Theater
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‘Gruesome Playground Injuries’ Off Broadway Review: Nicholas Braun and Kara Young Hurt Until It Feels Good
The “Succession” star and the two-time Tony winner really come alive when they share each other’s pain
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‘Two Strangers’ Broadway Review: They Sing Together, They Dance Together, They Don’t Belong Together
A new rom-com musical begins promisingly but loses its way somewhere between JFK Airport and midtown Manhattan
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‘This World of Tomorrow’ Off Broadway Review: Tom Hanks Makes ’em Like They Used To
The movie star leads a play he co-wrote with James Grossman: a time-travel fantasy that’s real Frank Capra corn
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‘Meet the Cartozians’ Off Broadway Review: Only the Kardashians Should Miss This Terrific New Comedy
Playwright Talene Monahon unearths a forgotten Armenian-American story, giving it a wonderful modern spin
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‘Chess’ Broadway Review: It’s the Other ABBA Musical, the One That Never Works
The songs by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus return, strung together by a new, confusing book
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‘Oedipus’ Broadway Review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville Make the Same Old Mistakes
A prestige theatrical event from London turns out to be more parody than tragedy
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‘Kyoto’ Off Broadway Review: Global Warming Produces a Dramatic Deep Frost
Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin direct a clunker about climate
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‘Little Bear Ridge Road’ Broadway Review: Laurie Metcalf Is Our Greatest Curmudgeon Who Delights
Samuel D. Hunter’s new play enthralls with its wise-cracking dialogue, but lags when it turns serious
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‘Liberation’ Broadway Review: Women in Search of Answers Gather for the Year’s Best Play
It was great Off Broadway. Now Bess Wohl’s play comes to Broadway where it continues to ask: What the hell went wrong?
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‘Romy & Michele: The Musical’ Off Broadway Review: Laura Bell Bundy and Kara Lindsay Are Beautiful, Very Funny Losers
The high school reunion movie starring Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow has been retooled as a goofy stage musical with colorful bubblegum tunes
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Broadway Musicians Land Tentative 3-Year Deal, Averting Strike
The Broadway League agreement offers wage and health benefit increases — and comes five days after the stage actors and managers struck a similar deal of their own
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Broadway Stage Actors and Managers Strike Narrowly Avoided With Tentative Labor Agreement
Actors’ Equity Association and the Broadway League struck a three-year deal after an all-night negotiation session
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Ben Platt Sets 10-Show Residency at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre
Following in the footsteps of his 2024 Broadway residency, each night Dec. 12-21 will feature special musical guests
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‘Ragtime’ Broadway Review: A Revival Staged as if Directed by Spielberg
The numbing up of popular musicals continues with the stage adaptation of E. L. Doctorow’s novel about racism in America
