10 Worst Theater Productions of 2018, From Jimmy Buffet to ‘King Kong’ (Photos)
TheWrap’s Best & Worst 2018: Only in retrospect do the year’s biggest misfires bring smiles to a theatergoer’s face
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10 Best Theater Productions of 2018, From ‘Ferryman’ to ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet’ (Photos)
TheWrap’s Best & Worst 2018: Visionary directors delivered amazing revivals of “My Fair Lady,” “Oklahoma!” and “Three Tall Women,” but great new plays dominated this year
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‘Network’ Broadway Review: Bryan Cranston Conjures a Burnt-Out Bill O’Reilly
Director Ivo van Hove’s kinetic, immersive production dominates until Paddy Chayevsky’s moralizing takes over in the show’s second half
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‘The Cher Show’ Broadway Review: Stephanie J Block Is Strong Enough to Be the Real Star
The new musical recycles all the originality and wit of old network TV
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‘The Hard Problem’ Theater Review: Tom Stoppard Is Soft on Brain Science
A true believer does battle with the true scientists in a surprisingly sentimental play starring Jon Tenney and Adelaide Clemens
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‘Downstairs’ Theater Review: Tyne Daly and Tim Daly Play Siblings Plagued With Demons Past and Present
Theresa Rebeck writes a surprise thriller
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‘The Prom’ Broadway Review: Indiana’s Back on the LGBT Chopping Block
Four ham actors take on a bunch of homophobes in the Midwest. It’s not sure who wins
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‘Wild Goose Dreams’ Theater Review: When Computers Upstage a North Korean Defector
Hansol Jung’s new play says it’s tough to get personal in a world filled with machines. Her computer chorus, however, tells us something else
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‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ Theater Review: Raul Esparza Sends Up Hitler in the Age of Trump
Even Charlie Chaplin wasn’t this good at mocking Adolf Hitler
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‘King Kong’ Broadway Review: Giant Puppet Upstages the Mere Humans
Broadway’s biggest animatronic leading man somehow survives an inept book by John Thorne, who gave us “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”
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‘Torch Song’ Theater Review: Harvey Fierstein Passes It to Michael Urie
In the original, Fierstein’s outrageousness got you through the play’s lumpy soap opera moments. Urie, in the revival, works the suds
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‘Days of Rage’ Theater Review: This Revolution Won’t Be Televised
Steven Levenson (“Dear Evan Hansen”) sets his new play during the Vietnam War, but leaves his characters stranded in a middle-class limbo
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‘The Waverly Gallery’ Broadway Review: Kenneth Lonergan Remembers a Lost, Eccentric Life
A starry cast — Elaine May, Lucas Hedges, Joan Allen, and Michael Cera — brings an early work from the writer to Broadway
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‘The Ferryman’ Broadway Review: Jez Butterworth and Sam Mendes Unload on the IRA
Big, broad and often busy performances re-create the horror of the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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‘The Lifespan of a Fact’ Broadway Review: Daniel Radcliffe Stands Up for the Truth
A new play about facts vs “the truth” turns into a vanity project for writer John D’Agata
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‘Mother of the Maid’ Theater Review: Behind Every Successful Child There’s a Glenn Close
In her absorbing new drama, Jane Anderson (“The Wife”) again puts a behind-the-scenes woman where she belongs: center stage
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‘Apologia’ Theater Review: Stockard Channing and Hugh Dancy Recall What Went Wrong
In his new play, Alexi Kaye Campbell (“Woman in Gold”) explains why women still can’t have it all — if you ask their children
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‘Girl From the North Country’ Theater Review: Bob Dylan Survives Another Musical
Conor McPherson drops the songwriter’s music into a play that can best be described as “Not So Grand Hotel”
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‘The Nap’ Broadway Review: Nobody Takes a Rest in This Outrageous Comedy
You don’t need to know a thing about snooker to enjoy Richard Bean’s new play
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‘Bernhardt/Hamlet’ Broadway Review: Who’s More Divine, the Bard or Janet McTeer?
Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy looks back with admiration at a “childishly egotistical” genius in the theater
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‘I Was Most Alive With You’ Theater Review: Making a Case Against the Book of Job
Everything but the locusts descend on a family and their adopted gay deaf son in Craig Lucas’s new play
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‘The True’ Theater Review: Edie Falco Gets Stranded in Albany
Sharr White’s new play puts a foul-mouth political dynamo center stage and surrounds her with male ciphers
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‘Collective Rage’ Theater Review: Dana Delany Switches Teams in an Absurdist Delight
Jen Silverman’s comedy is perfectly nonsensical in its telling exploration of five women’s very fluid sex life.
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‘Pretty Woman’ Broadway Review: The Hooker Julia Roberts Made Famous Is Back, and She Can Belt
Samantha Barks and Andy Karl take over for Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in a too-faithful stage adaptation of the movie. But who forgot to invite Cinderella?
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‘Gettin’ the Band Back Together’ Broadway Review: They Were Better Off Going Solo
A new musical about the unemployed in New Jersey recalls the glory days of the vanity show on Broadway
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‘Be More Chill’ Theater Review: This Coming-of-Age Musical Is a Real Pill to Swallow
An internet phenomenon, based on Ned Vizzini’s cult novel, arrives on stage with all the flavor of fast-food chicken. It’s crispy
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‘The House That Will Not Stand’ Theater Review: A Mesmerizing Look at Women in 1813 New Orleans
Free women of color cope with the Louisiana Purchase in Marcus Gardley’s often funny new play
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‘Head Over Heels’ Broadway Review: The Go-Go’s Travel Back to the 17th Century
In the time-honored tradition of “Mamma Mia!,” the hit songs have nothing to do with the tale being told
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‘This Ain’t No Disco’ Theater Review: Is Studio 54 Ready for Another 15 Minutes of Fame?
Steve Rubell and someone who looks and acts a lot like Andy Warhol face off in an evil-twin contest, from the makers of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”
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‘Straight White Men’ Broadway Review: Typecasting Armie Hammer and Josh Charles
In their Broadway debuts, the actors play male types we’ve seen them embody in far better movies and TV shows
