Thursday, October 20, 2022
A latter-day Lincoln and Booth try to survive the American dream in a hilarious, harrowing and superbly acted Broadway revival of the Suzan-Lori Parks play.
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She performed without sentimentality or histrionics, embodying the full range of human joy and depravity while remaining professional and approachable.
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Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke star in a powerful revival of Arthur Miller’s drama, led by a Black cast.
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A revival of the musical about the Declaration of Independence underlines the gender imbalance among the Founding Fathers — and everything else.
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The Viennese Jewish family at the heart of this new Broadway production thinks it is too assimilated to be in danger when the Nazis arrive. They are wrong.
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Thursday, September 29, 2022
The “Glee” star is stupendous in the role Barbra Streisand made famous, turning the 1964 musical into something better than we know it to be.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2022
We can no longer ignore the theater’s systemic inequities. But leaving them behind may remake the industry in unexpected ways.
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Barrington Stage Company offers a take on the Sondheim-Wheeler classic highlighted by performances in shades of regret.
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At the Stratford and the Shaw theater festivals, four heated classics get cool new productions for summer.
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The requirements of the theater, and the constant physical and emotional risks facing performers, have many demanding their basic needs as humans.
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The Stratford Festival in Ontario opened a glamorous new theater last month that prioritizes the theater itself, not just what surrounds it.
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At Shakespeare in the Park, athletic stamina and action-hero charisma muddy the meaning of a play about disability.
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Frank talk about salaries and the end of unpaid internships are positive steps, but the cost may be fewer opportunities to learn the ropes.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Many of the “great men” who helped America create its classics, its institutions and its own acting style were tyrants. We need to cut them loose.
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The comedian’s memoir was funny. But when the new show based on it tries for something deeper, it sinks into bathos.
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Édouard Louis grew up scorned by his family for being gay. Now he sees homophobia as part of the portfolio of “humiliation by the ruling class.”
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Decoding the Tony nominations, our critics review a season of bold productions that met audiences often craving the familiar.
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The Tony nominations spread the wealth among many worthy (and a few unworthy) productions, as if to salute them for arriving at all.
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Alice Childress’s 1962 play about interracial love and hate gets its first major New York revival in 50 years.
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Friday, April 29, 2022
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Seven female farceurs bring Selina Fillinger’s new Broadway comedy about the president’s protectors to life.
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Thursday, April 21, 2022
Martin McDonagh’s rollicking comedy about capital punishment, now on Broadway, feels like a perfect fit for our unjust times.
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In Tracy Letts’s new play, a tedious City Council meeting cracks open to reveal the secret record of what happened in Big Cherry.
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