Theater
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White Actor Cast as Martin Luther King Jr. Outrages ‘Mountaintop’ Playwright
Writer Katori Hall calls the casting choice in a recent Ohio production “a self-serving and disrespectful directing exercise”
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‘Dada Woof Papa Hot’ Theater Review: John Benjamin Hickey Grapples With New Kind of Marriage
Peter Parnell has a real ear for mixing up the new gay (family values) with the old gay (great, uninhibited sex), and having his lead character torn between the two
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‘Lost Girls’ Theater Review: Piper Perabo Is Mad as Hell at Men and Everybody Else
The men in John Pollono’s new play are so verbally battered by women they could qualify for FEMA
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‘Allegiance’ Broadway Review: George Takei Looks Back at World War II
Rather than focusing on the injustices suffered by Japanese Americans, this new musical finds its voice in the characters’ varied responses to discrimination
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‘On Your Feet!’ Broadway Review: Emilio and Gloria Estefan Pay Tribute to Their Own Success
As self-promoting hagiographies go, this new jukebox musical makes “Trump: The Art of the Deal” look modest
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‘King Charles III’ Broadway Review: Princess Di’s a Ghost and Kate’s a Real Witch
Mike Bartlett’s new play about the royal family has a smarmy appeal for theatergoers who’ve never read People magazine
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‘Therese Raquin’ Broadway Review: Keira Knightley Gets Caught Between Tragedy and Grand Guignol in Debut
Not everything goes wrong. As Therese’s lover, Matt Ryan is appropriately studly and manages to produce few laughs despite being stuck with clunky lines
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Broadway PR Vet Rick Miramontez Joins DKC to Form National Theater Division
New DKC/O&M unit will represent Broadway and live nationwide
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‘Sylvia’ Broadway Review: Matthew Broderick Must Choose Between Smart Wife or Sexy Talking Pooch
Broderick talks to his dog and his dog talks back to him in revival of 1995 comedy that first starred Sarah Jessica Parker
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NFL Star Eddie George to Tackle Broadway Debut in ‘Chicago’
The Heisman Trophy winner will play Billy Flynn for seven weeks starting in January
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‘The Humans’ Theater Review: Send in the Monsters. Don’t Bother They’re Here
Money doesn’t sound as scary as zombies, but the suspense in Stephen Karam’s new play builds right up to the moment that the lights go out
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‘Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King’ Theater Review: ‘Daily Show’ Star Skips Snark in Benign Comedy
Neither raunchy nor political, this one-man show is the Indian-American Muslim’s answer to Billy Crystal’s “700 Sundays”
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‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ to Focus on Wizard’s Son Albus, Struggle Over Family Legacy
JK Rowling reveals new plot details for stage play due to hit London in summer 2016
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‘Dames at Sea’ Broadway Review: A Spoof of Classic Hollywood Musicals That’s More Numbing Than Fun
Director-choreographer Randy Skinner struggles to inject life into his revival of a nearly 50-year-old musical oddity
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NeNe Leakes to Return to Broadway in ‘Chicago’
“Real Housewives of Atlanta” star previously appeared in stage production of “Cinderella”
