Theater
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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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‘Ohio State Murders’ Broadway Review: Audra McDonald Offers a Study in Controlled Rage
Playwright Adrienne Kennedy makes a powerful, very belated Broadway debut
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‘The Far Country’ Off Broadway Review: Lloyd Suh’s Play Explores the Horrors of the Other Ellis Island
Chinese immigrants faced prisonlike conditions and intense interrogations at San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island
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‘Your Own Personal Exegesis’ Off Broadway Review: This Passion Play Is Really Passionate
Organized religion takes a hit in Julia May Jonas’ sly, new comedy
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‘A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical’ Review: A Bio-Musical That Tries So Hard, So Hard, So Hard
Will Swenson drops his voice to sub-gravel and dons a Cher tour’s worth of sequins to play the pop-rock legend














