Theater
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‘Hadestown’ Star Patrick Page to Take His Final Bow as Hades in December (Exclusive)
The acting vet talks to TheWrap about why he’s leaving the Tony-winning show, that controversial Lillias White snafu and showing Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds the ropes in “Spirited”
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‘A Man of No Importance’ Off Broadway Review: Jim Parsons Leads a Bloodless Musical Revival
Sheldon sings, sort of, in a modest revival of the Stephen Flaherty-Lynn Ahrens musical
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‘Walking With Ghosts’ Broadway Review: Gabriel Byrne Wades Through the Usual Memoir Horror Stories
The actor’s formidable career takes a distant second place to tales of abuse
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‘Straight Line Crazy’ Off Broadway Review: Ralph Fiennes Tries to Bulldoze Over Robert Moses
But his performance and a few fictional characters bring a wrecking ball to David Hare’s new play
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‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Off Broadway Review: Robert O’Hara Rethinks a Classic to Brilliant Effect
The director also delivers the best ensemble performing on the New York stage right now
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‘Montag’ Off Broadway Review: An Onstage Thriller About 2 Women in a State of Siege
Kate Tarker’s Off Broadway drama gets a visually stunning production at Soho Rep
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‘Topdog/Underdog’ Broadway Review: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Corey Hawkins Create Sparks
Kenny Leon directs an electric revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 2001 classic
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‘The Piano Lesson’ Broadway Review: John David Washington Gives a Master Class in Acting
Samuel L. Jackson, Ray Fisher and Danielle Brooks co-star in the first Broadway revival of this August Wilson classic
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‘Death of a Salesman’ Broadway Review: Wendell Pierce and Sharon D. Clarke Lead a Revelatory Revival
Director Miranda Cromwell finds new depths in Willy Loman’s tragic story
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‘1776’ Broadway Review: Even Male Drag Can’t Rescue This Musical Clunker
It’s a show about the American Revolution that makes you root for the British
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‘I’m Revolting’ Off Broadway Review: Hell Is Other People in a Hospital Waiting Room
Playwright Gracie Gardner’s drama shows promise but mostly just kills time
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‘Funny Girl’ Broadway Review: Lea Michele Brings the Diva But Not the Laughs
The “Glee” star returns to the theater in that Barbra Streisand role
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‘Leopoldstadt’ Broadway Review: Tom Stoppard Remembers the Holocaust in Vivid Detail
With a cast of 38 actors, the playwright covers over half a century of anti-Semitism in Old Vienna
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‘Baldwin & Buckley at Cambridge’ Off Broadway Review: The Great Debate Loses Some of Its Bite
James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. continue to argue about dreams and race in America
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‘Weightless’ Off Broadway Review: The Kilbanes Give 2 Mythic Greek Sisters an Indie-Rock Lift
The Bay Area duo Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses have crafted one of the best new musicals in recent memory














