Theater
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‘Head Over Heels’ Broadway Review: The Go-Go’s Travel Back to the 17th Century
In the time-honored tradition of “Mamma Mia!,” the hit songs have nothing to do with the tale being told
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‘This Ain’t No Disco’ Theater Review: Is Studio 54 Ready for Another 15 Minutes of Fame?
Steve Rubell and someone who looks and acts a lot like Andy Warhol face off in an evil-twin contest, from the makers of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”
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‘Straight White Men’ Broadway Review: Typecasting Armie Hammer and Josh Charles
In their Broadway debuts, the actors play male types we’ve seen them embody in far better movies and TV shows
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‘Smokey Joe’s Cafe’ Theater Review: Rockin’ With Leiber and Stoller All Over Again
The Off Broadway revue presents dozens of tunes through preserved-in-amber-tinted glasses
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Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, James Corden and Ian McKellen Join ‘Cats’ Musical Movie
JHud is looking for more big-screen Memories in Tom Hooper’s adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beloved stage hit
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‘The Damned’ Theater Review: Ivo van Hove Wrestles Luchino Visconti and Loses
A classic film about Nazis has been turned into a Lillian Hellman melodrama, one that is best titled “The Big Foxes”
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The Boss Meets Netflix: ‘Springsteen on Broadway’ Special to Launch in December
Event to debut on streaming service on final night of Bruce Springsteen’s 236-show run
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‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’ Stage Musical in the Works
The 2005 movie starred Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrara, Blake Lively and Alexis Bledel
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‘Fire in Dreamland’ Theater Review: Should Jeff Sessions Be Targeting Dutch Immigrants?
Under its forced whimsy, Rinne Groff’s new play offers odd messages about immigrants and abortion
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‘Trainspotting’ Theater Review: The Needles Are Real, the Other Stuff Is Not
Harry Gibson’s adaptation makes for extraordinary immersive theater under Adam Spreadbury-Maher’s direction
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A ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Review: an Underwhelming Adaptation Despite Cute Side Gags
The Bard’s eloquent poetry and dramatic complexity is distilled into contemporary lingo
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‘Mary Page Marlowe’ Theater Review: Tatiana Maslany Stands Out in Tracy Letts’ Jumbled New Drama
The playwright uses the fractured chronology of David Hare’s “Plenty” to ill effect
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How 5 Parkland Shooting Survivors Channeled Grief Into ‘Spring Awakening’ Production
“The actual show itself … does open wounds you are trying to heal,” high schooler Sawyer Garrity says
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‘On a Clear Day You Can See Forever’ Theater Review: Even Barbra Streisand Couldn’t Make This Musical Work
The latest revival showcases Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner’s great score but doesn’t solve the problems of Lerner’s flawed book
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‘Girls & Boys’ Theater Review: Carey Mulligan Says the Kids Aren’t All Right
Dennis Kelly’s play makes it clear who deserves all the blame, the women or the men