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‘The Minutes’ Broadway Review. Tracy Letts Delivers a Civics Lesson in 90 Minutes
The playwright also stars in this dark comedy about a really bad mayor
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‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ Off Broadway Review: James McAvoy Plays a Poet Stud
Less poetry and more sex makes for a very contempo take on the classic
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‘To My Girls’ Off Broadway Review: JC Lee Updates ‘The Boys in the Band’ for Millennial Gay Men
A new comedy set in a Palm Springs Airbnb tackles white gay male privilege
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‘The Little Prince’ Broadway Review: Classic Tale Gets Dull Cirque du Soleil Lite Treatment
Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s classic falls to Earth with a thud in a new staging
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‘Birthday Candles’ Broadway Review: Debra Messing Bakes a Cake and Ages Ungracefully
Playwright Noah Haidle writes a high-concept tear-jerker
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‘Suffs’ Off Broadway Review: Shaina Taub Pulls a Lin-Manuel Miranda With Tour-de-Force Suffragette Musical
Taub wears four musical-theater hats with real flair
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‘Take Me Out’ Broadway Review: Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams Hit It Out of the Ballpark
Terrific performances make Richard Greenberg’s play worth a second look
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‘Paradise Square’ Broadway Review: Call Her Madam, or Return of the Happy Hookers
A new musical finds much to admire in the oldest profession
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‘Plaza Suite’ Broadway Review: Sarah Jessica Parker Toils While Matthew Broderick Coasts
The Neil Simon comeback does not begin here
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‘Confederates’ Off Broadway Review: Dominique Morisseau Suggests College Is the New Plantation
Playwright delivers a lecture on racism in record time
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‘Help’ Off Broadway Review: Claudia Rankine’s Revolution Begins in First Class
The poet and playwright recycles a New York Times essay on white male privilege in dazzling produced show
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‘The Chinese Lady’ Off Broadway Review: A Forgotten Immigrant in 19th-Century America Takes Center Stage
Lloyd Suh’s play puts a spotlight on a most unusual real-life figure
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‘On Sugarland’ Off Broadway Review: Aleshea Harris’ Sweeping Look at Black Life Amid Endless Wars
Harris nods to Tennessee Williams in her look at life in a Southern cul-de-sac near an Army base
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‘English’ Off Broadway Review: Sanaz Toossi’s Play Gets Lost in Translation
Playwright explores the challenges of teaching English to Farsi speakers in Iran
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‘Black No More’ Off Broadway Review: A New Musical Declaws a Classic Book
John Ridley, Tariq Trotter, Scott Elliott and Bill T. Jones wrestle with George S. Schuyler’s difficult legacy
