Theater
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‘A Doll’s House’ Broadway Review: Jessica Chastain Plays Ibsen’s Nora Sitting Down
Jamie Lloyd’s staging of the classic takes minimalism to the extreme
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‘Dark Disabled Stories’ Off Broadway Review: How Using a Walker Can Totally Ruin Your Grindr Date
Ryan J. Haddad’s play explores the challenges of living with a physical disability
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‘Misty’ Off Broadway Review: Arinzé Kene Grapples With Black Violence, Gentrification and Balloons
The British writer-performer’s meta approach to his material reflects the challenges for young Black creators
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‘The Trees’ Off Broadway Review: The Title Rhymes With Twee
Trees aren’t the only things that don’t move in Agnes Borsinky’s new play
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‘Love’ Off Broadway Review: A Heart-Tugging Peek Inside a Homeless Shelter in All Its Humanity
Alexander Zeldin’s intimate one-act drama arrives Off Broadway after an acclaimed run in the U.K.
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‘The Best We Could’ Off Broadway Review: Aya Cash Discovers Her Dad’s a Toxic Male
Emily Feldman’s promising but flawed drama is a bait-and-switch look at blinkered boomer narcissism
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‘Public Obscenities’ Off Broadway Review: A Stunning Snapshot of India Through a Gay Ph.D. Student’s Lens
Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s intimate and revelatory new drama explores many facets of society by showing, not telling
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‘Letters From Max’ Off Broadway Review: Death Becomes Them
Sarah Ruhl adapts an epistolary book into a solemn stage exercise in endurance, grief and self-congratulation
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‘Elyria’ Off Broadway Review: The Real Housewives of Suburban Cleveland Wear Saris
Deepa Purohit’s melodrama unfolds like a Douglas Sirk movie by way of the Indian diaspora
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‘Black Odyssey’ Off Broadway Review: Ulysses Now Travels Home to Harlem
Marcus Gardley’s exhilarating new play is as much a send-up as an update of Homer
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‘A Bright New Boise’ Off Broadway Review: Hobby Lobby May Be Even Worse Than You Imagined
An early play from Samuel D. Hunter has echoes of his new movie, “The Whale”
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‘The Wanderers’ Off Broadway Review: A Woody Allen-Tinged Character Pursues Katie Holmes on the Internet
Anna Ziegler’s play recalls the best of a banished filmmaker while plunging us even deeper into old Brooklyn
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‘Cornelia Street’ Off Broadway Review: Norbert Leo Butz Slices and Dices Like a Pro
Mark Eitzel’s score is also Michelin-worthy, but Simon Stephens’s book keeps this musical about a famous Village cafe off the front burner
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‘Pictures From Home’ Broadway Review: Nathan Lane Doesn’t Sing but Acts Up a Storm
Based on Larry Sultan’s acclaimed photo memoir, Sharr White’s new play delivers laughs amid the schmaltz
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‘Lucy’ Off Broadway Review: When Having It All Turns Into a Childcare Nightmare
Erica Schmidt’s thriller puts a few new spins on moms, nannies and the kids who are their victims
