
Culture
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‘Prayer for the French Republic’ Off Broadway Review: A Tour de Force Look at a Jewish Family in Paris
By By Robert Hofler | February 1, 2022 @ 8:00 PMJoshua 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
By By Robert Hofler | February 1, 2022 @ 6:15 PMThere 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
By By Robert Hofler | January 31, 2022 @ 7:00 PMRicky 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
By Robert Hofler | January 31, 2022 @ 7:00 PMPlaywright, 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
By Robert Hofler | January 26, 2022 @ 6:00 PMThe actors rule in this Detroit drama by Dominique Morisseau
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‘The Hang’ Off Broadway Review: Taylor Mac Wraps Socrates in Tulle in Blissfully Bizarre Musical
By Robert Hofler | January 23, 2022 @ 12:00 PMAn 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
By By Robert Hofler | December 13, 2021 @ 7:00 PMThe 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
By By Robert Hofler | December 9, 2021 @ 6:30 PMMarianne 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
By By Robert Hofler | December 8, 2021 @ 7:00 PMVictoria Clark stars as a high schooler with Methuselah Syndrome in show based on a David Lindsay-Abaire play
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‘Is There Still Sex in the City?’ Off Broadway Review: Insufferable Candace Bushnell Goes in for the Shill
By By Robert Hofler | December 7, 2021 @ 6:00 PMAfter television, movies and publishing, is the theater this writer’s final act?
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‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Broadway Review: Rob McClure Channels Robin Williams
By By Robert Hofler | December 5, 2021 @ 7:00 PMMcClure delivers a great musical comedy performance despite being nearly buried alive in plastic
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UTA Launches $200 Million SPAC to Pursue Video Game Acquisitions
By Diane Haithman | December 1, 2021 @ 2:49 PMFormer Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aimé will chair the new blank-check company
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‘Clyde’s’ Broadway Review: Uzo Aduba’s Devil Wouldn’t Be Caught Dead in Prada
By By Robert Hofler | November 23, 2021 @ 6:00 PMIn her new comedy, Lynn Nottage delivers a boss who is literally from hell
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‘Trouble in Mind’ Broadway Review: LaChanze Delivers the Star Turn Denied to Too Many Others
By Robert Hofler | November 18, 2021 @ 7:00 PMA 1955 play by Alice Childress makes an historic and very belated debut
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‘Cullud Wattah’ Off Broadway Review: A Powerful Kitchen-Sink Drama Set in Flint
By Robert Hofler | November 17, 2021 @ 6:00 PMErika Dickerson-Despenza’s new drama addresses a toxic water crisis in real time