
Culture
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‘Lost Long’ Theater Review: Donald Margulies Writes a Play That Cries Uncle
By Robert Hofler | June 4, 2019 @ 6:00 PMThe Pulitizer Prize-winning author of ”Dinner With Friends“ delivers an unwanted houseguest who should never be allowed on stage
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‘Dying City’ Theater Review: Mary Elizabeth Winstead Juggles Twin Brothers
By Robert Hofler | June 3, 2019 @ 6:00 PMChristopher Shinn directs an uneven production of his own play set in a traumatized New York City during the Iraq War
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Tony Award Predictions 2019: From ‘Mockingbird’ Backlash to ‘Hadestown’
By Robert Hofler | June 3, 2019 @ 10:45 AMThe winners are announced June 9 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City
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‘BLKS’ Theater Review: When Women Aren’t Afraid to Show Their Muscle
By Robert Hofler | May 9, 2019 @ 6:00 PMAziza Barnes’s comedy benefits from Robert O’Hara’s broad-strokes direction and two inspired actors
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‘Passage’ Theater Review: Provocative Drama Asks If the Cultural Divide Can Ever Be Bridged
By Robert Hofler | May 5, 2019 @ 4:30 PMChristopher Chen’s provocative new play shows what happens to good people on both sides of a geopolitical divide
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‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ Theater Review: Cillian Murphy Takes Flight
By Robert Hofler | April 28, 2019 @ 3:30 PMEnda Walsh adapts Max Porter’s novel into a nightmare of a play that exhausts, but in a fascinating way
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‘Beetlejuice’ Broadway Review: Tim Burton’s Ghosts Turn Scarily Uncomic in Musical Misfire
By Robert Hofler | April 25, 2019 @ 6:00 PMAlex Brightman plays Michael Keaton’s character from the 1988 big-screen comedy
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‘Ink’ Broadway Review: Rupert Murdoch Gets Hit With a Puff Piece
By Robert Hofler | April 24, 2019 @ 6:00 PMJames Graham’s play treats the mogul’s revamp of tabloid journalism like a Broadway musical, and not a very serious one
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‘Tootsie’ Broadway Review: Santino Fontana Can’t Fill Dustin Hoffman’s Heels in New Musical
By Robert Hofler | April 23, 2019 @ 6:05 PMIn composer David Yazbek’s musical version of the 1982 Oscar winner, cross-dressing heroine Dorothy Michaels doesn’t learn a thing
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‘All My Sons’ Broadway Review: Annette Bening and Tracy Letts Face the Awful Truth
By Robert Hofler | April 22, 2019 @ 6:00 PMThe two actors deliver powerful performances in an otherwise unfocused revival of Arthur Miller’s play
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‘The Pain of My Belligerence’ Theater Review: Young Woman on the Verge of Getting Fired
By Robert Hofler | April 22, 2019 @ 5:00 PMMaybe the New Yorker is part of Halley Feiffer’s world. It’s definitely not something her character reads, much less writes for
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‘Gary’ Broadway Review: Nathan Lane Cleans Up a Big, Bloody and Inspired Mess
By Robert Hofler | April 21, 2019 @ 5:00 PMThe actor scores in Taylor Mac’s demented new comedy, which manages to improve mightily on Shakespeare’s worst play
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‘Hillary and Clinton’ Broadway Review: Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow Play Politics as That Couple
By Robert Hofler | April 18, 2019 @ 4:30 PMLucas Hnath’s tragicomedy examines the most unfair marriage on Earth. Or anywhere else, for that matter
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‘Burn This’ Broadway Review: Adam Driver and Keri Russell Fall in Lust
By Robert Hofler | April 16, 2019 @ 6:00 PMThe actors perform a very lively parody of Lanford Wilson’s play about a woman who chooses the wrong Neanderthal
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‘Socrates’ Theater Review: Michael Stuhlbarg Teaches Us Everything
By Robert Hofler | April 16, 2019 @ 6:00 PMThe actor rakes democracy over the coals of time in Tim Blake Nelson’s great new play