Theater
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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
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‘Carmen Jones’ Theater Review: Anika Noni Rose Goes from Dreamgirl to Total Femme Fatale
Georges Bizet purists may squawk, but Oscar Hammerstein II’s novel reworking of the opera warhorse is more than ready for a big Broadway revival
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‘Cyprus Avenue’ Theater Review: Stephen Rea Goes for Overkill
David Ireland’s play explores the psyche of a Belfast bigot
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‘Log Cabin’ Theater Review: Jesse Tyler Ferguson Fathers a Baby Against All Odds
Jordan Harrison’s comedy looks at the new war of words in the LGBT dictionary
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‘Billy Elliot’ Hungarian Production Canceled After Paper Says Show ‘Could Turn Children Gay’
Musical based on 2000 British film of the same name
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‘Skintight’ Theater Review: Idina Menzel Masterfully Proves Ageism Is a Guy Thing
Joshua Harmon writes another provocative comedy about pampered, affluent white people. They’re all just one skin peel away from happiness
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‘Sugar in Our Wounds’ Theater Review: The Earth Grandmother Steals the Show
Donja R. Love’s new play stars the phenomenal Stephanie Berry, who dwarfs the same-sex love affair at its core
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Michael Jackson Bio-Musical to Moonwalk on Broadway
Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage will write the new play
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‘Othello’ Theater Review: Corey Stoll Makes Iago a Mesmerizing Villain
British actor Chukwudi Iwuji has fine moments in the Public Theater’s exquisite production in Central Park
