‘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
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‘The Souvenir’ Film Review: Sundance Award-Winner Weaves a Dreamy but Honest Memory Piece
Honor Swinton-Byrne (daughter of Tilda) stars in a forthright recollection of bad romance, exquisitely crafted by Joanna Hogg
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‘BLKS’ Theater Review: When Women Aren’t Afraid to Show Their Muscle
Aziza Barnes’s comedy benefits from Robert O’Hara’s broad-strokes direction and two inspired actors
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A Pokemon Superfan Reviews ‘Detective Pikachu': Problems Come Out to Play in Disappointing Film (Guest Blog)
Unfortunately, the mechanics that often make a video game fun and meaningful don’t always translate to a good story
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‘Passage’ Theater Review: Provocative Drama Asks If the Cultural Divide Can Ever Be Bridged
Christopher Chen’s provocative new play shows what happens to good people on both sides of a geopolitical divide
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‘Apocalypse Now Final Cut’ Film Review: Francis Ford Coppola’s New Version Might Be the Best One Yet
Tribeca Film Festival 2019: “You can’t make art without risk any more than you can make babies without sex,” Coppola tells Steven Soderbergh following the screening of his new cut of the 1979 classic
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‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ Theater Review: Cillian Murphy Takes Flight
Enda 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
Alex 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
James 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
In 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
The 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
Maybe 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
The actor scores in Taylor Mac’s demented new comedy, which manages to improve mightily on Shakespeare’s worst play
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‘Rafiki’ Film Review: African Gay Romance Breaks New Ground
The first Kenyan film to ever screen at the festival is perhaps more notable for what it represents than what it is
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‘Hillary and Clinton’ Broadway Review: Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow Play Politics as That Couple
Lucas Hnath’s tragicomedy examines the most unfair marriage on Earth. Or anywhere else, for that matter
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‘Hadestown’ Broadway Review: A Mythic New Musical for the Trump Era
Anaïs Mitchell’s new musical revisits the ancient Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice
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‘Burn This’ Broadway Review: Adam Driver and Keri Russell Fall in Lust
The 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
The actor rakes democracy over the coals of time in Tim Blake Nelson’s great new play
