‘Derren Brown: Secret’ Broadway Review: When Distraction Is Magic
The British showman is the William Castle of illusionists
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‘American Moor’ Theater Review: An Actor Confronts Othello – and a Fraught History With White Directors
in his fiery new play, Keith Hamilton Cobb unleashes on everything when told how to play Othello
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‘Betrayal’ Broadway Review: Tom Hiddleston Gives a Master Class in Minimalism
The actor takes the play’s big moments and makes them explode by underplaying them in this revival of the Harold Pinter classic
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‘Hercules’ Theater Review: Can Disney’s Animated Hero Go the Distance to Broadway?
Alan Menken adds a few new songs to his 1997 film score for this Public Theater production
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‘Make Believe’ Theater Review: Why Childhood Isn’t for Sissies
The kids are not all right in Bess Wohl’s arresting new play
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‘Blinded by the Light’ Film Review: Joyous Indie Musical Soars to Songs of Bruce Springsteen
The film that landed the Sundance Film Festival’s biggest deal is a moving tribute to the way pop songs can detonate in our lives
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‘Sea Wall/A Life’ Broadway Review: Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge Go Solo Together
Revivals of minor plays by Nick Payne and Simon Stephens get the star treatment
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‘Bat Out of Hell’ Theater Review: How to Turn a Musical Into Meat Loaf
Jim Steinman’s long-touring musical makes a summer pit stop in New York City
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‘Coriolanus’ Theater Review: Jonathan Cake Plays Shakespeare’s Ultimate Mama’s Boy
The actor’s overly broad take on the Bard’s antihero is out of sync with the rest of Daniel Sullivan’s production
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‘Broadway Bounty Hunter’ Theater Review: Annie Golden Plays a Badass Annie Golden to Perfection
The “Orange Is the New Black” actress survives drug lords and gunfire, as well as her material
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‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Film Review: A Contemplative Quentin Tarantino Still Blows the Roof Off the Joint
Big, brash, ridiculous, too long, and in the end invigorating, the film is a grand playground for its director to fetishize old pop culture
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‘The Way She Spoke’ Theater Review: Kate del Castillo Explores Violence Against Women in Mexico
Isaac Gomez’s Off-Broadway drama has a jarring split personality
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‘Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow’ Theater Review: It’s Funny Funny Funny
Halley Feiffer and director Trip Cullman go burlesque with updated version of “The Three Sisters”
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‘Mojada’ Theater Review: Euripides’ Medea Now Lives and Murders in Queens
Luis Alfaro continues his provocative exploration of the classics by turning a spurned mother into a desperate Mexican woman
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‘The Rolling Stone’ Theater Review: The Fight Goes on for Gay Ugandans
Chris Urch’s drama examines extreme homophobia in Africa, only to find that family is more important than freedom
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‘Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise’ Theater Review: Sia Meets Kung Fu in Turgid Musical Mashup
The Shed’s pricey new production is an empty spectacle
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‘We’re Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time’ Theater Review: Memoir as Therapy
David Cale looks back a tragedy in his family and sings about it
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‘Toni Stone’ Theater Review: A Magnificent Drama About the First Woman to Play Pro Baseball
Lydia R. Diamond’s fine fact-based new play profiles an amazing athlete and trailblazer
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‘A Strange Loop’ Theater Review: Tyler Perry Won’t Be Optioning This Musical
The man behind Madea gets roasted in Michael R. Jackson’s hilarious new musical
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‘The Secret Life of Bees’ Theater Review: Duncan Sheik’s Musical Honey Pot Runneth Over
Lynn Nottage and Duncan Sheik’s stage adaptation of the best-selling novel and movie is faithful to a fault
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‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Theater Review: Danielle Brooks Shines in a Skirmish of Wit
Kenny Leon’s revival at Shakespeare in the Park offers a contemporary flavor while retaining the Bard’s poetry and comedy
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‘Lost Long’ Theater Review: Donald Margulies Writes a Play That Cries Uncle
The Pulitizer Prize-winning author of “Dinner With Friends” delivers an unwanted houseguest who should never be allowed on stage
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‘Little Women’ Theater Review: Louisa May Alcott Gets Woke
Kate Hamill’s 21st-century reimagining of the classic novel unfolds like children’s theater for the NPR crowd
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Tony Award Predictions 2019: From ‘Mockingbird’ Backlash to ‘Hadestown’
The winners are announced June 9 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City
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‘Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune’ Broadway Review: Audra McDonald Sizzles With Michael Shannon
Terrence McNally’s 1987 drama about a one-night stand gets a stirring revival
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‘Continuity’ Theater Review: Climate May Be Changing But Hollywood Never Will
Bess Wohl’s new comedy takes place on the set of a big-budget thriller that’s unraveling on and off camera
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‘Mac Beth’ Theater Review: High School Girls Reenact the Bard With Much Sound but No Fury
Erica Schmidt’s trainwreck of a production is an insult to both Shakespeare and teenage girls
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‘A Hidden Life’ Film Review: Is This Where Terrence Malick Gets His Mojo Back?
Cannes 2019: Anchored in story in a way his last few movies have not been, this World War II drama is the director’s most monumental work since “The Tree of Life”
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‘Pain and Glory’ Film Review: Antonio Banderas Plays Pedro Almodóvar – Sort Of
Cannes 2019: Almodóvar’s gentle memory piece replaces the youthful provocation of his early films with mature reflection
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‘Happy Talk’ Theater Review: Susan Sarandon Plays a Drama Queen in New Jesse Eisenberg Comedy
Sarandon returns to the New York stage for the first time in a decade for an uneven new dramedy
