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‘The Layover’ Theater Review: Patricia Highsmith’s ‘Strangers on a Train’ Reimagined
Leslye Headland‘s new play careens between terrific meet-cute humor and the darkest romantic obsessions
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‘Privacy’ Theater Review: Daniel Radcliffe Loses His Way Online but Finds Edward Snowden
James Graham’s comedy features so much audience participation that it resembles the entertainment on a cruise ship captained by Franz Kafka
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‘Oslo’ Theater Review: The Handshake That Shook the World
J. T. Rogers delivers all the suspense that led the Israelis and PLO recognize each other’s legitimacy, but his play may leave you wanting more
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‘The Taming of the Shrew’ Theater Review: All-Woman Revival in Central Park Sends Up Donald Trump
Under the direction of Phyllida Lloyd, the Public Theater’s production ends up with a lot of small men on stage
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Tony Award Predictions: Can Anything Stop ‘Hamilton’ Juggernaut?
Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s musical and Stephen Karam’s play “The Humans” look to be the big winners, but probably won’t set any records
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‘The Total Bent’ Theater Review: Stew and Heidi Rodewald Deliver a ‘Dreamgirls’ for Men
Most musical-history shows offer up ersatz versions of classics. Stew and Rodewald write classics. Period
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‘Incognito’ Theater Review: Lots of Physics, Not Much Meaning From Nick Payne
Albert Einstein’s brain meets an amnesiac pianist, and as we learn in a jumbled new play, both should just be left alone
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‘Hadestown’ Theater Review: Anais Mitchell Drops Orpheus Into a Postapocalyptic World
The bad guys steal the show from Orpheus and Eurydice, and when they do, you feel like you’ve just stepped onto Bourbon Street
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‘The Judas Kiss’ Theater Review: Oscar Wilde on Trial Again, This Time With Rupert Everett
A brilliant new revival establishes David Hare’s tragedy for what it has always been: one of the great plays of the late 20th Century
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‘Indecent’ Theater Review: Who Knew Yiddish Theater Was So Gay-Friendly?
Paula Vogel re-creates a much-censored play from early 20th century featuring lesbians and prostitutes
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‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Theater Review: A New Musical for the Hashtag Generation
Off Broadway musical could be new “Rent” for young people who prefer typing on computers to speech, and creates virtual communities on the Internet
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‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ Theater Review: Gillian Anderson, Ben Foster Take a Trip to Dollywood
Tennessee Williams‘ idea of illusion and magic has been reduced to a lot of Maybelline and Aqua Net
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Tony Predictions: It’s All About ‘Hamilton’ and Scott Rudin in Nominations Race
With Rudin’s “Shuffle Along” declared an original musical and likely to be nominated, one B.O.-challenged tuner just lost its best chance for Tony exposure
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‘Dido & Aeneas’ Theater Review: From Broadway to Opera, Kelli O’Hara Does It All
Last year’s Tony winner for “The King and I” takes a break from show tunes to go totally baroque
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‘Shuffle Along’ Broadway Review: George C. Wolfe Delivers His Masterpiece
In a year of corn-pone musicals, “Shuffle Along” exudes elegance and intelligence. It’s big only in its ambitions, theatrical thrills, and the emotions it stirs
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‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ Broadway Review: Jessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne Tackle O’Neill and Each Other
Byrne and Lange capture the way families can be civil one moment and at each other’s throats the next. Theirs is a mesmerizing dance of death
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‘Tuck Everlasting’ Broadway Review: Why Immortality Isn’t What It’s Cracked Up to Be
Nothing gives us a better glimpse of eternity than this musical’s lax narrative, generic performances, and endless ballet
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‘Fully Committed’ Broadway Review: Jesse Tyler Ferguson Brings to Life Modern Family of Entitled Creeps
It’s only food. But in this revival, it’s also power and prestige and people treating people horribly — to great comic effect
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‘Waitress’ Broadway Review: Sara Bareilles, Jessie Mueller Bake Up a Musical Storm
What happens to Adrienne Shelly’s iconic movie when a resolute pie-baking heroine is turned into a singing doormat?
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‘American Psycho’ Broadway Review: Bret Easton Ellis’ Serial Killer Gets Songs and a Soul
Benjamin Walker emerges as far more tortured than Christian Bale. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Duncan Sheik’s new musical gives him a soul
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‘The Father’ Broadway Review: Frank Langella Loses It in a Very Big Way
The beauty and horror of seeing Florian Zeller’s play is that we’re taken inside the head of a man who’s losing his mind
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‘Nathan the Wise’ Theater Review: F. Murray Abraham the Comic Keeps It Wry
The Classic Stage Company presents a theater rarity, as well as a clash of religions and acting styles
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‘Antlia Pneumatica’ Theater Review: Title Means ‘Air Pump,’ Which Is All You Need to Know
Anne Washburn asks and answers many deep questions in what sometimes resembles a radio play, with the audience too often looking at a bare stage
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‘The Crucible’ Broadway Review: Ben Whishaw, Saoirse Ronan Battle Forces of Evil
Ciaran Hinds and Sophie Okonedo also join the Salem foray in Ivo van Hove’s remarkable and disturbing new staging of an Arthur Miller classic
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‘Head of Passes’ Theater Review: Phylicia Rashad Confronts God, and He’s Mad as Hell
Job had it easy compared to Tarell Alvin McCraney’s put-upon heroine, who endures not only God’s plague of death but a crumbling set
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‘Bright Star’ Broadway Review: Steve Martin, Edie Brickell Write a TCM-Inspired Musical
Elements from such unwed-mother movie classics as “A Summer Place,” “To Each His Own,” and “Way Down East” are set to bluegrass score
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‘Dry Powder’ Theater Review: Claire Danes, John Krasinski Level Low Blows Over High Finance
Krasinski is far more relaxed on stage than Danes, which leads to a peculiar sexist subtext to Sarah Burgess’ financial drama at the Public Theater
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‘The Effect’ Theater Review: A Playwright Takes a Page From Tom Cruise
David Cromer builds the suspense up to an eerie sex scene in Lucy Prebble‘s new thriller. What will Act 2 bring? It’s not what you expect, unfortunately
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‘She Loves Me’ Broadway Review: Zachary Levi, Laura Benanti Channel Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan in Song
A fine new revival is as sweet and sugary as its most famous tune, but never loses touch with the characters’ pain and heartbreak
