Theater
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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
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‘Without You’ Off Broadway Review: Anthony Rapp Looks Back on ‘Rent’ and Loss
The “Star Trek: Discovery” star offers a heartfelt but thin musical memoir
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‘Small Talk’ Off Broadway Review: Colin Quinn Serves Another Round of Familiar Gripes
The comic’s latest monologue returns to the same well of complaints about how online culture is ruining America
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10 Worst New York Theater Productions of 2022 (Photos)
TheWrap critic Robert Hofler picks the year’s biggest misfires on stage, from “Almost Famous” to “MJ: The Musical”
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The 10 Best New York Theater Productions of 2022 (Photos)
The real news this year was all the wonderful new plays and musicals
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‘The Collaboration’ Broadway Review: Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope Are Warhol and Basquiat in Name Only
The real story of these two artists is far more interesting than what playwright Anthony McCarten concocts
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‘Between Riverside and Crazy’ Review: Common Makes a Subdued Broadway Debut as Stephen McKinley Henderson Shines
The veteran character actor delivers a truly epic lead performance in Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Pulitzer-winning drama
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‘Great Expectations’ Off Broadway Review: Eddie Izzard Is a Pip – and All the Other Characters, Too
The actor-comedian proves a gifted storyteller in a Dickens adaptation by her brother, Mark Izzard
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‘Stranger Things’ Star Gaten Matarazzo and Jordan Fisher Join Josh Groban in Broadway Revival of ‘Sweeney Todd’
Groban and Annaleigh Ashford were previously announced as stars of the Broadway show
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‘Titanique’ Off Broadway Review: A Hilarious Jukebox Musical for Those Who Detest Them
The real object of mockery here is not “Titanic” but Broadway in 2022
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‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Off Broadway Review: Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe Try to Resuscitate a Sondheim Flop
Director Maria Friedman brings an actorly touch to Stephen Sondheim’s problematic 1981 musical, to mostly good effect
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‘Some Like It Hot’ Broadway Review: Billy Wilder’s Movie Classic Gets a Lukewarm Musical Makeover
Songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman score offers witty lyrics and tunes that are peppy, repetitive and loud
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