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Thursday, October 16, 2025

‘Ragtime’ Review: Checking the Status of Our American Dream

Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy and Brandon Uranowitz lead the glorious cast of Lear deBessonet’s inspiriting Broadway revival at Lincoln Center Theater.

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‘Oh Happy Day!’ Review: And God Told Keyshawn to Build an Ark

by Laura Collins-Hughes

An urgent family mission propels Jordan E. Cooper’s pain-spiked supernatural comedy, a very loose riff on the biblical story of Noah.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Jen Tullock Multitasks in ‘Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God’

by Laura Collins-Hughes

The “Severance” actor portrays all the roles in a play she wrote with Frank Winters, inspired by her evangelical upbringing.

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Friday, October 10, 2025

‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ Review: Stephen Rea’s Duet With His Younger Self

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Samuel Beckett’s 55-minute contemplation of mortality comes to NYU Skirball in a neat and handsome staging by Vicky Featherstone.

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Saturday, October 4, 2025

How a Chaotic ‘Network’-Style Outburst Plays Out in ‘Weather Girl’

by Laura Collins-Hughes

In this dark comedy about climate change, a meteorologist meant to maintain a “happy voice” can no longer reassure viewers that it’s going to be all right.

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Friday, October 3, 2025

17 Off Broadway Shows to Enliven Your October

by Laura Collins-Hughes

André De Shields does Molière, Romy and Michele take the stage and Bat Boy makes his return just in time for Halloween.

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Thursday, October 2, 2025

‘The Honey Trap’ Is a Thriller That Keeps Audiences Rapt Until the End

by Laura Collins-Hughes

For a British soldier, a fatal night out breeds a hunger for revenge in Leo McGann’s suspenseful play at Irish Repertory Theater.

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

‘Caroline’ Review: Chloë Grace Moretz as a Mother Starting Over

by Laura Collins-Hughes

The actress stars in a closely observed new drama by Preston Max Allen about addiction, class and the safety of a transgender 9-year-old.

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Sunday, September 28, 2025

‘Waiting for Godot’ Review: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter on Broadway

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Jamie Lloyd’s pristinely chic Broadway revival of the existential tragicomedy casts the “Bill & Ted” stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as Samuel Beckett’s clowns.

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Friday, September 26, 2025

In ‘Punch’ on Broadway, Trying to Summon Empathy for the Unforgivable

by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Broadway play “Punch” retells the true story of a fatal blow and how restorative justice brought healing to the parents and to the young man who threw the punch.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

‘Galas’ Review: A Vocally Gifted Paper Doll

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Charles Ludlam’s camp tribute to Maria Callas, featuring the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, is glamorous to a fault at Little Island.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Keanu Reeves in ‘Waiting for Godot’ and More Broadway Shows to See This Fall

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Season highlights this fall include Michelle Williams in a Eugene O’Neill drama, a new Kristin Chenoweth musical and a revival of “Ragtime.”

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42 Plays and Musicals to See Across the U.S. This Fall

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Highlights include a Prince musical in Minnesota, “Working Girl” in California, a Zora Neale Hurston play in Connecticut and “Paranormal Activity” in Illinois.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Longest-Running Rafiki Says Goodbye to ‘The Lion King’

by Laura Collins-Hughes

After more than 9,000 performances as the shaman in the Broadway show, Tshidi Manye prepares to hang up her baboon costume.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

In London, She Became Musical Theater Royalty. Now She’s Back on Broadway.

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Marisha Wallace, headlining the final months of “Cabaret” in New York, returns to the city with Olivier nominations and newly minted British citizenship.

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Thursday, August 21, 2025

‘Twelfth Night’ Review: Lupita Nyong’o in Illyria

by Laura Collins-Hughes

The actress is luminous, alongside her look-alike brother Junior Nyong’o, Sandra Oh and Peter Dinklage, in Shakespeare’s comedy at the newly revived Delacorte Theater.

