Theater
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Broadway’s ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Recasts Lead Role After Misconduct Investigation
James Snyder, the last actor to star as Harry, was fired in January
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‘Confederates’ Off Broadway Review: Dominique Morisseau Suggests College Is the New Plantation
Playwright delivers a lecture on racism in record time
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Tony Awards Return to CBS and Paramount+ in June for First Live Coast-to-Coast Broadcast
The 75th annual ceremony will mark the best of Broadway in a dual broadcast-streaming format
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‘The Chinese Lady’ Off Broadway Review: A Forgotten Immigrant in 19th-Century America Takes Center Stage
Lloyd Suh’s play puts a spotlight on a most unusual real-life figure
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Taron Egerton Faints on Stage During First Night Performance of London Play ‘Cock’
The actor copped to a “bruised ego but I’m fine” after his understudy completed the performance Saturday
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‘On Sugarland’ Off Broadway Review: Aleshea Harris’ Sweeping Look at Black Life Amid Endless Wars
Harris nods to Tennessee Williams in her look at life in a Southern cul-de-sac near an Army base
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‘English’ Off Broadway Review: Sanaz Toossi’s Play Gets Lost in Translation
Playwright explores the challenges of teaching English to Farsi speakers in Iran
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‘Black No More’ Off Broadway Review: A New Musical Declaws a Classic Book
John Ridley, Tariq Trotter, Scott Elliott and Bill T. Jones wrestle with George S. Schuyler’s difficult legacy
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‘Wolf Play’ Off Broadway Review: An Internet-Era Custody Battle Over an Adopted Boy
Hansol Jung’s new play examines the growing phenomenon of adoption by Yahoo!
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‘The Music Man’ Broadway Review: Hugh Jackman Leads the Big Parade
But Sutton Foster seems ill at ease in this lush, dance-heavy revival
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‘Tambo & Bones’ Off Broadway Review: The Minstrel Show’s Past, Present and Future
Dave Harris’ new show-concert-lecture imagines the world without the gaze of white people
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‘Prayer for the French Republic’ Off Broadway Review: A Tour de Force Look at a Jewish Family in Paris
Joshua Harmon’s new play skewers the land of the perfect croissant
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‘MJ’ Broadway Review: Michael Jackson Musical Is Less Thriller Than Dangerous
There are villains in Lynn Nottage’s new musical “MJ,” however, they are not Michael Jackson
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‘Intimate Apparel’ Off Broadway Review: Lynn Nottage’s Seamstress Now Sings
Ricky Ian Gordon improves a modern classic with his extraordinary operatic score
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‘Shhhh’ Off Broadway Review: Clare Barron’s Kinky, Envelope-Pushing Drama
Playwright, actress and director explores extremes that have nothing to do with intimacy