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★★★★ Sarah-Louise Young's musical tribute to Julie Andrews is full of heart, enthusiasm, and a totally voluntary singalong
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I'm innocent. I had no idea till after it had happened that somebody with access to the now-moribund Village Voice website had decided to celebrate the 28th anniversary of my review of the B…
★★★★ Duncan Sheik and Lynn Nottage team up for a musical adaptation of the long-cherished novel
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★★★ Duncan Sheik and Sam Gold do their best to make a dramatic musical from milquetoast coming-of-age novel
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★★★★ Two Queen Elizabeths and two Margaret Thatchers battle it out, with caustic wit
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★★★ Tea and scant sympathy are shared by Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher
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★★★★★ Danielle Brooks as Beatrice and Grantham Coleman as Benedick lead the superb revival
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★★★ We do spy some marks of love in this Shakespeare in the Park production starring Danielle Brooks
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★★ The Pulitzer winner returns to Manhattan Theatre Club with a disappointing new family drama
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★★ The eminent Donald Margulies delivers a tedious effort at Manhattan Theatre Club
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★★★ Kate Hamill's modern take on a Victorian classic is not as radical as it seems
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★★ The classic American novel updated according to current gender-shifting attitudes
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★★★ Playwright Ching is close to getting her California-based drama on the right contemporary path
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★★★ Second Stage Theater revives Christopher Shinn's intimate play tracing personal struggles in the Iraq War's early stages
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★★★ Christopher Shinn directs the Second Stage revival of his Pulitzer-nominated drama
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★★★★ Race and sex are smartly studied in a delightfully adventurous play
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★★★ The acclaimed play looking at slavery's enduring legacy returns to Ars Nova
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★★★★ Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon shine in the Terrence McNally play
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★★★ Terrence McNally's play, funny, wistful, and meticulously acted, doesn't quite deliver in its second revival on Broadway
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★★★★ Kathryn Erbe is radiant as a middle-aged matron seeking a fresh start after crushing trauma
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★★★ Kathryn Erbe anchors Selina Fillinger's earnest new drama about a sex crime
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★★★★★ She's 86 but hardly 86ed in a jubilant celebration of an on-stage life
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★★★ A sprightly, nostalgic musical of the 1960s sacrifices some of the stronger qualities of its cinematic source
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More reactions to a diverse, generally rewarding current London season--and like-able Sally Field
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★★★★ Two gifted first-timers, the Brothers Lazour, find melody and hope in recent historical events marked as much by defeat as by triumph
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