beane’s winky fantasia finds Pinocchio, Puck and other unlikely characters meeting cute in a storybook setting.
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Deirdre O’Connell brilliantly lip-syncs the testimony of a woman abducted by a white supremacist in a play by Lucas Hnath.
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Sunday, October 10, 2021
Squabbling siblings, familiar stereotypes and a chorus of amens: A new play aims for the pleasures of Broadway’s traditional family sitcoms.
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The exuberant queenhood-is-powerful pageant about the wives of Henry VIII was shut down on opening night by the pandemic. Now it’s back, and it totally rules.
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It takes 15 minutes or less in each segment of “Three Short Plays by Tracy Letts” for the bard of male moral decrepitude to skewer his subjects.
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