The New Yorker — BroadwayStars

If you haven't been following this year's Broadway season, you'd be forgiven for thinking that what aired last night on CBS was some kind of infomercial for a compilation CD of the songs of …

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The Boards: Show Cops by Michael Schulman

The police precincts that cover Broadway theatres will receive an honorary Tony, but Inspector William Matusiak of Midtown North has never heard of Officer Krupke...

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Reality Checks, by John Lahr

In his new play, The Metal Children, Adam Rapp turns a book-banning incident from his past into a rueful, compelling fantasy, which dramatizes the paradoxical gap between the artist and his artifact.

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THE BOARDS: Finding the Funny by Lizzie Widdicombe

Benjamin Walker plays Andrew Jackson in eyeliner.

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A CRITIC AT LARGE<br> Mr. Broadway by John Lahr

Neil Simon's comic empire.

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Caged Heat by Hilton Als

"La Cage aux Folles" and "Sondheim on Sondheim."

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Festering by John Lahr

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THE BOARDS: Home Again by Peter Stevenson

For Christopher Walken, Astoria is the old neighborhood.

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Escape Artist by John Lahr

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High Hopes by Joan Acocella

Twyla Tharp's "Come Fly Away."

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Telling It Like It Isn't by John Lahr

"The Glass Menagerie" re-staged.

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SPRING PREVIEW: Night Life

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SPRING PREVIEW: The Theatre

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Family Guy by Hilton Als

David Cromer's latest staging.

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Don't Ask Me by Paul Rudnick

As a gay man, I naturally spend much of my time debating casting issues involving the musical theatre, although, thankfully, I can't share such thoughts with my unit. Instead, when I spot a …

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