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★★★☆☆ Ted Sperling conducts/directs Vanessa Williams, Elizabeth Stanley, Santino Fontana, Joanna Gleason, many more to effect
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★★★☆☆ Santino Fontana and Elizabeth Stanley shine in an under-rehearsed semi-staging of the Sondheim-Laurents not-quite-masterwork
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★★★★☆ A fine ensemble cast serves Peter Gil-Sheridan's study of a successful man trying, against all odds, to make a difference
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★★★★☆ Playwright Lloyd Suh draws on real-life 19th-century events with 21st-century ramifications in this Ma-Yi Theater, Barrington Stage, and Public Theater pr…
★★★☆☆ The story of the first Chinese woman in America is horrifying, and all these years later we're still telling it
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★★★★☆ Ciarán O'Reilly directs a worthy revival of a play about a raging pub owner bent on his own destruction
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The fashion entrepreneur charms in his guise as saloon singer
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★★★★☆ Aleshea Harris explores the aftermath of war and the shades of grief in a shattering new play
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★★★☆☆ Whitney White directs a smooth ensemble portraying people trying to persist in a far-flung Southern cul-de-sac
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★★★★☆ Five BIPOC playwrights, five BIPOC actors, directed by Les Waters, hit involving high notes
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★★★☆☆ Playwright Charly Evon Simpson has a strong but compromised say, mightily helped by her director and cast
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★★★★☆ A smart cast, under Knud Adams' smart direction, speak in two tongues but both English
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★★★☆☆ Sanaz Toosi's play concerns a group of adult Iranian students attempting to learn English.
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★★★★☆ Martin Platt once again helms a bracing revival of the socially and emotionally charged play
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★★★☆☆ The Mint returns with D.H. Lawrence's posthumously unearthed "problem play"
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★★★★★ In Hansol Jung's heartbreaking play, an adopted boy assumes a lupine identity while trying to find a place to call home
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★★★★✩ John Douglas Thompson brings a steadfast gaze and spine of steel to the much-maligned Shylock
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★★★★☆ Arin Arbus directs a cast in which some act flashily and some put too much flash in their acting
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★★★★☆ Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and inspired colleagues, under Scott Elliott's direction, examine today's racist dilemmas
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★★★☆☆ There's a wealth of talent both on and off stage in this highly ambitious musical inspired by George S. Schuyler's 1931 Afrofuturist novel.
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★★★✩✩ A two-man metamusical about the space race pays tribute to the power of the dog
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★★★★★ Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster headline a blockbuster Music Man revival that puts the grin in grift
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★★★★☆ Meredith Willson's joyful musical comedy is back, with Jerry Zaks directing and Warren Carlyle choreographing
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★★★☆☆ Playwright Dave Harris plucks characters from long-repudiated minstrel shows to make his sadly pertinent points
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★★★☆☆ Choreographer Jared Grimes brings cheer to the Henry Krieger-Robet Lorick-Charles Blackwell musical, directed by Kenny Leon
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