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★★★★ A classical ballet reimagined as a bisexual psychodrama briefly revisits New York
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★★★★ Keone and Mari Madrid lead highly-energized 12-member dance troupe with inspiration
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★★★★ Playwright Zora Howard debuts Off-Broadway with a tasty kitchen sink-type drama
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★★★★★ Director Michael Greif brings the musical to D.C. for a brief but intensely emotional run starring Rachel Bay Jones
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★★★★ Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale star in Simon Stone's harrowing tragedy, "after" the Euripides classic
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★★★ Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale menace each other well as star-crossed former lovers
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★★★★ Carl Andress directs Busch, Nancy Anderson, Howard McGillin, others in heart-felt spoof
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★★ Charles Busch stars as a self-sacrificing mama in his send-up of Pre-Code Hollywood flicks
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★★★★ Bess Wohl gets big laughs from a long-married couple, their potential divorce, and their flabbergasted adult children
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★★ Strong comedy performances offset the surprisingly mild script by the usually adventurous Bess Wohl
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★★★★ Kenny Leon directs David Alan Grier, Blair Underwood and skilled cast on race madness
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★★★ This probing but flawed Pulitzer winner gets a gorgeous revival staged by Kenny Leon with David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood
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★★★ Eboni Booth sets her insightful working class drama in a big box store in 1995
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★★★★ Shakespeare's rarely produced tale of a big-hearted spendthrift gets a powerful production with a first-rate female Timon
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★★★ Kathryn Hunter plays the title figure in a relatively obscure play by Shakespeare (and Thomas Middleton)
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★★★★ A delightful new musical takes us behind the screen"of our smartphones.
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★★★★ A smart new docudrama studies history re-enactors whose pastime can be obsessive
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★★★★ Laura Linney shines in this Richard Eyre"directed one-woman show about the unbreakable, intricate mother-daughter bond
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★★★★ Elizabeth Strout's best-seller is convincingly brought to the stage in Rona Munro's adaptation, directed by Richard Eyre
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★★★ The writer-director-performer uses footage, pop music, numerous wigs to make his point(s)
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★★★ Multi-tasking Canadian star and Gen Xer Rick Miller channels baby boomers and their icons, in words and music
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★★★ Eva O'Connor joins Ciaran O'Brien in her rom-com-plus Dublin two-hander
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★★★ A heated discussion about almost all of today's turbulent real and fake news issues
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★★★★★ Scott Price, Sarah Mainwaring, Michael Chan, Simon Laherty brilliantly discuss human limitations
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★★★ Japanese playwright Suguru Yamamoto collages dance, drama, text, and video in his study of urban existence
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