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★★★★☆ Mays delivers a tour-de-force performance in this theatrically dazzling one-person version of Dickens' holiday classic.
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★★★★★ The many-times-told classic, tied with glittering ribbons by a highly creative production team
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★★★☆☆ Written at 18, the future master shows early signs fans will appreciate checking out
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★★☆☆☆ The entire Judeo-Christian creation myth, wrapped in one woman's very trying week.
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★★★☆☆ Marjan Neshat stars in David Cale's one-person play about a woman who goes to Mexico in search of her missing friend.
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★★★★☆ The hit London musical arrives on Broadway with cannons of confetti and a catalog full of chart-toppers
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★★★★☆ This Broadway musical featuring dozens of pop hits from the catalogue of songwriter/producer Max Martin imagines what might have happened if Juliet didn't…
★★★☆☆ A rare opportunity to hang out with London's witty literary crowd, circa 1770.
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★★★☆☆ David Cromer directs Bess Wohl's intimate account of young love tainted by hateful ideology
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★★★★☆ Pam McKinnon directs the attitude-challenging Steppenwolf/National Theatre co-production
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★★★★☆ Life, death, and the pursuit of pizza in Brooklyn
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★★★★☆ The popular comic brings his own brand of gregarious, low-level neuroticism back to Broadway
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The Café Carlyle back in full swing, with prime entertainment
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★★★★★ David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori transform a quirky black comedy into a tuneful affirmation of life and difference
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★★★★★ The last chapter in a young girl's abbreviated life proves heartwarmingly hilarious
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★★★☆☆ Clever playwright Mia Chung is aided by director Daniel Aukin and three spirited actors
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★★★★☆ Jack Cummings III, a deft hand at reviving top-drawer plays, directs six strong actors
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★★☆☆☆ Unimaginatively script aside, this rehashed fairy tale features some spectacular dancing.
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★★★★☆ The playwright relives her Philly-Rican upbringing, while directing a first-rate five-member cast
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★★★★☆ Playwright Noah Diaz probes one salient flaw in the human condition: mortality.
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★★★☆☆ Ukrainian artist Igor Golyak plays fast and loose with a classic text, to intriguing if mixed results (with Baryshnikov)
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★★★★☆ The renovated Huntington reopens with a full-blooded, full-voiced revival of an August Wilson classic
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★★★☆☆ Tom Kitt does the music and some lyrics, while Jeremy Herrin directs a cast of hot rock belters
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★★★☆☆ Newcomer Casey Likes shines as a 15-year-old rock-journo wannabe, growing up fast in 1973.
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