Tuesday, August 29, 2023
A smash, a romp, a mess and a mystery are part of this Ontario festival’s 12-play repertoire after two seasons of retrenchment.
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Barrington Stage Company’s revival of the 1998 musical brings vocal luster and newfound relevance to the story of a songwriter’s near-death experience.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater, a play about the making of Hollywood’s first summer blockbuster bobs up on Broadway.
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“Candide” in an opera house. “Spamalot” and “Rent” cheek by jowl with Shakespeare. But treating them as classics may not be doing them justice.
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Thursday, July 27, 2023
Monday, July 24, 2023
Jason Alexander directs a Broadway farce that aims for the high style of Noël Coward but falls on its face instead.
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A new Broadway musical tells the disturbing story of Imelda Marcos by putting her, and the audience, in a disco.
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The Public Theater’s alfresco production has plenty to offer audiences who know the play already. But it may not be so easy for newcomers.
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Is it a stand-up act or a morality play? Either way, Alex Edelman’s look at race, religion and the limits of empathy is at home on Broadway.
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In lyrics of rare humor, elegance and compassion, the man who put words to “Fiddler on the Roof” and “She Loves Me” explored the complex emotional architecture of love.
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A revival of the 1998 revisal of the 1966 musical highlights the stories of trans and nonbinary performers.
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Robert Icke’s surgery on a 1922 play about the disease of antisemitism turns it into a riveting debate about identity. But at what cost to the patient?
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The writing is on the wall: With or without writers, the Broadway awards are a strangely bland and canned way to celebrate a thrillingly live medium.
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Tori Sampson’s look at the Black Panther movement is a warm sitcom that becomes a jarring inquest into a real murder.
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In his haunting new play, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins updates the reunion genre with too much jungle juice and an otherworldly visitor.
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A new play about a sisterhood of sorrows brings something scary to the stage, but is delivering shocks and icks enough?
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Mira Nair’s 2001 movie about a couple brought together by their families becomes a song-filled pageant, with mixed results.
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Jesse Green, the chief theater critic, and Maya Phillips, a critic-at-large, name the shows and artists who they think will win, should win and should have been nominated for this year’s T…
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The Encores! production, directed by Lear deBessonet, looks to deepen and darken a musical that resists the change. But it’s still delightful.
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The “Will & Grace” star is unrecognizable in a Broadway biography of Oscar Levant: wit, pianist and “Eeyore in a cheap suit.”
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The “Killing Eve” star has a spectacular Broadway debut in a play that puts sexual assault jurisprudence on trial.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Aerial mishaps and half-wit actors turn a fantasy classic into a farce. But, like Peter, not all of the jokes land.
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A revival of the 1960 musical with the famously great score and infamously bad book gets a gorgeous makeover that makes no difference.
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A modern gloss on “Hamlet” set at a backyard barbecue remakes the tragedy as a comedy, and as a challenge for today.
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Michael R. Jackson’s wild new musical satire is packed with a thesis’ worth of insight about fate and representation.
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A countrified musical about corn, and filled with it, too, transplants itself to Broadway, with songs by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32PMThe 96-year-old composer of “Chicago” and “Cabaret” is making a brand-new start of it with “New York, New York,” his 16th Broadway musical.
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Sondheim’s masterpiece, restored to its proper size and sung to the hilt by Josh Groban, makes a welcome Broadway return.
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