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What initially seems an obsessive-compulsive mash note to The Simpsons becomes a brain-teasing deconstruction of pop culture and more.
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Zachary Quinto brings a sulking but simmering aggression to Tom, played as a man who knows who he isn't, but not who he is.
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Much like the character of Edward Bloom, Big Fish tries too hard to convince us that it's special.
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For the theatergoer, the Shaw Festival offers the increasingly rare opportunity of seeing a large repertory acting company at work.
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The Machine, in short, is an anti-capitalist tragedy that spends half its time looking like a sci-fi melodrama and the other half like a biopic.
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With expert comic timing and devastating charm, Urie plays an out-of-work gay actor who's hired to work for Barbra Streisand.
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What kind of Hamish Linklater fan you are likely depends on what kind of entertainment you take in the most.
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Lyle Kessler's Orphans has got some major daddy issues.
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This Shadows is exhilarating and deeply playful, a lively dance between art and reality.
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Ladies and gentlemen, don't be a sucker. Step right up to Pippin, the greatest homegrown show of the season.
The post Climb on Board: <em>Pippin</em> at the Music Box Theatre app…
Lucas Hnath's indictment of Disney is both clever and total.
The post Melodrama for the Anti-Capitalist Crowd: <em>A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt …
While all the elements have been cooked to perfection, what sticks to the ribs is the hint of rawness at its center of things.
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The best Off Broadway productions so far this year would probably make lousy movies.
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We sat down with Beane in the historic Lyceum theater to talk about his works now playing on Broadway.
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Even when The Whale wanders into heavily fished waters, it still comes up with fresh revelations and bracing truths.
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It takes some nerve for a playwright to adapt a fellow playwright's work, especially since most reworkings come a cropper.
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Mandvi talked to us recently about the play and his role as the lawyer.
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O'Hara spoke to us recently about his collaboration with actor-playwright Colman Domingo.
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Satchmo at the Waldorf becomes the story of Louis Armstrong's life as he probably would have liked it to be told interpersonally
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Thomas is back on Broadway in the Manhattan Theatre Club's revival of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People.
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Adjmi keeps his audience on its toes by constantly demonstrating how hysterical laughter can signal trauma.
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We recently spoke with the actor about his career and his current role.
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At La MaMA, a group of downtown artists have concocted a theater piece that aims to take the sting out of death.
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We recently caught up with Kahane and Bockley to chat about February House, a musical based on Sherill Tippins's book.
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You could call it a tragicomedy of mistaken identities.
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