Theater
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‘Suffs’ Off Broadway Review: Shaina Taub Pulls a Lin-Manuel Miranda With Tour-de-Force Suffragette Musical
Taub wears four musical-theater hats with real flair
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‘Take Me Out’ Broadway Review: Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams Hit It Out of the Ballpark
Terrific performances make Richard Greenberg’s play worth a second look
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‘Paradise Square’ Broadway Review: Call Her Madam, or Return of the Happy Hookers
A new musical finds much to admire in the oldest profession
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Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington to Co-Star in Broadway Revival of ‘The Piano Lesson’
Jackson’s wife LaTanya Richardson Jackson will direct the fall production of August Wilson’s acclaimed drama
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‘Plaza Suite’ Broadway Review: Sarah Jessica Parker Toils While Matthew Broderick Coasts
The Neil Simon comeback does not begin here
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Broadway’s ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Recasts Lead Role After Misconduct Investigation
James Snyder, the last actor to star as Harry, was fired in January
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‘Confederates’ Off Broadway Review: Dominique Morisseau Suggests College Is the New Plantation
Playwright delivers a lecture on racism in record time
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‘The Chinese Lady’ Off Broadway Review: A Forgotten Immigrant in 19th-Century America Takes Center Stage
Lloyd Suh’s play puts a spotlight on a most unusual real-life figure
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Taron Egerton Faints on Stage During First Night Performance of London Play ‘Cock’
The actor copped to a “bruised ego but I’m fine” after his understudy completed the performance Saturday
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‘On Sugarland’ Off Broadway Review: Aleshea Harris’ Sweeping Look at Black Life Amid Endless Wars
Harris nods to Tennessee Williams in her look at life in a Southern cul-de-sac near an Army base
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‘English’ Off Broadway Review: Sanaz Toossi’s Play Gets Lost in Translation
Playwright explores the challenges of teaching English to Farsi speakers in Iran
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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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