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★★★★★ Micaela Diamond shares the accolades in the Jason Robert Brown-Alfred Uhry musical, directed by Michael Arden
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★★★★★ Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown examine the historical roots of our national malaise, in this bold, character-driven staging starring Ben Platt
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★★★★☆ Once an unsuccessful musical, now directed by Josh Rhodes at City Center with a top-drawer cast
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★★★★☆ Encores! shines a spotlight on yet another overlooked Jerry Herman musical with a troubled history and memorable score
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★★★☆☆ Suzan-Lori Parks musicalizes the 1972 film with a skilled cast and crew but sugarcoats the original's gritty realism
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★★★★☆ Suzan-Lori Parks rounds up songs from Jimmy Cliff, others for a fun, tough time
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★★★★☆ Keith Bunin's play revolves around six passengers who imagine what they might have said to each other
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★★★☆☆ Playwright Liliana Padilla looks at self-defense of both body and mind
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★★★★☆ A trio of differently abled performers embody Ryan J. Haddad's rollicking collection of real-life tales.
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★★★★☆ Director Jamie Lloyd brings his stark production of Amy Herzog's modernistic adaptation to the Hudson
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★★☆☆☆ Jessica Chastain stars in Jamie Lloyd's minimalist staging, resembling an actors' exercise, of Ibsen's classic.
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★★★★☆ The British performer mixes poetry, music, comedy, and piles and piles of orange balloons in his Olivier Award"nominated play
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★★★☆☆ Arinzé Kene's balloon-laden "Black play," with him starring, Omar Elerian directing
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★★★★☆ Lynn Nottage's 1950s-set richly crafted coming-of-age play gets its first New York restaging thanks to the Keen Company
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★★★★☆ With this, her first produced work, Nottage tossed out the rulebook for "well-made" plays and came up with a doozy.
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★★☆☆☆ Anyone who attempts to tread in Wilde's footsteps had better be devilishly adroit " sadly not the case in this clumsy exercise.
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★★☆☆☆ Agnes Borinsky writes, Tina Satter directs, 12-member cast performs
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★★★★☆ Matt de Rosatis grabs the Tennessee Williams play, Joe Rosario directs
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★★★☆☆ Lear deBessonet directs the Alan Menken-David Zippel musical featuring Bradley Gibson, James Monroe Iglehart, Shuler Hensley and Isabelle McCalla
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★★★★★ Alexander Zeldin's "you-are-there" study of a London housing shelter delivers edge-of-the-seat impact
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★★☆☆☆ Emily Feldman's new play, directed by Daniel Aukin, has its drawbacks
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★★★☆☆ Hovering midway between parody and homage, this modernist rendering of a justifiable classic proves neither illuminating nor much fun.
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★★☆☆☆ Parker Posey heads the cast of Thomas Bradshaw's cheaply vulgar modern-day adaptation of Chekhov's classic.
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★★★★☆ Sarah Ruhl's newest work proves a deeply moving meditation on life and the afterlife
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★★★☆☆ Sarah Ruth's epistolary homage to late poet Max Ritvo, Kate Whoriskey directs
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