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★★★ Rock'n'roll is here to stay, though we learn little about the man who made it happen
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★★★ A decade after its first air guitar riff, the hair-metal jukebox musical is back"and it's still nothin' but a good time
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Wendell Pierce and Sharon D. Clarke shine in the Arthur Miller classic at the Young Vic; the Almeida brings us a haunting new play
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The controversial playwright takes on a ripped-from-the-headlines sex scandal, with intriguing but uneven results
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Excellent new productions of The Light in the Piazza, at Southbank Centre, and Fiddler on the Roof, at the Playhouse
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Ibsen's long-overlooked Rosmersholm turns out to be terrific, while the century-old Rutherford and Son doesn't catch fire
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★ The latest commissioned endeavor in the Hudson Yards arts space is an incredible mishmash of martial arts, pop songs, and a silly story
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★★★★ David Cale's one-man show is a moving memoir of horrors and escape, with songs
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★★★★ The writer-performer flies solo in this musical memoir about his coming of age in Luton, England
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★★★ A new musical by and featuring Grace McLean recalls a singular woman (and saint) to beguiling, bewildering effect
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★★★ A cool though cryptic musical considers Hildegard von Bingen
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★★★★ The 1978 musical gets a City Center"centered update for the five-performance concert-style revival
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★★★★ Studs Terkel's classic interviews with Tilly the Toiler, Tommy the Tiller, and others are musicalized with class and concern
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Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer-winner thrives in this Donmar Warehouse production, while Stephen Mallatratt's 1989 thriller runs on and on
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Two concurrent plays in the Berkshires examine the effect of fairy tales, whether on the body human or the body politic
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★★★★ Lydia R. Diamond hits one right up the middle with her play about the first female Negro League ballplayer
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★★★★ Micheál mac LÃammoÃr's couldn't-be-more-Irish play, keenly directed by Aidan Redmond
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★★ A rural Irish melodrama of 1948 vintage needs some magic to thrive
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★★★★ The one-night salute featured fiery performances from ate Baldwin, Ashley Park, Donna Murphy, and Petula Clark
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★★★ Lydia R. Diamond casts new light on the Negro League legend and first lady of professional baseball
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Garcia Lorca's folk tragedy invokes earth, fire, and water, but gets mostly infused with air
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★★★★Michael J. Jackson takes on identity, and Tyler Perry, in a funny, haunting and truly original new musical
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★★★★★ Jackie Sibblies Drury's Pulitzer Prize-winner is uncomfortably, defiantly spectacular
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★★★★ Jackie Sibblies Drury's 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama reopens in a larger theater
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★★★★ An expert cast, directed expertly by Jeff Wise, has fun tossing a Chekhovian theme salad
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