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Young love ignores the consequences in a thrilling new play by Rita Kalnejais. Lane Williamson reviews.
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Ghostly troubadours haunt a lighthouse during World War II in a new musical from Kyle Jarrow and Duncan Sheik. Lane Williamson reviews.
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Is it soup? Or is it art? And how good is the soup, anyway? Loren Noveck reviews.
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A gender-swapped Company leaves the leading lady without a voice. Nicole Serratore reviews.
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Cary Grant, Aldous Huxley, and Clare Boothe Luce walk into a bar...except the bar is a Malibu estate and they're all on acid. Loren Noveck finds the hook irresistible, but the execution less…
Though it may be a crowd-pleasing romp, this adaptation of the beloved film feels curiously dated. Juliet Hindell reviews.
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Sylvia Khoury's new play explores the anguishing human costs of the United States's "Forever War" in Afghanistan. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Daniel Krane finds not a lot to hold on to in Enda Walsh's "brusque and often alienating" new play.
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Simon Stephens' new play focuses on the ordinary life of one woman in Greenwich Village, but what makes the ordinary worth depicting on stage? Lane Williamson reviews.
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Alice Childress's long-delayed Broadway debut marries simmering rage and sharp satire, and holds an uncomfortable mirror up to the theater world we still inhabit. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Erika Dickerson-Dispenza's award-winning play won't let us look away from the tragedy of Flint, Michigan. Loren Noveck reviews.
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With a stellar cast and witty lyrics, this lavish bio-musical subscribes firmly to the view that the late Princess of Wales was a saint in a golden cage. Juliet Hindell reviews.
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A jumbled production brings down the first rate cast in this revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical. Lane Williamson reviews.
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Hilary Miller and the Bushwick Starr present an incisive, if not groundbreaking, black comedy about workplace violence and robot cats. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Jocelyn Bioh takes on the world of Nigerian cinema in her delightful new play. Juliet Hindell reviews.
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Simple ingredients add up to "a bare-knuckled punch to the face" in this new work at Soho Rep. Daniel Krane reviews.
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Playwright and performer Kev Berry offers a personal essay in which he grapples with returning to theatre after the shutdown and his own journey to sobriety.
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"The temerity to see yourself at the center of it all": Does Will Eno's newest critique the myth of the hero's journey, or just give us another example of it? Ran Xia isn't so sure.
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Sharon D. Clarke is the emotional engine in a blistering new revival of Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner's operatic musical. The production, delayed by the pandemic, pushes its audience to si…
The third concert in 54 Below's Diamond Series features the mega talent Megan Hilty in a career retrospective that has our critic remembering the first time he saw her, and every time since.…
Melissa Tien's play asks, If you could turn back time, even a little bit, would that make it any easier to engineer genuine social change? Loren Noveck reviews.
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A funeral feels more like a party in Douglas Lyons' warm-hearted family comedy. Daniel Krane reviews.
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Carolee Carmello brings her incredible talent to a New Jersey revival of Jason Robert Brown's song cycle, but the piece is starting to show its age. Lane Williamson reviews.
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Lucas Hnath makes harrowing and unsettling use of his mother's life, channeled through an extraordinary performance by Deirdre O'Connell, in a piece that raises questions about the ethics of…
"There is a value to...approach[ing] unfettered capitalism with a critical eye," writes our critic, but Stefano Massini's play (as adapted by Ben Power) doesn't keep its gaze trained where i…
