Theater
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‘A Doll’s House’ Broadway Review: Jessica Chastain Plays Ibsen’s Nora Sitting Down
Jamie Lloyd’s staging of the classic takes minimalism to the extreme
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‘Dark Disabled Stories’ Off Broadway Review: How Using a Walker Can Totally Ruin Your Grindr Date
Ryan J. Haddad’s play explores the challenges of living with a physical disability
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‘Misty’ Off Broadway Review: Arinzé Kene Grapples With Black Violence, Gentrification and Balloons
The British writer-performer’s meta approach to his material reflects the challenges for young Black creators
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Chaim Topol, Israeli Actor and ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Star, Dies at 87
Topol also starred in “Flash Gordon” and “For Your Eyes Only,” among his many credits
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‘The Trees’ Off Broadway Review: The Title Rhymes With Twee
Trees aren’t the only things that don’t move in Agnes Borsinky’s new play
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‘Love’ Off Broadway Review: A Heart-Tugging Peek Inside a Homeless Shelter in All Its Humanity
Alexander Zeldin’s intimate one-act drama arrives Off Broadway after an acclaimed run in the U.K.
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‘The Best We Could’ Off Broadway Review: Aya Cash Discovers Her Dad’s a Toxic Male
Emily Feldman’s promising but flawed drama is a bait-and-switch look at blinkered boomer narcissism
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Casey Likes Joins ‘Back to the Future: The Musical’ as Marty McFly
Likes joins a cast that already includes Roger Bart and Hugh Coles
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‘Stranger Things’ Stage Adaptation Set for London’s West End
“Stranger Things: The First Shadow” will premiere in 2023 as an origin story set in the 1950s
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‘Public Obscenities’ Off Broadway Review: A Stunning Snapshot of India Through a Gay Ph.D. Student’s Lens
Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s intimate and revelatory new drama explores many facets of society by showing, not telling
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‘The Seagull/Woodstock, NY’ Off Broadway Review: Parker Posey Steals the Spotlight
Thomas Bradshaw’s very funny update transforms the Chekhov classic into a send-up of bed, Broadway and beyond
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‘Letters From Max’ Off Broadway Review: Death Becomes Them
Sarah Ruhl adapts an epistolary book into a solemn stage exercise in endurance, grief and self-congratulation
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‘Elyria’ Off Broadway Review: The Real Housewives of Suburban Cleveland Wear Saris
Deepa Purohit’s melodrama unfolds like a Douglas Sirk movie by way of the Indian diaspora
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‘Black Odyssey’ Off Broadway Review: Ulysses Now Travels Home to Harlem
Marcus Gardley’s exhilarating new play is as much a send-up as an update of Homer
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‘A Bright New Boise’ Off Broadway Review: Hobby Lobby May Be Even Worse Than You Imagined
An early play from Samuel D. Hunter has echoes of his new movie, “The Whale”
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