‘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
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‘The Inheritance’ Broadway Review: A Big Gay Mashup Offers Real Suds, Limp Toes
Matthew Lopez’s opus delivers a Homophile 101 course in camp classics and other major works of questionable art
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‘Evita’ Theater Review: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Eva Peron Is Back and Lovelier Than Ever
Solea Pfeiffer rules by giving the public what it wants: a star and a clothes horse
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‘Frozen II': Critics Mostly Enchanted By Disney’s ‘Deeply Strange’ Sequel
While not as good as the 2013 original, reviews admire the film’s music and heart
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‘Fires in the Mirror’ Theater Review: A Stirring Revival of Anna Deavere Smith’s Solo Show About a 1991 Race Riot
Michael Benjamin Washington takes on nearly 30 characters in Smith’s incisive solo documentary show
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‘Kristin Chenoweth: For the Girls’ Broadway Review: Get This Woman a Variety Show
The Tony-winning legend returns to Broadway with a cabaret act supersized with lots of guest performers
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‘Tina’ Broadway Review: Adrienne Warren Captures Tina Turner’s Distinctive Bray of a Voice
The new jukebox musical highlights a unique showbiz mother, but otherwise sticks to the rules of the genre
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‘Cyrano’ Theater Review: Peter Dinklage Drops the Big Schnoz to Sing
The “Game of Thrones” star headlines a musical adaptation of the classic play, playing a hero who’s masochistic rather than noble
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‘The Irishman’ Film Review: Martin Scorsese’s Gangster Epic Is Melancholic and Bittersweet
For De Niro, Pacino, Pesci and company, the flash of mob life leads either to violent ends or sad, aging estrangement
