Theater
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‘Two Strangers’ Broadway Review: They Sing Together, They Dance Together, They Don’t Belong Together
A new rom-com musical begins promisingly but loses its way somewhere between JFK Airport and midtown Manhattan
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‘This World of Tomorrow’ Off Broadway Review: Tom Hanks Makes ’em Like They Used To
The movie star leads a play he co-wrote with James Grossman: a time-travel fantasy that’s real Frank Capra corn
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‘Meet the Cartozians’ Off Broadway Review: Only the Kardashians Should Miss This Terrific New Comedy
Playwright Talene Monahon unearths a forgotten Armenian-American story, giving it a wonderful modern spin
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‘Chess’ Broadway Review: It’s the Other ABBA Musical, the One That Never Works
The songs by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus return, strung together by a new, confusing book
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‘The Seat of Our Pants’ Off Broadway Review: Radical Revision of ‘Skin of Our Teeth’ Is the Year’s Best New Musical
Ethan Lipton is that rare triple threat (book writer, lyricist and composer) who really delivers
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‘Oedipus’ Broadway Review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville Make the Same Old Mistakes
A prestige theatrical event from London turns out to be more parody than tragedy
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‘The Baker’s Wife’ Off Broadway Review: Ariana DeBose and Scott Bakula Headline the Year’s Best Musical Revival
This long-neglected musical by Joseph Stein and Stephen Schwartz deserves an immediate transfer uptown
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‘The Queen of Versailles’ Broadway Review: Kristin Chenoweth and Stephen Schwartz Reunite for a MAGA Musical Nightmare
Florida’s billionaire class gets the musical it deserves with socialite Jackie Siegel
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‘44: The Musical’ Off Broadway Review: Obama Sings and Dances – but He’s Married to Oprah?
A few awfully funny things happen on his way to the White House
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‘Kyoto’ Off Broadway Review: Global Warming Produces a Dramatic Deep Frost
Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin direct a clunker about climate
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‘Messy White Gays’ Off Broadway Review: The Boys in the Band Develop a ‘Rope’ Fetish
Alfred Hitchcock and Mart Crowley compete for laughs in Drew Droege’s kinky new murder comedy
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‘Little Bear Ridge Road’ Broadway Review: Laurie Metcalf Is Our Greatest Curmudgeon Who Delights
Samuel D. Hunter’s new play enthralls with its wise-cracking dialogue, but lags when it turns serious
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‘Liberation’ Broadway Review: Women in Search of Answers Gather for the Year’s Best Play
It was great Off Broadway. Now Bess Wohl’s play comes to Broadway where it continues to ask: What the hell went wrong?
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‘Romy & Michele: The Musical’ Off Broadway Review: Laura Bell Bundy and Kara Lindsay Are Beautiful, Very Funny Losers
The high school reunion movie starring Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow has been retooled as a goofy stage musical with colorful bubblegum tunes
