Theater
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Jimmy Buffett Tells Lin-Manuel Miranda He Wants to Play King George in ‘Hamilton’ (Video)
“I can get some high-heel boots and then there we go,” composer of new Broadway musical “Escape to Margaritaville” says
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‘Escape to Margaritaville’ Broadway Review: Jimmy Buffett Kicks Back a Few Too Many
A new musical takes its cue from Buffett’s odes to gluttony “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and “Why Don’t We Get Drunk (and Screw)?”
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How a Blue-Collar Woman Taught Me to Stand Up to Hollywood Bullies and Harassers (Guest Blog)
“Maybe today an actor would think twice before grabbing his director’s breasts,” filmmaker Courtney Balaker writes
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‘Admissions’ Theater Review: Joshua Harmon’s Comedy Dissects One Family’s Yale-or-Bust Insanity
In Harmon’s insightful new comedy, it’s the parents who may never recover from their child’s rejection
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Judy Garland’s Daughter Lorna Luft Diagnosed With Brain Tumor After Backstage Collapse
Singer’s husband became concerned after noticing that she was forgetting lyrics
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‘Good for Otto’ Theater Review: Ed Harris and Amy Madigan Are Stranded in Podunkville
Various troubled souls stumbled into a mental health clinic in David Rabe’s purely cornball new drama
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Original ‘Frozen’ Cast Wants to Reunite for Live Show at Hollywood Bowl Next Year
Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad and others say they’re game to re-create their onscreen roles in new Broadway version
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‘The Low Road’ Theater Review: Bruce Norris Aims High to Bring Down the Rich
The playwright delivers an uproarious indictment of power, privilege and totally deregulated capitalism
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Tony-Winning Actress Ruthie Ann Miles Injured in Car Crash That Killed Her 4-Year-Old Daughter
One other child was killed when a driver ran a red light
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‘Queens’ Theater Review: A Harrowing Look at Immigrant Women Trapped in America
In Martyna Majok’s new play, poor women from around the world encounter a war zone in a shared basement living space in Queens, N.Y.
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‘Amy and the Orphans’ Theater Review: ‘American Horror Story’ Star Jamie Brewer Steals the Spotlight
Lindsey Ferrentino’s new play recalls ’60s-era Neil Simon comedies — but she has a dramatic bomb up her sleeve
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‘The Amateurs’ Theater Review: Jordan Harrison’s New Comedy Upends Conventions
The “Marjorie Prime” playwright explodes the fourth wall in a wild, new look back at Noah and the ark
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‘An Ordinary Muslim’ Theater Review: Hammaad Chaudry Is No Ordinary Playwright
Chaudry’s riveting portrait of a Pakistani-Brit vividly recalls some of the angry young men of 1950s British theater: He’s railing against everything and everyone, including himself
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‘Frozen’ Broadway Musical Drops Elsa’s New Song ‘Monster’ (Video)
Song is performed by Caissie Levy and written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
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David Mamet Tackles Harvey Weinstein and ‘Ungovernable Genie of Sexuality’ in New Play
“There is great difficulty when you are switching modes, which we seem to be doing now,” right-leaning author says of his new project