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Monday, August 18, 2025

Review: Jeff Ross’s ‘Take a Banana for the Ride’

by Laura Collins-Hughes

With mortality on his mind, the insult comic comes to Broadway in a gentle, tough-guy solo show.

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Friday, August 8, 2025

‘Well, I’ll Let You Go’ Review: A Fog of Grief

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Bubba Weiler’s quietly absorbing new play, directed by Jack Serio, is a showcase for a blue-chip cast that includes Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Michael Chernus.

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Monday, August 4, 2025

A Dozen Off Broadway Shows to Energize Your August

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Elizabeth McGovern channels Ava Gardner, a starry “Twelfth Night” reopens the Delacorte and Luke Newton of “Bridgerton” plays Alexander McQueen.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

‘Ta-Da!’ Review: Josh Sharp Tries a Thing

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Sam Pinkleton directs the comedian’s well-camouflaged coming-out story.

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Monday, July 14, 2025

‘The Gospel at Colonus’ Review: Singing Hallelujah on the Hudson

by Laura Collins-Hughes

In an open-air revival on Little Island in Manhattan, Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s musically sumptuous play follows Oedipus at the end of his life.

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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

‘Memnon’ Review: To Fight or Not to Fight?

by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Will Power’s play for the Classical Theater of Harlem, Eric Berryman stars as an Ethiopian king drawn into the Trojan War.

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Friday, June 27, 2025

Diana Oh, Passionate Voice for Queer Liberation in Theater, Dies at 38

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mx. Oh’s politically provocative and often playful works, including the Off Broadway production “{my lingerie play},” asserted the right to be oneself while having fun.

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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

‘Cold War Choir Practice’ Review: When the President Made a Deal

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ro Reddick’s music-infused comedy, set during the Cold War, finishes this year’s edition of Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks festival on a high.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

‘Fight Back’ Recreates an Act Up Meeting From 1989

by Laura Collins-Hughes

This immersive theater experiment enlists attendees to help recreate an AIDS activist meeting from 1989 as an exercise in empathy.

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Friday, June 13, 2025

Broadway Shows Closing Soon: ‘Dorian Gray,’ ‘Sunset Boulevard’ and More

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Catch two Tony-winning performances, Sarah Snook in the Oscar Wilde classic and Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond, before these productions and others wrap up.

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Friday, June 6, 2025

13 Off Broadway Shows to See in June

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Reed Birney and Lisa Emery in a two-hander, Taylor Mac in a Molière riff and Jay Ellis in a romantic drama — here’s what’s on New York stages this month.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

In One Image:

by James Estrin and Laura Collins-Hughes

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Monday, June 2, 2025

‘Eurydice’ Review: Maya Hawke in the Underworld

by Laura Collins-Hughes

The actress stars in Sarah Ruhl’s reimagining of this classic myth, with a focus on a daughter’s reunion with her beloved father after death.

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Friday, May 30, 2025

Dozens of Festival Plays Worth Traveling to This Summer

by Laura Collins-Hughes and Elisabeth Vincentelli

Across the country, you’ll find Shakespeare in amphitheaters, exciting new works on intimate stages and many regional repertories in bucolic settings.

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Friday, May 23, 2025

‘O.K.!’ Review: When the Abortion Clinic Cancels

by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Christin Eve Cato’s new backstage dramedy, an actress’s plan to terminate a pregnancy collides with the rollback of reproductive rights.

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

‘Business Ideas’ Review: A Parable in a Cute Cafe

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Milo Cramer’s new comedy about work, survival and the quest for a meaningful life opens Clubbed Thumb’s venerable Summerworks festival.

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Saturday, May 10, 2025

In ‘Irishtown’ and ‘The Black Wolfe Tone,’ Where Are the Rolling Hills?

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Two plays at Irish Repertory Theater, one featuring a “Derry Girls” star, explore the real and the mythical in cultural identity.

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Sunday, April 27, 2025

‘Real Women Have Curves’ Review: This American (Immigrant) Life

by Laura Collins-Hughes

On Broadway, the musical adaptation is a bouncy crowd pleaser about female empowerment, self-acceptance and chasing one’s dreams.

