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★★★ Shakespeare's Richard III gets reshaped mostly for laughs
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★★★ Jackie Sibblies Drury unleashes a daring play about race, identity and expectations that gets awkward
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★ A British performer digs up Suzy Solidor, a bisexual, cross-dressing French cabaret legend who deserves better
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★★★ An old-fashioned, cowboy-country musical-comedy farce is neatly cultivated from Measure for Measure's plot
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★★★ The maker of "The Vagina Monologues" goes experimental with body and soul issues
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★★★ Anthony Giardina's ambitious new play studies money, privilege, and higher education
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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.
Possibly you are familiar with a guy like Aubrey Piper, the egotistical title figure of THE SHOW-OFF: Aubrey is a noisy know-it-all whose sense of truth is only marginally anchored in realit…
