Theater
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‘Wild Goose Dreams’ Theater Review: When Computers Upstage a North Korean Defector
Hansol Jung’s new play says it’s tough to get personal in a world filled with machines. Her computer chorus, however, tells us something else
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‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ Theater Review: Raul Esparza Sends Up Hitler in the Age of Trump
Even Charlie Chaplin wasn’t this good at mocking Adolf Hitler
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‘Thom Pain (Based on Nothing)’ Theater Review: Michael C Hall Turns Nothingness Into High Art
Will Eno’s one-man play gets a thrilling Off Broadway revival
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‘The New One’ Broadway Review: Mike Birbiglia Now Sleepwalks With a Stroller
The gifted monologist brings his self-deprecating wit to the Great White Way
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‘King Kong’ Broadway Review: Giant Puppet Upstages the Mere Humans
Broadway’s biggest animatronic leading man somehow survives an inept book by John Thorne, who gave us “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”
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‘Eve’s Song’ Theater Review: Are You Woke Enough for Patricia Ione Lloyd’s Dark Comedy?
This ambitious, genre-bending dark comedy gets a boost from some first-rate performances
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‘American Son’ Theater Review: Kerry Washington Brings #BlackLivesMatter Debate to Broadway
Christopher Demos-Brown’s drama confronts a ripped-from-the-headlines story about race and policing
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‘Torch Song’ Theater Review: Harvey Fierstein Passes It to Michael Urie
In the original, Fierstein’s outrageousness got you through the play’s lumpy soap opera moments. Urie, in the revival, works the suds
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‘Good Grief’ Theater Review: Ngozi Anyanwu Looks Back With Love and Hip-Hop
Anyanwu stars in her own memory play about the suburban-raised daughter of Nigerian immigrants reflecting on a lost love
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‘Days of Rage’ Theater Review: This Revolution Won’t Be Televised
Steven Levenson (“Dear Evan Hansen”) sets his new play during the Vietnam War, but leaves his characters stranded in a middle-class limbo
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‘The Waverly Gallery’ Broadway Review: Kenneth Lonergan Remembers a Lost, Eccentric Life
A starry cast — Elaine May, Lucas Hedges, Joan Allen, and Michael Cera — brings an early work from the writer to Broadway
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‘The Ferryman’ Broadway Review: Jez Butterworth and Sam Mendes Unload on the IRA
Big, broad and often busy performances re-create the horror of the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Greg Berlanti, Shawn Levy Team Up to Produce Film Adaptation of Hit Musical ‘Be More Chill’
Sci-fi musical follows a bullied high schooler who tries to improve his social status
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‘Gloria: A Life’ Theater Review: Christine Lahti Channels Gloria Steinem
Emily Mann’s play is equal parts biography, history lesson, TED talk and call to action
