‘All the Natalie Portmans’ Theater Review: The Oscar Winner Fuels a Teenager’s Fantasies
C.A. Johnson’s new drama is driven by Kara Young’s terrific performance. Less wonderful is the ”Black Swan“ star
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‘Cambodian Rock Band’ Theater Review: A Fresh Look at the Khmer Rouge That Oozes Suspense
Lauren Yee’s play explores the atrocities of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge with a narrator who’s as funny as he is wicked and warped
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‘West Side Story’ Broadway Review: Will Ivo van Hove’s Cinematic Revival Upstage Steven Spielberg?
The classic musical about the Sharks and the Jets has never been tougher or better
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‘Anatomy of a Suicide’ Theater Review: Carla Gugino and Company Face Their Own End
Alice Birch’s new play exposes the false escape hatch that is motherhood
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‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’ Theater Reviews: Our Favorite Monsters Get a Makeover
Bram Stoker gets an unexpected transfusion. Mary Shelley should demand a rewrite
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‘Darling Grenadine’ Theater Review: Daniel Zaitchik’s Original Musical Is Wonderful and Unabashedly Romantic
A new talent in the theater dazzles with a simple but ultimately dark love story
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‘Hamlet’ Theater Review: Ruth Negga Delivers Bard’s Danish Prince as Joker Jr.
The Oscar-nominated actor pulls a Sarah Bernhardt in her American stage debut
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‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ Theater Review: Duncan Sheik’s Musical Version of ’60s Classic Doesn’t Swing
Paul Mazursky’s classic movie now has singing couples, plus Suzanne Vega as bandleader/narrator
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‘The Thin Place’ Theater Review: Lucas Hnath Conjures a Seance Worth Attending
The playwright frustrates and then seduces with a drama that lives on the edges of his heroine’s face
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10 Worst New York Theater Productions of 2019, From ‘Beetlejuice’ to Gary Busey’s ‘Only Human’ (Photos)
Bad musicals dominated the must-avoid shows of the year. Ear plugs were de riguer apparel
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10 Best New York Theater Productions of 2019, From ‘The Sound Inside’ to ‘Halfway Bitches’ (Photos)
For the second year in a row, original works instead of revivals were the must-see events of the year
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‘Judgment Day’ Theater Review: Christopher Shinn Adapts a Story the Nazis Banned
A German rarity from the 1930s returns in a massive production by Richard Jones
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‘Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven’ Theater Review: Stephen Adly Guirgis Delivers the Funniest, Saddest Play of the Year
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright delivers a female ”Iceman Cometh“ for this century
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‘Greater Clements’ Theater Review: Judith Ivey Carries the Very Heavy Load of a Son
The actor brings her naturalistic gifts to Samuel D. Hunter’s uneven new play about life in a town that deserves to die
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‘Jagged Little Pill’ Broadway Review: Alanis Morissette’s Classic Album Becomes a #MeToo Angst Fest
Oscar-winning writer Diablo Cody and the Tony-winning director Diane Paulus join forces for a super-topical jukebox musical
