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Shaina Taub's new Broadway musical about Alice Paul and the fight for women's suffrage is smart and noble and a bit like a rally.
The 30-year relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson is the basis for Suzan-Lori Parks's hilarious and harrowing nesting doll of a play.
A musical about the groundbreaking Art Deco painter is vocally thrilling but historically a blur.
The classic coming-of-age novel has become a compelling, if imperfect, musical about have-not teenagers in a have-it-all world.
In works like "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," the playwright would force you to laugh, not to dull the pain but to hone it.
Will the Who's rock opera about a traumatized boy hit the jackpot again?
The circus-themed love story, already a novel and a movie, becomes a gorgeously imaginative Broadway musical.
A cult horror film about a teenage girl with a surprise set of chompers gets another surprise: the song-and-dance treatment.
The "Succession" star headlines a Broadway revival of Ibsen's play about a lifesaving doctor and the town that hates him.
The 2004 weepie comes to Broadway with songs by Ingrid Michaelson and a $5 box of tissues.
Liev Schreiber and Amy Ryan star in a revival of John Patrick Shanley's moral head spinner about pride, the priesthood and presumptions of pedophilia.
Sufjan Stevens's 2005 concept album has become an unlikely and unforgettable dance-musical hybrid, directed and choreographed by Justin Peck.
Recordings of Broadway musicals are often better than the shows they preserve. Here's a ranking of last year's crop, with samples and bonus tracks.
Itamar Moses's play offers eloquent arguments on all sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it doesn't offer much drama.
Did Jelly Roll Morton "invent" jazz, as he claimed? A sensational Encores! revival offers a postmortem prosecution of one of the form's founding fathers.
Eighteen openings in two months will drive everyone crazy. But maybe there should be even more.
Worldwide colony collapse is the subject of a bright, strange, upbeat thought experiment about insect hives, and our own.
An unlikely dark comedy imagines the people pushing #PizzaGate, Donald Trump and who knows what next.
An Off Broadway musical about the sins of journalistic fabrication might benefit from more make-believe.
How watching gay coming-of-age stories has helped repair a heart still stuck in the past " and still scarred by a less welcoming world.
Her dancing sometimes overshadowed her thrillingly dramatic way with a song: husky yet clarion, unaffected but full of comment and character.
Her dancing sometimes overshadowed her thrillingly dramatic way with a song: husky yet clarion, unaffected but full of comment and character.
Less than 30 years after her death, fictional reincarnations of Diana are everywhere. But even icons deserve more time to rest in peace.
Heather Christian's latest exploration of the religious sublime is a musical spectacle about the often overlooked "caregivers and makers."
In Joshua Harmon's play about the legacies of antisemitism, a Parisian family must decide when it's time to get out.
