‘The End of Longing’ Theater Review: Matthew Perry Recycles as Both Playwright and Star
What begins as a sexy, trite sitcom turns into the kind of treacly TV drama that populated the major networks before cable came to the rescue
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‘Building the Wall’ Theater Review: A View of Post-Trump America Both Powerful and Preposterous
Just when you think the revelations in Robert Schenkkan’s new play can’t get any darker, they turn a deeper shade of black
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‘Can You Forgive Her?’ Theater Review: Amber Tamblyn Copes With Extreme Student Debt
Her character finds a sugar daddy, played by Frank Wood, who steals the show (after it’s almost over)
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‘The Whirligig’ Theater Review: Zosia Mamet Climbs a Tree on Guilt Trip
Hamish Linklater’s new play about substance abuse in old New England often leaves its fine young cast grasping for big effects
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‘Derren Brown: Secret’ Theater Review: When Distraction Is Magic
The British showman is the William Castle of illusionists
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‘Arlington’ Theater Review: Enda Walsh Revisits a Few Dystopian Classics
The playwright conjures up ideas and images from “1984,” “Mara and Dann,” and “Blade Runner”
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‘Pacific Overtures’ Theater Review: Stephen Sondheim Survives the Scissors
John Doyle’s staging has humor, thanks to the inspired casting of Ann Harada. But why trim Sondheim’s score?
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Tony Award Nominations Predictions: Hello, Bette Midler and ‘Dear Evan Hansen’
The nominations for the 2016-17 Broadway season will be announced Tuesday. Since fewer than 40 shows are eligible, the competition is not always fierce
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‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ Broadway Review: Laurie Metcalf, Chris Cooper Revisit a Troubled Marriage
Lucas Hnath’s fine script calls for the actors to take very different approaches under master director Sam Gold
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‘Bandstand’ Broadway Review: Dance, Soldiers, Dance! Singing Is Another Story
Director-choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler shines with his dancing but this swing-era musical runs into problems with its book, score, and lead performances
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‘Six Degrees of Separation’ Broadway Review: Allison Janney, Corey Hawkins Get Very Close
John Guare’s comedy easily retains its place as one of the great American plays of the late 20th century in this often-raucous revival
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‘Anastasia’ Broadway Review: A Muddled, Pro-Czarist Russia Musical for the Trump Era
Is she or isn’t she the royal daughter? In the end it doesn’t matter for a musical that gives kleptocracy a good name
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‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Broadway Review: Christian Borle to the Rescue
It’s a long first act before Willy Wonka arrives. Borle makes it worth the wait
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‘Hello, Dolly!’ Broadway Review: Bette Midler Returns as Red Hot Jewish Mama
She delivers, of course! More surprising is the talented and very quirky ensemble around her, including David Hyde Pierce
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‘The Little Foxes’ Broadway Review: Laura Linney, Cynthia Nixon Mix Up the Greed and Innocence
Linney’s Regina is an icy Turandot of the South, and Nixon’s Birdie is an injured sparrow. When the two actors switch roles, unfortunately, the melodrama sputters
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‘Indecent’ Broadway Review: Who Knew Yiddish Theater Was So Gay-Friendly?
Paula Vogel re-creates a much-censored play from early 20th century featuring lesbians and prostitutes
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Inside Dominick Dunne’s Ties to Menendez Brothers: Shared Parental Abuse, Gay Identity (Exclusive Book Excerpt)
In an excerpt from his biography “Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne,” Robert Hofler reveals how Vanity Fair’s star reporter became obsessed with one of the young killers
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‘Groundhog Day’ Broadway Review: Andy Karl, a Star Is Reborn and Reborn
Actor makes you forget about Bill Murray in musical version of hit 1993 movie
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‘Oslo’ Broadway Review: The Handshake That Shook the World
J.T. Rogers delivers all the suspense that led the Israelis and PLO recognize each other’s legitimacy, but his play may leave you wanting more
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‘The Profane’ Theater Review: Middle Eastern Conflicts and Secrets in Suburban NY
Zayd Dohrn’s new drama looks at two very different Middle-Eastern immigrant families whose American-born children want to marry. There’s a problem
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‘War Paint’ Broadway Review: Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole Never Makeup
How rare it is to see two great female performances in one season, much less in one musical
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‘Gently Down the Stream’ Theater Review: Harvey Fierstein Throws a Pity Party
The star offers tedium and sympathy in Martin Sherman’s play. Another new drama about same-sex marriage, “Daniel’s Husband,” is only marginally more endurable
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‘Present Laughter’ Broadway Review: Kevin Kline and Kate Burton Are Divine
The two play their duets to perfection despite a few slapshtick distractions around the edges of this Noel Coward revival
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‘Amelie’ Broadway Review: ‘Hamilton’ Star Phillipa Soo Brings Movie Heroine to Stage
Actress plays shy French waitress who idolizes the late Princess of Wales — if only she had wanted to emulate the party-girl Diana
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‘Sweat’ Theater Review: An Extraordinary Drama Set in a Grungy Rust Belt Bar
Lynn Nottage offers a bleak political-economic picture, but in a play that will be performed long after the era it defines has passed
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‘Miss Saigon’ Broadway Review: The Helicopter Is Back, Louder than Ever
Claude-Michel Schonberg’s music for the ill-fated young lovers is only slightly less bombastic than the show’s military parades in honor of Ho Chi Minh
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‘How to Transcend a Happy Marriage’ Theater Review: Marisa Tomei Does the Math
Sarah Ruhl tackles the polyamorous in her brilliant new play — and finds love, beauty, and music among the numbers
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‘The Price’ Broadway Review: Hail, Danny DeVito, New York’s New King of Comedy!
DeVito, making his belated Broadway debut, brings his big comic persona to the stage, turning the Arthur Miller drama into a laugh fest
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‘Joan of Arc: Into the Fire’ Theater Review: David Byrne Is a True Believer About Butch Christian Saint
Heroine gets lost in a monumental showcase of nationalism and war
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‘Come From Away’ Broadway Review: Stranded in Newfoundland, as Well as the Theater
Thousands of air travelers make an unexpected stop at a small Canadian town on 9/11. You will experience their relief when this new musical gets them all back up in the air
