Theater
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‘Just in Time’ Broadway Review: Jonathan Groff Is Great! But Where’s Bobby Darin?
The Tony-winning star of “Merrily We Roll Along” rarely meets the playboy crooner of “Mack the Knife”
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Brian Cox Shades $1,000 Ticket Price to See Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘Othello’: ‘Excuse Me, That’s Wrong’
“There’s amazing shows and hits but there’s too much money stuff involved in American theatre,” the “Emmy-winning actor says
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‘Pirates!’ Broadway Review: David Hyde Pierce Steals a Show That’s Only Half Ship-Shape
A radically retooled “Pirates of Penzance” makes a rocky voyage to New Orleans
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Harvey Fierstein to Receive Special Lifetime Achievement Award at 2025 Tonys
Cynthia Erivo hosts the 78th Tony Awards June 8 on CBS and Paramount+
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‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Broadway Review: Netflix Mashes Up With ‘Grease’ and Stephen King
Stephen Daldry’s flashy direction and Kate Trefry’s comic adaptation makes for an oddball jukebox musical
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‘Floyd Collins’ Broadway Review: Jeremy Jordan Soars While His Character Is Trapped
His great performance galvanizes a high-profile revival that further enhances the brilliance of composer Adam Guettel
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‘John Proctor Is the Villain’ Broadway Review: Sadie Sink Deconstructs ‘The Crucible’
The “Stranger Things” star returns to the stage in yet another play about white male toxicity
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‘Smash’ Broadway Review: Taking a Sharp Pin to the Marilyn Monroe Balloon
To its credit, the new stage musical, based on the NBC TV series, is more send-up than celebration of the sex symbol
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‘Old Friends’ Broadway Review: Do We Need Another Stephen Sondheim Revue?
This tired songfest does nothing to enhance the master composer’s reputation
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‘Becoming Eve’ Off Broadway Review: God Herself Would Have to Applaud Richard Schiff
The Emmy-winning “West Wing” actor stars in a great new play about three very different rabbis
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‘Boop!’ Broadway Review: First Barbie, Now Betty Gets Dragged Into the 21 Century
It’s “boop-oop-a-doop” for a musical that needs a good spritz of Pooph
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‘The Last Five Years’ Broadway Review: Nick Jonas & Adrienne Warren Make Love in Reverse
The two stars have chemistry, but get crossed-up in a weak production that is both minimal and messy
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Elton John Says ‘Tammy Faye’ Musical Flopped Because It Was ‘Too Political’ for Broadway
“They don’t really get irony,” the music legend laments of American audiences
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‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Broadway Review: George Clooney Takes on McCarthy, Then Musk
In a spectacular Broadway debut as actor and writer, the star scores major points for America’s left
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‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Broadway Review: Bob Odenkirk Dazzles, Kieran Culkin Surprises in Uneven Revival
The two stars, joined by Bill Burr and Michael McKean, take very difference approaches to David Mamet’s classic