Theater
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‘The Lost Boys’ Broadway Review: Or, Why Frank-N-Furter Gets the Last Laugh
It’s big and loud, but this new musical is no “Rocky Horror Show”
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‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ Broadway Review: Debbie Allen’s Direction Injects Real Fire Into August Wilson’s Masterpiece
Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer lead an absolutely terrific ensemble
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‘The Rocky Horror Show’ Broadway Review: A Fun Revival Pushes the Envelope, as Well as Somebody’s Rear-End
Richard O’Brien’s musical may be over 50 years ago, but Sam Pinkleton’s staging manages to deliver at least one major surprise
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‘Beaches’ Broadway Review: Even the Legendary Mike Stoller Can’t Prevent This Flotsam From Washing Ashore
The Bette Midler tearjerker makes a very rocky transition to the musical stage
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‘The Balusters’ Broadway Review: A New Play Covers Almost All the Diversity Bases
David Lindsay-Abaire’s entertaining comedy about a power-hungry HOA looks at diversity in all its orientations and colors, only to discover that something’s missing
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‘Schmigadoon!’ Broadway Review: Lorne Michaels and Cinco Paul Recycle Their Apple TV Show
Minimal effort has been extended to reinvent the musical for the stage
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‘Fallen Angels’ Broadway Review: Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara Do Their Lucy & Ethel Best to Dust Off an Antique
Noel Coward would not recognize his 1925 flop about two married women who consider revisiting past affairs with the same lover
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Andrew Lloyd Webber Reveals He Drank in Secret for Years After Telling People He Was Sober: ‘I Am a Recovering Alcoholic’
The composer tells The Times of London he began seeking help 16 months ago: “It’s the best thing that ever happened to me”
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‘Proof’ Broadway Review: The Obamas Deliver Mixed Results With Their First Theatrical Venture
The former president and first lady’s Higher Ground stage an uneven revival of David Auburn’s play starring Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle
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‘The Fear of 13’ Broadway Review: Adrien Brody Holds Back to Deliver Big as a Convict in Search of Justice
The true story of Nick Yarris comes to the stage in an absorbing production of Lindsey Ferrentino’s new play
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‘The Adding Machine’ Off Broadway Review: Jennifer Tilly and Daphne Rubin-Vega Turn Zeroes Into a Major Comic Plus
Sarita Choudhury (“And Just Like That”) and Michael Cyril Creighton (“Only Murders in the Building”) round out an excellent cast that brings an American rarity to the stage
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Daniel Radcliffe and Darren Criss Have Never Actually Talked About That ‘Harry Potter’ Parody Musical: ‘An Unspoken Thing’
Criss remembers replacing Radcliffe in Broadway’s “How to Succeed,” but their interactions have been “very brief”
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Amanda Seyfried, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Rachel Zegler and More to Star in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Octet’
The movie musical will also mark a “Hamilton” reunion between LMM, Phillipa Soo and Jonathan Groff
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‘Titanique’ Broadway Review: Jim Parsons Jumps Aboard the Sinking-Ship Musical
The “Big Bang Theory” star helps keep a far glitzier version of this “Titanic” parody from capsizing
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‘Death of a Salesman’ Broadway Review: Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf Beg Us to Pay Attention
Joe Mantello directs a surreal and overwrought revival of the Arthur Miller classic
