‘West Side Story’ Broadway Review: Will Ivo van Hove’s Cinematic Revival Upstage Steven Spielberg?
The classic musical about the Sharks and the Jets has never been tougher or better
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‘Anatomy of a Suicide’ Theater Review: Carla Gugino and Company Face Their Own End
Alice Birch’s new play exposes the false escape hatch that is motherhood
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‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’ Theater Reviews: Our Favorite Monsters Get a Makeover
Bram Stoker gets an unexpected transfusion. Mary Shelley should demand a rewrite
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‘Darling Grenadine’ Theater Review: Daniel Zaitchik’s Original Musical Is Wonderful and Unabashedly Romantic
A new talent in the theater dazzles with a simple but ultimately dark love story
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‘Hamlet’ Theater Review: Ruth Negga Delivers Bard’s Danish Prince as Joker Jr.
The Oscar-nominated actor pulls a Sarah Bernhardt in her American stage debut
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‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ Theater Review: Duncan Sheik’s Musical Version of ’60s Classic Doesn’t Swing
Paul Mazursky’s classic movie now has singing couples, plus Suzanne Vega as bandleader/narrator
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‘Judgment Day’ Theater Review: Christopher Shinn Adapts a Story the Nazis Banned
A German rarity from the 1930s returns in a massive production by Richard Jones
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‘Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven’ Theater Review: Stephen Adly Guirgis Delivers the Funniest, Saddest Play of the Year
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright delivers a female ”Iceman Cometh“ for this century
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‘Greater Clements’ Theater Review: Judith Ivey Carries the Very Heavy Load of a Son
The actor brings her naturalistic gifts to Samuel D. Hunter’s uneven new play about life in a town that deserves to die
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‘Jagged Little Pill’ Broadway Review: Alanis Morissette’s Classic Album Becomes a #MeToo Angst Fest
Oscar-winning writer Diablo Cody and the Tony-winning director Diane Paulus join forces for a super-topical jukebox musical
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‘A Bright Room Called Day’ Theater Review: Tony Kushner Revisits His First, Flawed Play
The author of ”Angels in America“ rewrites his stage debut, about Nazi Germany, the Reagan Revolution and other things on his mind
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‘The Young Man From Atlanta’ Theater Review: Aidan Quinn Enters Willy Loman’s Turf
The ”Elementary“ actor recalls the theater’s most beleaguered salesman in this uneven but ultimately moving revival
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‘The Underlying Chris’ Theater Review: Will Eno Goes Full Hallmark
The playwright continues to explore the wondrousness of life, even when it’s downright ordinary
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‘The Half-Life of Marie Curie’ Theater Review: Kate Mulgrew Is Radioactively Great
Lauren Gunderson’s new two-hander gives all the best lines to a woman you probably never heard of
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‘History of Violence’ Theater Review: Edouard Louis’ Best-Seller Makes a Transatlantic Crossing
The French novel is retold in a new German play in which a young man’s mental state is fractured even further in the aftermath of a sexual attack
