‘Eddie and Dave’ Theater Review: What a Drag! Van Halen Reimagined With Women as Classic Rockers
Amy Staats’ new comedy lampoons Van Halen by showing the men for what they really are
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‘Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State’ Theater Review: How Not to Pick Sides in 2019
The stand-up comic’s latest show will offend no one. And that’s a problem
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‘About Alice’ Theater Review: Calvin Trillin’s Wry, Rueful Look at His Late Wife
Jeffrey Bean and Carrie Paff star in a slender but thoughtful look at the writer’s beloved wife and muse
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‘Trick or Treat’ Theater Review: Everything Bad Happens on Halloween
Jack Neary’s new play is a little like watching “Arsenic and Old Lace”… if the old aunts had Alzheimer’s and wore Depends
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‘Choir Boy’ Broadway Review: ‘Moonlight’ Writer Looks at a Young Gay Black Man With ‘Swish’
Tarell Alvin McCraney makes an exhilirating Broadway debut
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‘Blue Ridge’ Theater Review: Smart, Angry and Trapped in a North Carolina Recovery Center
Marin Ireland finds no escape from herself in Abby Rosebrock’s fine new play
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‘Cold War’ Film Review: Romance in Postwar Europe Is Ravishing and Haunted
Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski returns to Europe in the aftermath of World War II in his first film since the 2013 Oscar winner “Ida”
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‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Broadway Review: Aaron Sorkin Revisits Harper Lee’s Classic
Jeff Daniels delivers a more complicated version of Atticus Finch that’s a far cry from Gregory Peck
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‘Fabulation’ Theater Review: Lynn Nottage’s Riches-to-Rags Story of a PR Queen
The two-time Pulitzer winner’s 2004 comedy gets a broad but funny Off Broadway revival
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‘Slave Play’ Theater Review: A Twisty Play That’s One Giant Trigger Warning
Jeremy O. Harris’ provocative professional debut is uneven but wildly ambitious
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‘The Jungle’ Theater Review: A Vital, Necessary Journey Into a Modern Refugee Camp
This British important is that rarest of theatrical experiences: It makes us think, it makes us feel and it challenges us
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‘Network’ Broadway Review: Bryan Cranston Conjures a Burnt-Out Bill O’Reilly
Director Ivo van Hove’s kinetic, immersive production dominates until Paddy Chayevsky’s moralizing takes over in the show’s second half
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‘Ben Is Back’ Film Review: Julia Roberts Goes for Broke in Another Troubled Teen Movie
Lucas Hedges also stars in the family drama about drug addiction, which was directed by his father Peter Hedges
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‘The Cher Show’ Broadway Review: Stephanie J Block Is Strong Enough to Be the Real Star
The new musical recycles all the originality and wit of old network TV
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‘Everybody Knows’ Film Review: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem Shine in Strong, Disquieting Thriller
Asghar Farhadi’s dark drama stars Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who have rarely gone to these emotional extremes in their work together
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‘The Hard Problem’ Theater Review: Tom Stoppard Is Soft on Brain Science
A true believer does battle with the true scientists in a surprisingly sentimental play starring Jon Tenney and Adelaide Clemens
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‘Downstairs’ Theater Review: Tyne Daly and Tim Daly Play Siblings Plagued With Demons Past and Present
Theresa Rebeck writes a surprise thriller
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‘The Prom’ Broadway Review: Indiana’s Back on the LGBT Chopping Block
Four ham actors take on a bunch of homophobes in the Midwest. It’s not sure who wins
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‘Wild Goose Dreams’ Theater Review: When Computers Upstage a North Korean Defector
Hansol Jung’s new play says it’s tough to get personal in a world filled with machines. Her computer chorus, however, tells us something else
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‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ Theater Review: Raul Esparza Sends Up Hitler in the Age of Trump
Even Charlie Chaplin wasn’t this good at mocking Adolf Hitler
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‘At Eternity’s Gate’ Film Review: Willem Dafoe Brushes With Brilliance in Van Gogh Biopic
Dafoe gives a towering performance in Julian Schnabel’s sensitive but unconventional film
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‘Thom Pain (Based on Nothing)’ Theater Review: Michael C Hall Turns Nothingness Into High Art
Will Eno’s one-man play gets a thrilling Off Broadway revival
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‘The New One’ Broadway Review: Mike Birbiglia Now Sleepwalks With a Stroller
The gifted monologue brings his self-deprecating wit to the Great White Way
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‘King Kong’ Broadway Review: Giant Puppet Upstages the Mere Humans
Broadway’s biggest animatronic leading man somehow survives an inept book by John Thorne, who gave us “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”
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‘Torch Song’ Theater Review: Harvey Fierstein Passes It to Michael Urie
In the original, Fierstein’s outrageousness got you through the play’s lumpy soap opera moments. Urie, in the revival, works the suds
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‘Boy Erased’ Film Review: Gay Conversion Drama Has Powerful Moments But Also Rote Ones
Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman play Baptist parents who send Lucas Hedges to “ex-gay” therapy in Joel Edgerton’s drama
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‘The Other Side of the Wind’ Film Review: Orson Welles’ Final Film Is Worth the Wait
Lovingly assembled after 40 years, the master’s swan song is a winking satire drawing on his own love-hate relationship with Hollywood
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‘Good Grief’ Theater Review: Ngozi Anyanwu Looks Back With Love and Hip-Hop
Anyanwu stars in her own memory play about the suburban-raised daughter of Nigerian immigrants reflecting on a lost love
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‘Days of Rage’ Theater Review: This Revolution Won’t Be Televised
Steven Levenson (“Dear Evan Hansen”) sets his new play during the Vietnam War, but leaves his characters stranded in a middle-class limbo
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‘The Waverly Gallery’ Broadway Review: Kenneth Lonergan Remembers a Lost, Eccentric Life
A starry cast — Elaine May, Lucas Hedges, Joan Allen, and Michael Cera — brings an early work from the writer to Broadway
