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Thursday, November 6, 2025

‘Queens’ Review: The Heavy Burden of Past Lives and Uncertain Futures by Tim Teeman

Martyna Majok reimagines her 2018 play about the immigrant women who at various points live in a basement apartment in the New York City borough.

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John Russell Taylor, 90, Dies; Cultural Critic and Hitchcock Biographer by Sam Roberts

A prolific journalist and author, he wrote the only authorized biography of Alfred Hitchcock and heaped early praise on the future Nobel laureate Harold Pinter.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

‘Girl, Interrupted,’ With Aimee Mann Songs, to Be Staged in New York by Michael Paulson

The Public Theater will present the play, which Martyna Majok adapted from the best-selling memoir.

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Juliana May Brings the Audacity of Optimism to BAM Fisher by Gia Kourlas and Elias Williams

For her new work, opening at BAM Fisher, Juliana F. May looks to early influences to create her version of a postmodern musical.

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3 Plays About Jewish Identity That Resist Easy Answers by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The Off Broadway shows “Hannah Senesh,” “Jewish Plot” and “Playing Shylock” take stock of discussions around casting and storytelling.

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In ‘Wicked: For Good,’ Ariana Grande Solidifies Herself as a Dramatic Actress by Kyle Buchanan and Geordie Wood

The pop superstar reinvented herself in the first “Wicked,” but the sequel shows just how much further she can go as an actress.

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In ‘Figure,’ Dancing in Costumes that Don’t Want to Dance by Nina Siegal

A fashion designer and a choreographer created a work in which intentionally cumbersome garments lead and the dancers’ movements follow.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2025

The Joyce Theater to Receive $15 Million Gift by Adam Nagourney

The money, from the late Anupam Puri and Rajika Puri, will help the dance-dedicated theater in a time of uncertainty for organizations in the field.

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‘Messy White Gays’ Review: A Satire We’ve Seen Before by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Drew Droege’s newest play Off Broadway is a lot like his others, skewering the entitlement of wealthy, oblivious gay men in Manhattan.

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What Is the Right Way to Say Godot? by Alexis Soloski

The latest starry revival of Samuel Beckett’s play is on Broadway, and one thing is certain: Whatever you call its elusive character, he doesn’t come.

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American Ballet Theater Tries to Make the Past Feel Fresh by Gia Kourlas

This fall the offerings at American Ballet Theater, now in its 85th year, included a tepid premiere and touching debuts in Agnes de Mille’s “Rodeo.”

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Monday, November 3, 2025

In ‘Kyoto,’ Seeking Consensus to Save the Earth but Veering Off Course by Laura Collins-Hughes

At Lincoln Center Theater, a new play from the makers of “The Jungle” tries to dramatize the negotiations that led to the Kyoto Protocol.

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Diane Ladd, Oscar-Nominated Actress and Mother of Laura Dern, Dies at 89 by Anita Gates

She was a three-time Oscar contender playing strikingly different characters, in once case starring alongside her daughter and fellow nominee, Laura Dern.

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Review: Ratmansky’s Astonishing ‘Fugue’ Finds a Home in Denmark by Roslyn Sulcas

Dedicated to Ukraine, Alexei Ratmansky’s evening-length ballet “The Art of the Fugue” is both dispassionately unsentimental and profoundly moving.

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‘Romy & Michele: The Musical’ Review: Just Following the Script by Elisabeth Vincentelli

This movie adaptation has a couple of laughs, but could have been better served by expanding its reach.

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Has Theater Become Everybody’s Church? by Alissa Wilkinson

New shows by Jen Tullock, Jordan E. Cooper and others have a common theme: You can walk away from the church, but the songs stay with you.

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Mthuthuzeli November’s ‘Pinch Me’ Moment at the Paris Opera Ballet by Roslyn Sulcas

Mthuthuzeli November was determined to get out of his impoverished home town. Now has his work alongside George Balanchine at the Paris Opera Ballet.

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Saturday, November 1, 2025

15 Off Broadway Shows to Catch in November by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Tom Hanks returns to New York theater alongside Kelli O’Hara, and Ariana DeBose leads “The Baker’s Wife,” a cult musical.

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‘Hedda’ Director Nia DaCosta on Her Sumptuous Adaptation of Ibsen by Roslyn Sulcas

The director’s sumptuous rethinking of “Hedda Gabler” raises questions about women, freedom and the choices we make about our lives.

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Friday, October 31, 2025

Stephen Prina Taught a Class on Keanu Reeves in 1994. What Does He Think of ‘Godot’? by Jesse McKinley

Stephen Prina may have been one of the first to see a deeper pattern in Mr. Reeves’s work.

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Thursday, October 30, 2025

Laurie Metcalf Is Riveting in ‘Little Bear Ridge Road’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

The playwright Samuel D. Hunter makes his Broadway debut with an addition to his Idaho oeuvre, set during the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath.

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‘Bat Boy: The Musical’ Review: He’s Just Trying to Fit In by Elisabeth Vincentelli

For its gala, New York City Center revives an antic show about a half-man tabloid sensation, with catchy music and lyrics by the versatile Laurence O’Keefe.

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Ted Huffman to Lead Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival by Adam Nagourney

The Aix-en-Provence Festival in France has named Huffman to succeed the visionary Pierre Audi, who died earlier this year.

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Review: To Cure the Sick, ‘Le Grand Bal’ Prescribes a Rave by Brian Seibert

The French troupe Compagnie Dyptik is making its United States debut with a show seemingly inspired by pandemic isolation and its aftermath.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

A Spooky Season of Phantoms, a Bat Boy and More by Juan A. Ramírez

From Broadway to the small screen, these unnerving theater productions are not just about horror and frights.

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Daniel Radcliffe Will Return to Broadway in ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ by Michael Paulson

The “Harry Potter” alumnus, who won a Tony Award last year, will star in a solo play that involves something unexpected: audience participation.

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Review: In Samuel Beckett’s ‘Endgame,’ Repetition Is the Thing by Laura Collins-Hughes

All four characters in this bleak tragicomedy, staged by the Druid theater company, share the human desire to hear the same tales again and again.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

‘Liberation’ Review: A Tony-Worthy Ensemble Plotting Revolution by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Bess Wohl’s play, about a consciousness-raising group in 1970s Ohio, transfers to Broadway where it remains powerfully moving — and funny.

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Anyone Who’s Anyone Got Their Start at Joe’s Pub by Reggie Nadelson

Despite its small stage, the cabaret space inside New York’s Public Theater building has made an outsize imprint on the city’s art scene.

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In Two Solo Plays, a Search for Belonging and Parental Love by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ari’el Stachel’s “Other” and Zoë Kim’s “Did You Eat?” are self-interrogations that deal with family, race and identity.

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A Broadway Tradition Is Fluttering Into History by Michael Paulson and Sara Krulwich

Broadway plans to replace the cast-change slips that are stuffed into Playbills with QR codes. Some understudies and theater buffs will mourn their loss.

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