Theater
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‘Black No More’ Off Broadway Review: A New Musical Declaws a Classic Book
John Ridley, Tariq Trotter, Scott Elliott and Bill T. Jones wrestle with George S. Schuyler’s difficult legacy
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‘Wolf Play’ Off Broadway Review: An Internet-Era Custody Battle Over an Adopted Boy
Hansol Jung’s new play examines the growing phenomenon of adoption by Yahoo!
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‘The Music Man’ Broadway Review: Hugh Jackman Leads the Big Parade
But Sutton Foster seems ill at ease in this lush, dance-heavy revival
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‘Tambo & Bones’ Off Broadway Review: The Minstrel Show’s Past, Present and Future
Dave Harris’ new show-concert-lecture imagines the world without the gaze of white people
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‘Prayer for the French Republic’ Off Broadway Review: A Tour de Force Look at a Jewish Family in Paris
Joshua Harmon’s new play skewers the land of the perfect croissant
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‘MJ’ Broadway Review: Michael Jackson Musical Is Less Thriller Than Dangerous
There are villains in Lynn Nottage’s new musical “MJ,” however, they are not Michael Jackson
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‘Intimate Apparel’ Off Broadway Review: Lynn Nottage’s Seamstress Now Sings
Ricky Ian Gordon improves a modern classic with his extraordinary operatic score
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‘Shhhh’ Off Broadway Review: Clare Barron’s Kinky, Envelope-Pushing Drama
Playwright, actress and director explores extremes that have nothing to do with intimacy
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‘Skeleton Crew’ Broadway Review: Phylicia Rashad Wears the Overalls in This Factory Family
The actors rule in this Detroit drama by Dominique Morisseau
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‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Broadway Actor Fired After Misconduct Investigation
James Snyder, who played Harry Potter in the Broadway show, was let go following a complaint from cast member Diane Davis
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‘The Hang’ Off Broadway Review: Taylor Mac Wraps Socrates in Tulle in Blissfully Bizarre Musical
An arresting score puts heady Aesthetics 101 arguments at the center of a New Orleans jazz funeral
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‘Flying Over Sunset’ Broadway Review: A Muddy Musical About Cary Grant’s All-Star Acid Trip
The new musical sings well on LSD, but trips over James Lapine’s pedestrian book
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‘Company’ Broadway Review: Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone Shine in Rousing Sondheim Revival
Marianne Elliott reinvents the classic musical, taking it back to its fun and sexy roots with a gender-swapped lead role
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‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Off Broadway Review: A Triumphant New Musical About a Girl Who Looks Like Her Grandmother
Victoria Clark stars as a high schooler with Methuselah Syndrome in show based on a David Lindsay-Abaire play
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Alex Edelman’s ‘Just for Us’ Off Broadway Review: A Jewish Comic Crashes a Meeting of Neo-Nazis
In this one-man show, Edelman recounts how he faced down the most hostile audience imaginable
