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Based on John Carney's '80s-set film from 2016, 'Sing Street' makes a leaden, uninspired Off Broadway debut.
'The Thin Place' is a welcome appearance of Hnath the creepy fabulist, the haunted magician who revels in the uncanny and liminal.
An obscure German drama about guilt and mob mentality is the latest play to take on the test of filling the Armory's massive space.
'Harry Townsend's Last Stand' takes a serious subject and dusts it with humor.
Diablo Cody weaves the songs of Alanis Morissette's 1990s megahit into jukebox musical that tries to harness the power of its source material.
Writer and HIV/AIDS educator John MrDargh and his husband, Tim Dunn, reflect on Matthew Lopez's epic two-part play, and what a new generation of LGBTQ activists now face.
For the team behind Classical Theatre of Harlem's modernized Dickens' classic, it's personal.
He's directing his longtime friends Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick in Neil Simon's 1968 comedic marital triptych 'Plaza Suite.'
Just try to leave the theater with dry eyes.
Adrienne Warren, playing Tina Turner, is deserving of applause, but the show around her borders on sacrilege of a living goddess.
He's been called 'the most technically accomplished male ballet dancer in the United States.' Here, Herman Cornejo talks about the most memorable moments in his career so far.
An amalgam of dance, concert and TED Talk, the sweet, quirky piece comes across as David Byrne's literal brainchild.
Mary-Louise Parker plays a solitary Yale fiction professor who develops a relationship with a first year student. But it doesn't lead where you might think.
She is so fine in a role conceived for the volcanic Italian superstar Anna Magnani that holding center stage amid a swirl of overproduced, over-the-top distractions, she deserves an award of…
How having a daughter, and considering her legacy as a queer black woman and political activist, made Staceyann Chin decide she wanted more agency in writing her own history.
For all its wit, structural sophistication, and still-resonant political punch, 'Soft Power' is probably still too weird and freethinking to convert the masses.
'I was born to lay my hands on her story,' Hall says of Turner, an idol since the age or 3 or 4. Writing the book for 'The Tina Turner Musical' gave the playwright a chance to sit down with …
A story of one man's toxic masculinity and the humiliating wake-up call he needed.
At times it's overwritten, easily distracted and a bit glib, but for what he manages to do, Jeremy O. Harris deserves a standing ovation.
It had a profound effect the night I saw it on an audience that was visibly moved
The new Broadway season is officially in motion, and so far unofficially underwhelming.
All the world's a stage… or now an 'AI stage.'
Tears spring to eyes, pauses drag too long, recalling a limp episode of couples therapy.Â
Tammy Blanchard finally won the role she always felt she was meant to play. Here's how she handles the comedy and pain of the complex 'Little Shop of Horrors' character.
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