Theater
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How Theater Is Tackling Current Events, From Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton to RBG (Guest Blog)
“The thrill of a current-events play is that it can distill those events into something much more thoughtful and engrossing than mere news,” playwright Doug McGrath says
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Nickelodeon Sets ‘SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage!’ TV Special for December
Members of original Broadway company will reunite to film show in front of a live theater audience
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‘The Lightning Thief’ Broadway Review: Half-God, Half Mortal Percy Jackson Makes the Leap to Stage Musical
Rick Riordan’s series of young-adult novels is now a Broadway musical, fit for the kids if not the gods
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‘The Rose Tattoo’ Broadway Review: Marisa Tomei Goes Full Fellini
The actress stirs up a storm, kicking Tennessee Williams’s little comedy right off the Gulf Coast
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‘Soft Power’ Theater Review: Hillary Clinton Takes a Chinese Lover in David Henry Hwang’s New Musical
David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori turn “The King and I” upside down and nothing but political nonsense dribbles out
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‘Linda Vista’ Broadway Review: Tracy Letts Delivers a Great TV Pilot Before Getting Nasty
Men can be jerks, and Ian Banford plays one of the biggest in Lett’s new play, which is half sitcom, half dirge
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‘The Wrong Man’ Theater Review: Joshua Henry Is Falsely Accused but to the Right Music
Songwriter Ross Golan makes a major musical-theater debut. What he needs is a new book writer for his sophomore effort
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‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’ Theater Review: It’s Donald Trump v. Pat Buchanan
Will Arbery exposes a wild Roman Catholic cult in his bizarre and very messy new play
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‘Slave Play’ Broadway Review: Jeremy O Harris’ Bold but Uneven Satire About Race Relations
The young playwright’s professional debut is a giant trigger warning in three acts
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‘Almost Famous’ Hits the Stage, But How True Is the New Musical to the Movie?
Cameron Crowe’s semiautobiographical rock ‘n’ roll story is a full-fledged musical on its way to Broadway, and we ask — and answer — a few burning questions
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‘The New Englanders’ Theater Review: A Drama About 2 Gay Dads and Their Biracial Daughter
Jeff Augustin’s smart but underwritten play imagines a different kind of family
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‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ Broadway Review: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Improv Rap Show Hits the Great White Way
But will Miranda be a guest performer at your show?
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‘The Great Society’ Broadway Review: Brian Cox Tackles LBJ in Sequel to ‘All the Way’
Robert Schenkkan’s new historical drama covers the last three years of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency
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Read the Unpublished Cameron Crowe Story That Inspired ‘Almost Famous’
In 1996, before writing the Oscar-winning screenplay, Crowe wrote a magazine article about himself, his mother and rock ‘n’ roll — and as the “Almost Famous” musical is about to open, here is that story for the first time
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‘Antigone’ Theater Review: East Meets West in Japanese Company’s Noh-Inspired Tragedy
A visually spectacular interpretation of Sophocles’ classic washes up at Park Avenue Armory
