Theater
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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
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‘Oh Happy Day!’ Off Broadway Review: Noah’s Ark, but With a Gay Sex Worker and No Animals
Jordan E. Cooper follows his outrageous “Ain’t No Mo’” with an equally audacious comedy
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‘Let’s Love!’ Off Broadway Review: Ethan Cohen’s Filthy Sex Comedy in 3 Parts
The co-maker of “Fargo” and “No Country for Old Men” thinks dating is even worse than you think
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‘Caroline’ Off Broadway Review: Chloë Grace Moretz Delivers as a Single Mom in Crisis
The one-time child star graduates splendidly to troubled parenthood in a surprise hit play by Preston Max Allen
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‘Punch’ Broadway Review: A True Story of Manslaughter Makes a Mawkish Transfer to the Stage
The grizzly facts are there from Jacob Dunne’s bestseller “Right From Wrong,” but James Graham’s play turns those details into theatrical mush
