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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Puppetry So Lifelike, Even Their Deaths Look Real by Laura Collins-Hughes

Members of the puppetry team for “Life of Pi” discuss making the show’s animals seem all-too-real on a very crowded lifeboat.

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Monday, March 20, 2023

‘Drinking in America’ Review: Men in a Cracked Mirror by Laura Collins-Hughes

After 15 years away from the stage, Andre Royo of ‘The Wire’ goes all in with an evening of Eric Bogosian monologues at the Minetta Lane Theater.

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Friday, March 10, 2023

‘Pericles’ Review: Shakespeare in the Blender by Laura Collins-Hughes

Target Margin Theater remixes one of the Bard’s lesser works, with uninspired results.

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Thursday, March 9, 2023

‘Dark Disabled Stories’ Review: When the World Isn’t Built for You by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ryan J. Haddad’s gracefully layered play about the lives of disabled people blasts away condescension and replaces it with comprehension.

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

‘Crumbs From the Table of Joy’ Review: Dreams on the Cusp of Womanhood by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Keen Company’s revival of Lynn Nottage’s 1995 play, a Black girl comes of age amid the churn of social change in midcentury Brooklyn.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Review: ‘Letters From Max’ Is a Sacrament of Grief, and a Comedy by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Signature Theater production is based on correspondence between the playwright Sarah Ruhl and a student of hers, who died of cancer at 25.

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Monday, February 27, 2023

‘Elyria’ Review: The Past Catches Up to Them, Outside Cleveland by Laura Collins-Hughes

A microcosmic tale of the Indian diaspora, Deepa Purohit’s new play centers on the tangled history of two women and the man in between them.

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Sunday, February 5, 2023

Screen Time: A Film Star Captivates, and a Writer Is Surveilled by Laura Collins-Hughes

David Greenspan gives a wild ride of a performance in “On Set With Theda Bara,” and marionettes star in Vaclav Havel’s play “Audience.”

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Thursday, February 2, 2023

‘Endgame’ Review: A Laugh at the Apocalypse? by Laura Collins-Hughes

There’s plenty of pleasure to be found at the end of the world in the Irish Repertory Theater production of Samuel Beckett’s play.

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Thursday, January 26, 2023

For a Pioneering Artist, the Joy of Having Done the Work His Way by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ping Chong discussed his more than 50-year career as a multidisciplinary artist who has found inspiration in the surreal.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

‘The Appointment’ Review: A Chorus Line at the Abortion Clinic by Laura Collins-Hughes

After its original New York outing in 2019, the trippy musical returns in the post-Roe era with an updated script and sharpened fangs.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

At Under the Radar, Family Histories Bubble Up With No Easy Answers by Jesse Green, Laura Collins-Hughes and Elisabeth Vincentelli

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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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

When Monsters Make the Best Husbands by Laura Collins-Hughes

“Frankenstein’s Monster Is Drunk and the Sheep Have All Jumped the Fences” and “Heaven,” two plays in Origin’s 1st Irish Festival, offer two very different views of marriage.

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Friday, January 13, 2023

At Under the Radar, Stories Unfold via Sexts, Tweets and Puppeteers by Jesse Green, Laura Collins-Hughes and Alexis Soloski

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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Thursday, January 12, 2023

5 Broadway Veterans on Race and Representation in Theater Design by Laura Collins-Hughes

“Theater traffics in unconscious symbolism.” Set designers, lighting designers and a sound designer talk about skin tones, aesthetics and more.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2022

‘The Collaboration’ Review: A Basquiat-Warhol Bromance in Bloom by Laura Collins-Hughes

Anthony McCarten’s biodrama about the artists’ work together lifts the curtain on their friendship, or at least it thinks it does.

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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Eddie Izzard Plays Which Part in ‘Great Expectations’? All of Them by Laura Collins-Hughes

The British comedian and actor is now performing her solo take on Dickens’s coming-of-age drama Off Broadway. It’s “pure storytelling,” she said.

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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

‘Events’ Review: There’s Kool-Aid in the Water Cooler by Laura Collins-Hughes

Bailey Williams’s comedy is a sharp-toothed, sometimes bewildering satire of all-consuming workplace culture.

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Tuesday, December 6, 2022

‘The Brightest Thing in the World’ Review: Falling in Love, While Loving Heroin by Laura Collins-Hughes

An addiction and recovery tale wrapped in a romantic comedy, Leah Nanako Winkler’s play insists on acknowledging the messy coexistence of joy and pain.

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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Playing Neil Diamond: A Dream Role, and a ‘Crazy Privilege’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

Will Swenson, the star of “A Beautiful Noise,” has come a long way from his days as an eighth grader wooing girls with his Diamond repertoire.

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Monday, November 28, 2022

‘The Gett’ Review: Jewish History and a Woman’s Future by Laura Collins-Hughes

The ancient and contemporary swirl together in Liba Vaynberg’s ambitious, off-kilter play about life after a divorce.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

‘Downstate’ Review: A Foulness in the Very Air They Breathe by Laura Collins-Hughes

The deep, dark tragicomedy by Bruce Norris is set in a group home for sex offenders.

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

‘Good Enemy’ Review: Finding Second Chances by Laura Collins-Hughes

Yilong Liu’s new play toggles between China in 1984 and the United States in 2021.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ Gets Joan Didion’s Intention Just Right by Laura Collins-Hughes

A play based on the writer’s memoir about the death of her husband, in its first New York revival, goes small to powerful effect.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

‘The Unbelieving’ Review: Life After Faith by Laura Collins-Hughes

In a probing new play from the Civilians, based on the book “Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind,” current and former members of the clergy grapple with the reality of losing the…

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Thursday, October 27, 2022

‘Chekhov’s First Play’ Review: A Play-by-Play of the Play Within the Play by Laura Collins-Hughes

At Irish Arts Center, a wry, experimental iteration doesn’t do much to untangle the playwright’s unwieldy early work.

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Sunday, October 23, 2022

Review: Retracing the Path From Middle School Nerd to Rock Goddess by Laura Collins-Hughes

Best known for her 1995 hit song “I Kissed a Girl,” the enchanting singer-songwriter Jill Sobule is the star of a winsome and defiant autobiographical musical.

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Martyna Majok on Hoping for Magic, and Wishing for Ghosts by Laura Collins-Hughes

The playwright, whose Pulitzer-winning “Cost of Living” is now on Broadway, talks about “the precarity of life” and our inherent need to be taken care of.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Review: In This ‘Wuthering Heights,’ Music, Moors and Untamed Spirits by Laura Collins-Hughes

Emma Rice’s glorious stage adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel is a feat of storytelling, with a singing and dancing chorus embodying the moors.

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Sunday, October 16, 2022

‘My Window’ Review: An Out-and-Proud Trailblazer Finds Her Way by Laura Collins-Hughes

Melissa Etheridge’s limited run at New World Stages is a celebration of its smoky-voiced 61-year-old star, and contains some confessions, along with her hits.

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Wednesday, October 12, 2022

‘Dodi & Diana’ Review: Two Relationships, Linked in the Stars by Laura Collins-Hughes

A husband and wife who may be the “astrological doubles” of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed head toward a crisis in this new play by Kareem Fahmy.

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards