Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Monday, February 24, 2020
With this season promising so many revivals and touring productions, our critic wonders whether it’s possible for audiences to treat them as exciting arrivals.
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Charles Busch’s mash-up of mother-love weepies finds both pathos and hilarity in the tough talk of Hollywood divas.
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Bess Wohl’s new play puts a Neil Simonesque spin on the story of a couple considering divorce after 50 years.
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The Broadway premiere of Charles Fuller’s 1981 drama finds premonitions of today in the story of a 1944 murder.
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Kathryn Hunter stars as the fabulously rich Greek who understands the corrupting value of money only after she loses it.
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The Public Theater’s festival has included 12 featured offerings, four cabaret acts and six pieces of developmental work. Here’s what our critics saw.
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Music (and eventually emotion) cuts through the alienating layers of abstraction in this new work by the musician-storytellers James & Jerome.
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Two productions at the Under the Radar Festival ask if the theater is ready to embrace the artistry of autism and other once disqualifying conditions.
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A jazz memoirist, a Palestinian rocketeer and Mexican myths set to music kick off the Public Theater’s annual festival of adventurous work from across the globe.
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Friday, December 27, 2019
A comedy number from the flop “Mack & Mabel” found the unexpected sweet spot between Irving Berlin and Stephen Sondheim.
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Lucas Hnath’s cunning new ghost story, about a psychic and her client, is a twisty yarn that won’t unravel.
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At the Park Avenue Armory, Odon von Horvath’s 1937 drama gets a rare and physically overwhelming staging.
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Samuel D. Hunter’s creaky play about the downsizing of the American West features terrific performances by Judith Ivey and Edmund Donovan.
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Alanis Morissette’s “ironic” fury finds a perfect Broadway musical setting in Diablo Cody’s fiery indictment of, well, everything.
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Shows that defied categorization offered a stark choice: Escape an angry world, or face up to its travails. Beyond Broadway, writers explored race, inequality and addiction.
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Read and studied for decades, a key work of the American avant-garde finally returns in a major New York revival.
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Will Eno’s new play about the many people each person contains is glib at first, but grows, like life, from trick to tragicomedy.
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Two plays based on the autobiographical novels of Édouard Louis put the problem of violence against gay men in a larger social context.
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City Center’s gala production of the 1979 Broadway musical gives our favorite fascist enabler a feminist makeover.
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In a new work far from Broadway, Jeremy O. Harris, the author of “Slave Play,” puts his body and soul on the line.
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Tina Turner gets the bio-jukebox treatment, with all its lows (emaciated storytelling) and one of its peaks (a star-making performance from Adrienne Warren).
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In a witty new play by Liza Birkenmeier, restless friends find themselves challenged by the first American woman in space.
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019
When the former Edna Turnblad plays the feminist firebrand of the 1970s, there’s no dress but it’s still a drag.
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Gerard Alessandrini’s franchise was looking as long in the tooth as the shows it aimed to skewer. A new edition brings it back to hilarious life.
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