Sunday, October 7, 2018
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Bruce Norris's new play at the Steppenwolf Theater Company applies his usual cynicism to questions of justice and vengeance for sex offenders.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Janet McTeer plays Sarah Bernhardt as the Prince of Denmark in Theresa Rebeck's muscular new play about gender limitation and possibility.
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Thursday, September 20, 2018
Albany politics in 1977 may not seem very scintillating. But Ms. Falco brings out the buried drama of an ambitious woman in a man's political world.
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A woman hunts for her former foster brother. Was he, like so many young black men, a victim of drugs or police or violence? Or did he just disappear?
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The shape-shifting Kathryn Hunter plays 11 members of the court of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, witnessing and regretting the revolution.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Jen Silverman's play takes a spirited look at the emergence of women's solidarity with the help of Sephora, Shakespeare and a well-aimed hand mirror.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018
They are often Broadway sensations, but jukebox musicals rarely get good reviews. We invited our critics to stop snarking and tell us what they want.
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Though he remains the greatest American comic playwright, Mr. Simon was standing over a fault line in the culture that eventually pulled him down.
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Monday, August 13, 2018
A new "original" musical is usually something to welcome, but when it's a Frankenstein monster created from spare parts, maybe stay out of its way.
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With "The Tempest," "An Ideal Husband" and "To Kill a Mockingbird," the Stratford Festival carries on a conversation about purity and forgiveness.
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Thursday, July 26, 2018
The 1972 Broadway musical, closing the Encores! Off-Center season, sketches the history of the resilience of black Americans in song and dance.
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Monday, July 23, 2018
In Young Jean Lee's smart, thorny play, two brothers (Armie Hammer and Josh Charles) urge a third (Paul Schneider) to own his male prerogatives.
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An hour north of New York City, a new production of Shakespeare's impossible comedy finds a sensible way to respond to the #MeToo moment.
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The director Robert Lepage, recently criticized for cultural appropriation, finds in Shakespeare's tragedy a defense of Great Man prerogatives.
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Thursday, July 12, 2018
In Tracy Letts's gripping play, it takes six actors (and a doll) to embody one steely, difficult woman, from infancy to the age of 69.
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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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Tuesday, July 3, 2018
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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