479 stories by "MICHAEL SOMMERS"
★★★★☆ Lupita Nyong’o leads off a series of artists as the protagonist of Marin Ireland’s drama on emotional trauma
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★★★☆☆ Aussie clown with antic alter ego spontaneously moons over great literature
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★★★☆☆ A supernatural story of possession packs a suspenseful two hours
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★★☆☆☆ Sam Underwood plays a woeful hero in a new version of Chekhov’s first drama
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★★★★★ A Broadway award-winner looks and sounds as winning as ever with fresh leading players
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★★★★☆ Writer Bubba Weiler and director Jack Serio offer a tender drama of faith and friendship
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★★★☆☆ Comedian Cat Cohen finds fun in a story about the hole they found in her heart
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★★★★☆ Director Mary Zimmerman stages a ravishing visual production of an historic story told from a working woman’s perspective
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★★★☆☆ Nick Westrate and James Udom play alpha and beta dogs in Classical Theatre of Harlem’s outdoor staging of Shakespeare’s drama
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★★★☆☆ Excellent performances and design enliven a docudrama of the HUAC’s hunt for Commies in Hollywood
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★★☆☆☆ LCT3 hosts a community riff on classical themes by Julia May Jonas
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★★★★☆ Martyna Majok and Aimee Mann craft an intimate drama with songs about women existing in a 1960s psychiatric facility
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★★☆☆☆ Stephen Spinella sparks a triangular romantic drama set in a ghost town
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★★★☆☆ Candy Buckley and a bright ensemble illuminate an incomplete dark comedy by an American master
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★★★☆☆ En Garde Arts stages a new solo show inside a planetarium
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★★★☆☆ Hiran Abeysekera heads a multicultural ensemble in the National Theatre’s visiting production
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★★★☆☆ An English import showcases Jack Holden’s Olivier Award-winning performance as an ugly American
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★★☆☆☆ Luke Evans, Juliette Lewis and Rachel Dratch appear amid a conventional revival of an unconventional musical
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★★★★☆ Alex Brightman leads a dandy company through a salute to musicals like they don’t make them anymore
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★★★☆☆ Rose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara take summer stock of Noel Coward's vintage comedy at Roundabout
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★★★☆☆ Jennifer Tilly and Daphne Rubin-Vega lead The New Group's fresh staging of an expressionist drama
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★★★☆☆ Marla Mindelle, Jim Parsons and a merry crew sail off on a little spoof about a big disaster
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★★★☆☆ Luke Murphy directs and choreographs a modern Irish saga of murder, property and obsession
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★★★★☆ A queer reimagining of a classic brings naughty but nice ballroom culture to Broadway
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★★★☆☆ Patrick Page is formidable as a noble Roman driven mad in Red Bull's staging of Shakespeare's shocker
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