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Sunday, November 23, 2025

‘Gruesome Playground Injuries’ Review: Does It Hurt? by Laura Collins-Hughes

Kara Young and Nicholas Braun star in the Off Broadway revival of Rajiv Joseph’s two-hander about best friends on parallel paths to self-destruction.

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Saturday, November 22, 2025

How Gaten Matarazzo, the ‘Stranger Things’ Star, Spends His Day Off by Sarah Bahr and Christian Rodriguez

Gaten Matarazzo, a breakout star of Netflix’s megahit horror series, attends Rangers hockey games with his dad and walks the Hudson River with his girlfriend.

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Friday, November 21, 2025

‘Wicked: For Good’ Review: Two Besties Till the End by Manohla Dargis

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande return to Oz for the second part of Jon M. Chu’s maximalist adaptation of the Broadway musical.

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‘Initiative’ Review: High School as an Epic Struggle by Elisabeth Vincentelli

A new production at the Public Theater takes up five hours of stage time to tell the story of a group of friends from their first day to graduation.

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Review: Even With Olga Smirnova, Dutch National Ballet Falters by Gia Kourlas

For its season at New York City Center, its first major engagement here in years, the company disappoints with mediocre repertory.

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How 2 New Songs Made Their Way Into ‘Wicked: For Good’ by Esther Zuckerman

Each witch gets a new number as part of an effort to flesh out the arc of the stage show’s second act.

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‘Wicked: For Good’ — Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s Never-Ending Press Tour by Esther Zuckerman

The pink-and-green-themed promotions were everywhere, with all the advantages and limitations that kind of marketing push entails.

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Thursday, November 20, 2025

‘Two Strangers’ Review: Meeting Cute, Toting Baggage by Laura Collins-Hughes and Sara Krulwich

The effervescent musical, a new London import, delivers lavishly on the promise of a rom-com: laughter, escape and fantasy.

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Theater as a Safe Space? ‘Practice’ Demolishes That Idea. by Tim Teeman

Nazareth Hassan’s darkly witty satire follows an imperious director who pushes his eager actors to extremes.

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In a Reimagined ‘Our Town,’ Dance and Poetry Run for the Woods by Gia Kourlas

In “My Town,” Jack Ferver’s one-person take on the Wilder classic with hints of “Wisconsin Death Trip,” movement and storytelling are deftly intertwined.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Meryl Streep and More Stars Toast Tom Hanks in ‘This World of Tomorrow’ by Sarah Bahr and Ye Fan

A crowd that included Meryl Streep, Martin Short and Steve Martin packed the Shed for the actor’s new show, “This World of Tomorrow.”

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The Debate Over Colorblind Casting Isn’t Settled After All by Jesse Green

A Black Hedda Gabler on film and a white Korean robot onstage are sending mixed signals about the status of cultural diversity and representation.

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This Play Recruited Actors With Anorexia. Was That Ethical? by Alex Marshall

Some psychologists and parents argued that it risked glamorizing the condition, but one performer described the experience as empowering: “Onstage, I can be who I really am.”

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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

‘This World of Tomorrow’ Review: Tom Hanks Is Back in Town by Laura Collins-Hughes

The movie star plays a man from the future at the 1939 New York World’s Fair in an adaptation of some of his stories. Kelli O’Hara shines as his love interest.

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Those Little Chimes That Say ‘Please Take Your Seat’ by Michaela Towfighi and Vincent Alban

At New York’s performing arts venues, herding audiences is a melodic mission.

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‘Meet the Cartozians’ Review: Who Gets to Be White in America? by Juan A. Ramírez

Talene Monahon’s captivating play uses a 1925 court decision to explore what identity means to Armenians here (a certain reality TV star included).

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‘Lahpphon/Lost’ Was a Hit in Oslo. But in the Sami Heartland? by Lisa Abend and David B. Torch

The Norwegian National Ballet was nervous about taking a new work about a Sami uprising to the area where the historical event took place.

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In This Show, Four Years of High School Unfold Over Five Hours by Douglas Corzine

The characters in Else Went’s quiet Off Broadway debut at the Public Theater try to make sense of the world while coming-of-age in the early aughts.

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‘25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ Review: A Delightful Competition by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Adult actors play fierce middle-school spellers in a wonderful revival of William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s musical.

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Monday, November 17, 2025

What Should I Do With My Playbill? by Michael Paulson

Readers ask about the most environmentally friendly thing to do with an unwanted program. And by the way, why is it always yellow?

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Broadway’s Radical ‘Oedipus,’ With Mark Strong and Lesley Manville by Joshua Barone

Icke dusts off the classics the way a restorer brightens an old master painting. His latest project stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville.

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A Fats Waller Musical All But Disappeared (Until Now) by Will Friedwald

The jazz pianist and composer wrote music for the World War II hit “Early to Bed,” which was running when he died at 39. Two concerts will bring its songs back to life.

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Ballet Dancers Are Starting to Prioritize Their Mental Health by Gia Kourlas and Thea Traff

Dancers are famous for buckling down and getting through it. But a new openness about mental health has companies and schools focusing on their well-being, both physical and emotional.

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Sunday, November 16, 2025

‘Chess,’ With Lea Michele: At Least They Have the Abba Songs by Elisabeth Vincentelli and Sara Krulwich

This new revival, starring Lea Michele, Nicholas Christopher and Aaron Tveit, is a reminder why the erratic yet rewarding show has endured all these years.

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Leslie Odom Jr., Back in the Room Where It Happens by Salamishah Tillet

In “Hamilton,” no moment captures the actor’s emotional expansiveness, artistic breadth and vocal depth better than this number.

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Saturday, November 15, 2025

At the Broadway Flea, a Market for Props, Playbills and a Good Cause by Vidhya Nagarajan and Sarah Bahr

Theaters lovers came in search of souvenirs at the Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction this fall, all for a good cause.

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Lupita Nyong’o in ‘Twelfth Night,’ and More Theater to Stream by Elisabeth Vincentelli

This month’s picks include a ravishing Nyong’o in the return of Shakespeare in the Park, and an audio play starring Liev Schreiber and Maggie Siff.

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Friday, November 14, 2025

Yvonne Brewster, Godmother of Black British Theater, Dies at 87 by Stella Raine Chu

When she studied acting in London in the 1950s, she was told she was unlikely to find work. She ended up starting one of the country’s foremost Black theaters.

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Elizabeth Franz, Versatile Tony-Winning Actress, Dies at 84 by Richard Sandomir

She won the award for her performance as Linda Loman in a 1999 Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman” and played the matriarch Kate Jerome in two Neil Simon comedies.

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‘The Seat of Our Pants’ Review: Songs for the World’s End by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ruthie Ann Miles, Shuler Hensley and Micaela Diamond lead a dream-team cast in Ethan Lipton’s musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth.”

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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Lesley Manville and Mark Strong Are Superb in ‘Oedipus’ on Broadway by Alexis Soloski

Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are superb as a doomed political power couple in Robert Icke’s adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy.

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