‘Make Believe’ Theater Review: Why Childhood Isn’t for Sissies
The kids are not all right in Bess Wohl’s arresting new play
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‘Sea Wall/A Life’ Broadway Review: Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge Go Solo Together
Revivals of minor plays by Nick Payne and Simon Stephens get the star treatment
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‘Bat Out of Hell’ Theater Review: How to Turn a Musical Into Meat Loaf
Jim Steinman’s long-touring musical makes a summer pit stop in New York City
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‘Moulin Rouge!’ Broadway Review: Director Alex Timbers Is No Baz Luhrmann
The director continues not to impress with his latest movie-to-stage musical after “Rocky” and “Beetlejuice”
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‘Broadway Bounty Hunter’ Theater Review: Annie Golden Plays a Badass Annie Golden to Perfection
The “Orange Is the New Black” actress survives drug lords and gunfire, as well as her material
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‘Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow’ Theater Review: It’s Funny Funny Funny
Halley Feiffer and director Trip Cullman go burlesque with updated version of “The Three Sisters”
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‘Mojada’ Theater Review: Euripides’ Medea Now Lives and Murders in Queens
Luis Alfaro continues his provocative exploration of the classics by turning a spurned mother into a desperate Mexican woman
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‘The Rolling Stone’ Theater Review: The Fight Goes on for Gay Ugandans
Chris Urch’s drama examines extreme homophobia in Africa, only to find that family is more important than freedom
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‘We’re Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time’ Theater Review: Memoir as Therapy
David Cale looks back a tragedy in his family and sings about it
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‘Toni Stone’ Theater Review: A Magnificent Drama About the First Woman to Play Pro Baseball
Lydia R. Diamond’s fine fact-based new play profiles an amazing athlete and trailblazer
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‘A Strange Loop’ Theater Review: Tyler Perry Won’t Be Optioning This Musical
The man behind Madea gets roasted in Michael R. Jackson’s hilarious new musical
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‘The Secret Life of Bees’ Theater Review: Duncan Sheik’s Musical Honey Pot Runneth Over
Lynn Nottage and Duncan Sheik’s stage adaptation of the best-selling novel and movie is faithful to a fault
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‘Lost Long’ Theater Review: Donald Margulies Writes a Play That Cries Uncle
The Pulitizer Prize-winning author of “Dinner With Friends” delivers an unwanted houseguest who should never be allowed on stage
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‘Dying City’ Theater Review: Mary Elizabeth Winstead Juggles Twin Brothers
Christopher Shinn directs an uneven production of his own play set in a traumatized New York City during the Iraq War
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Tony Award Predictions 2019: From ‘Mockingbird’ Backlash to ‘Hadestown’
The winners are announced June 9 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City
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‘BLKS’ Theater Review: When Women Aren’t Afraid to Show Their Muscle
Aziza Barnes’s comedy benefits from Robert O’Hara’s broad-strokes direction and two inspired actors
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‘Passage’ Theater Review: Provocative Drama Asks If the Cultural Divide Can Ever Be Bridged
Christopher Chen’s provocative new play shows what happens to good people on both sides of a geopolitical divide
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‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ Theater Review: Cillian Murphy Takes Flight
Enda Walsh adapts Max Porter’s novel into a nightmare of a play that exhausts, but in a fascinating way
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Tony Awards 2019: We Predict the Nominees, From ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ to ‘Tootsie’
Expect a lot of love for Daniel Fish’s radical new revival of “Oklahoma!”
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‘Beetlejuice’ Broadway Review: Tim Burton’s Ghosts Turn Scarily Uncomic in Musical Misfire
Alex Brightman plays Michael Keaton’s character from the 1988 big-screen comedy
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‘Ink’ Broadway Review: Rupert Murdoch Gets Hit With a Puff Piece
James Graham’s play treats the mogul’s revamp of tabloid journalism like a Broadway musical, and not a very serious one
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‘Tootsie’ Broadway Review: Santino Fontana Can’t Fill Dustin Hoffman’s Heels in New Musical
In composer David Yazbek’s musical version of the 1982 Oscar winner, cross-dressing heroine Dorothy Michaels doesn’t learn a thing
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‘All My Sons’ Broadway Review: Annette Bening and Tracy Letts Face the Awful Truth
The two actors deliver powerful performances in an otherwise unfocused revival of Arthur Miller’s play
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‘The Pain of My Belligerence’ Theater Review: Young Woman on the Verge of Getting Fired
Maybe the New Yorker is part of Halley Feiffer’s world. It’s definitely not something her character reads, much less writes for
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‘Gary’ Broadway Review: Nathan Lane Cleans Up a Big, Bloody and Inspired Mess
The actor scores in Taylor Mac’s demented new comedy, which manages to improve mightily on Shakespeare’s worst play
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‘Hillary and Clinton’ Broadway Review: Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow Play Politics as That Couple
Lucas Hnath’s tragicomedy examines the most unfair marriage on Earth. Or anywhere else, for that matter
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‘Burn This’ Broadway Review: Adam Driver and Keri Russell Fall in Lust
The actors perform a very lively parody of Lanford Wilson’s play about a woman who chooses the wrong Neanderthal
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‘Socrates’ Theater Review: Michael Stuhlbarg Teaches Us Everything
The actor rakes democracy over the coals of time in Tim Blake Nelson’s great new play
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‘Norma Jeane Baker of Troy’ Theater Review: Ben Whishaw and Renee Fleming Rebury Marilyn Monroe
Anne Carson’s opaque new play with music performs the unique trick of mangling both Euripides and Monroe
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‘The Cradle Will Rock’ Theater Review: The Union Organizer Fumbles It Again
John Doyle takes the “go green” approach to Marc Blitzstein’s quasi-classic
