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★★★★★ Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, and a charismatic ensemble leap out of a queer time capsule from 1968
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★★★★ Clare Barron's unusual new play wildly reflects the mindsets of young teen girls
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★★★ Writer Caryl Churchill and director Rachel Chavkin deliver a time-melding history lesson at New York Theatre Workshop
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★★★★ Passionate performances by Marin Ireland and Nathan Darrow ignite Tennessee Williams' rarely-staged romantic drama
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★★★ Living portraits of riffraff gleam amid an arty Broadway revival of a classic
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★★ A cheerful Condola Rashad confidently portrays Shaw's saintly warrior as a pleasant peasant
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★★★ Lucy Thurber's latest drama contrasts a couple of disadvantaged students who aim for a better life
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★★★ A French antique is smartly refinished by David Ives, but gets tarnished by its express delivery
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★★★★ A diabolical visitor encounters amazing grace in Conor McPherson's supernatural Irish drama
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★★★★ An imaginative quasi-documentary sees an elephant's precious tusks pass through a chain of ivory traffickers
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★★★★ The bittersweet Rodgers & Hammerstein classic sounds far lovelier than it looks
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★★★ An incandescent Daphne Rubin-Vega blazes through a topical new musical at The Public
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★★ A sorrowful teen survivor wonders: "So why don't the grown-ups just fix it?"
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★★★★ Chris Evans and Michael Cera face off in a provocative study of shady behavior at the newly redone Hayes Theater
★ Dan Lauria depicts an arrogant artist in a tedious mix of shallow dramatics and fanciful visuals.
★★★★ Billy Crudup smoothly portrays a seductive rogue and his many admirers in a new solo play.
★★★ In Later Life, A.R. Gurney paints a Jamesian portrait of a gentleman's second chance at true love.
★★ Ed Harris leads excellent actors through a loosely-knit string of case studies in David Rabe's overlong new drama.
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In "Exit the King" by the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, a 400-year-old ruler must go, eventually.
The rarely produced play, visually updated in this revival by the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, pits a scornful Roman consul against a boisterous populace.
The award-winning 'Circle Mirror Transformation,' a study of an amateur drama class, is the inaugural offering of a formerly vagabond company.
This revival in the New Jersey theater stays true to the classic musical with traditional staging, high-flying dances and teenage-fueled emotion.
A trio of shady ladies figure in "Villainous Company," Victor L. Cahn's new play, with duplicitous doings and plot twists.
Noël Coward's play, about a man whose ex-lover confronts him with details of his dark past, offers conflict, surprise and an affecting conclusion.
