Sunday, July 8, 2018
In the Berkshires, plays by Bekah Brunstetter and Douglas Carter Beane consider equality in the bakery and the rise of the “wonder homo.”
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A long aborning musical adaptation of the classic backstage comedy demotes a clan of highbrow actors to tacky vaudevillians.
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Adam Rapp’s new play, about a Yale professor and a freshman writing student, gets a stunning premiere at the Williamstown Theater Festival.
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The 1965 Lerner and Lane musical has been rewritten every which way to tell its tale of reincarnation. It never works, but oh, those songs!
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A quippy Jesse Tyler Ferguson stars in Jordan Harrison’s shapeless look at what happens when the L.G.B.T. alliance starts to turn on itself.
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Her father’s in love with a 20-year-old boy toy. Her son is a queer studies major. In Joshua Harmon’s new comedy, it’s the middle-aged woman who feels left behind.
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A new play transposes Shakespeare’s tragedy to a modern high school, where a student with cerebral palsy has his eye on the senior-class presidency.
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A new play by Antoinette Nwandu puts the epidemic of violence against young black men in a theatrical and historical context.
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Thursday, June 7, 2018
Delightfully comic juxtapositions (with a serious undertow) make a new play by Angela Hanks perfect for the warming season.
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A private-equity manager gives a local schoolteacher and her finances a yuppie makeover in Anthony Giardina’s new play.
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The great playwright’s treatment of his son Daniel, born with Down syndrome, is the subject of a new and troubling play.
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An intermittently thrilling new musical built around 22 Alanis Morissette songs seems to have 22 different themes, all worthy.
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An English professor may have chosen the wrong role model for his love life in “Faust.” Just ask his wife. And his mistress.
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Sunday, May 20, 2018
Twelve angry men and women await the return of a missing corpse in a revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s dark comedy.
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In Dominique Morisseau’s new play, Detroit’s mayor wants to clear “urban blight,” but some black jazzmen say, “We the blight he talkin’ about.”
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A 2018 look at the 1986 Broadway version of a 1937 musical leaves some things blurry and others all too clear.
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Disagreeing on classic musicals, agreeing on “The Band’s Visit,” and worried about a season when revivals outshone new plays.
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Caryl Churchill’s play about a moment of hope after the English Civil War gets a very dark revival at New York Theater Workshop.
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Ain Gordon’s new play tells a powerful story of gay life in America from the unusual point of view of a psychiatrist most famous for wearing a mask.
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Even a riveting central performance isn’t enough to release the potential of Tennessee Williams’s follow-up to “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
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Our chief critics offer reaction to the nominations, which were hard on jukebox musicals and “Frozen” but good to “My Fair Lady” and “Carousel.”
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Condola Rashad stars in a thoughtful if mostly becalmed Manhattan Theater Club revival of the 1923 play on Broadway.
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Sunday, April 22, 2018
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Lauren Ambrose stars as a newly empowered flower girl in a gorgeous revival that transforms the classic musical into an ur-text for our #MeToo moment.
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The first Broadway revival of Mark Medoff’s 1980 play shows that it was ahead of its time about deafness, but not about gender.
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