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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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‘Archduke’ Review: Impressionable Young Men by Juan A. Ramírez

Rajiv Joseph’s farcical play follows the nationalists who carried out the assassination that ignited World War I.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Watch Lesley Manville and Mark Strong of Broadway’s ‘Oedipus’ Go Head-to-Head by Jameson Montgomery

As the show opens in New York, its stars took their places amid the desks of T Magazine to deliver a pivotal scene.

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Sting to Bring ‘The Last Ship’ to the Met Opera by Adam Nagourney

After his musical “The Last Ship” failed on Broadway, Sting is bringing a revised version to the Met as the house looks for new sources of revenue.

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Premieres at the Paul Taylor Dance Company Lose the Taylor Thread by Gia Kourlas

As part of its Lincoln Center season, the company presented works by Lauren Lovette, Robert Battle and Hope Boykin.

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Review: Rennie Harris’s Jam Session of American Street Dance by Brian Seibert

At the Joyce Theater, “American Street Dancer” offers a history lesson in the form of a family’s house party.

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Getting Into the Arena as ‘The Hunger Games’ Goes Live by Alexis Soloski

At a specially built theater, the hit book and movie franchise has been transformed into a theatrical experience, with real fire and flying arrows.

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Lea Michelle and Her ‘Chess’ Co-Stars Know the Score by Alexis Soloski and Lanna Apisukh

Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher took a break from navigating their onstage rivalries to engage in some (mostly) friendly competition.

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‘The Baker’s Wife’ Review: Ariana DeBose Returns to New York Stage by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The Oscar winner takes on a lovely yet tricky role in a Stephen Schwartz musical that never made it to Broadway back in 1976.

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Ruth Childs Steps Out of a Giant Shadow (Her Aunt, Lucinda Childs’s) by Brian Seibert and George Etheredge

Ruth Childs, the niece of the renowned choreographer Lucinda Childs, got over being intimidated by her aunt’s achievements. Now, she debuts her own work in New York.

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Monday, November 10, 2025

‘Richard II’ Review: Michael Urie Is a Cynical, Comic Monarch by Jason Zinoman

The inventive comic actor delivers a commanding performance in Shakespeare’s portrait of feckless leadership in a sleek Off Broadway adaptation.

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In ‘Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire,’ Anne Washburn Basks in the Afterglow by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Anne Washburn’s darkly enigmatic play, a countercultural community hides the death of one of its own. But why?

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Movement Directors Are the Secret Ingredient to Movies and Runway Shows by Margaret Fuhrer

The way an actor physically inhabits a character? A model’s distinctive runway walk? Credit a movement director, who can make an ad, movie scene or fashion show feel intensely alive.

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In ‘The Queen of Versailles,’ Kristin Chenoweth Can’t Get Enough by Laura Collins-Hughes

Material excess can never be too excessive for the central character of this gilded Broadway musical, based on the 2012 film.

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Saturday, November 8, 2025

Nabil Shaban, Acclaimed Actor and Advocate for the Disabled, Dies at 72 by Clay Risen

Born without the use of his legs, he appeared memorably on television on “Doctor Who” and onstage as, among many other roles, Hamlet.

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‘Purple Rain’ Review: A Stage Musical That Misses Prince’s Charisma by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Prince was mysterious, sexy. This adaptation of his 1984 film, onstage in Minneapolis, explains too much and comes off as disorienting.

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Friday, November 7, 2025

Sex With a Stranger: How Actors Do It Onstage by Julia Jacobs

The experimental play “Good Sex” lets audiences in on the process, while giving its performers an unusual acting challenge.

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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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Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Sep 28, 2025: Waiting For Godot - Hudson Theatre
Sep 29, 2025: Punch - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
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Oct 30, 2025: Little Bear Ridge Road - Booth Theatre
Nov 09, 2025: The Queen of Versailles - St. James Theatre
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Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
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