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

‘Hold Me in the Water’ Review: Smitten, and Primed to Flirt

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ryan J. Haddad follows up his Obie-winning “Dark Disabled Stories” with a rom-com.

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Monday, April 21, 2025

‘Floyd Collins’ Review: Trapped in a Cave and in a Media Circus

by Laura Collins-Hughes

One of the wonders of this glorious-sounding new Broadway production is how far from claustrophobic this Kentucky cave saga feels.

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Thursday, April 10, 2025

‘Amm(i)gone’ and ‘A Mother’: Sons Calling for Their Mothers

by Laura Collins-Hughes

The maternal embrace of young men and their battles figures in two very different plays, one a solo work and the other a Brechtian riff starring Jessica Hecht.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

At 90, Wole Soyinka Revisits His Younger, More Optimistic Self

by Laura Collins-Hughes

With the Off Broadway debut of his 1958 play “The Swamp Dwellers,” the Nigerian Nobel laureate looks back on the writer he was when he was starting out.

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Sunday, April 6, 2025

‘I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan’ Review: What Are You Waiting For?

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mona Pirnot’s comic ode to the downtown artist doubles as a meditation on the precariousness of playwriting as a creative life.

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Friday, April 4, 2025

13 Off Broadway Shows to Tempt You in April

by Laura Collins-Hughes

New short plays by Caryl Churchill, a comedy with one erstwhile Derry Girl and a musical starring Anika Noni Rose — here’s what’s on New York stages this month.

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Monday, March 31, 2025

12 Plays and Musicals Across the U.S. to Brighten the Spring

by Laura Collins-Hughes

On stages across the country, there is no shortage of adventurous work, including plays by Lauren Yee, Larissa FastHorse and Zora Howard.

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Friday, March 28, 2025

12 Plays and Musicals to Brighten the Spring

by Laura Collins-Hughes

On stages across the country, there is no shortage of adventurous work, including plays by Lauren Yee, Larissa FastHorse and Zora Howard.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

‘Amerikin’ Review: A White Supremacist’s Undoing: DNA

by Laura Collins-Hughes

The protagonist of Chisa Hutchinson’s new play is proud of his racial heritage, until he gets some unexpected test results.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

In ‘The Great Privation,’ Fending Off the Body Snatchers

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Nia Akilah Robinson’s new play, for Soho Rep, digs into an ugly historical practice.

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Friday, March 7, 2025

Just Before It Was a Cult Film, ‘Rocky Horror Show’ Was a Broadway Flop

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Tim Curry and colleagues recall the musical’s misadventure at the Belasco Theater in 1975.

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Friday, February 21, 2025

‘Safe House’ Review: Singing a Song of Loneliness

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Enda Walsh’s formal experiment, at St. Ann’s Warehouse, finds him in pared-back mode.

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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Drawing From Bob Dylan’s Songbook, Learning Lessons in Mortality

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country” and its passage through Broadway’s pandemic shutdown.

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Tuesday, February 11, 2025

‘Doomers’ Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I.

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Matthew Gasda directs his new play, which was inspired by Sam Altman’s 2023 ouster from OpenAI.

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Monday, February 10, 2025

The Next Hot Playwright? They Prefer the Ones Who Cooled Off.

by Laura Collins-Hughes

With their Tent Theater Company, Tim Sanford and Aimée Hayes want to raise the profiles of older artists and keep them from being sidelined.

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Thursday, February 6, 2025

‘Urinetown’ and Other Plays and Musicals to See in February

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Also onstage in February: Calista Flockhart in a Sam Shepard revival, boldface names in Joy Behar’s “My First Ex-Husband” and a marionette made of ice.

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Wednesday, February 5, 2025

A Tennessee Williams-Marlon Brando Tango, and Other Riffs on Classics

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Three new plays onstage in Manhattan, “Kowalski,” “Mrs. Loman” and “Nina,” mine treasures of theater history.

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Saturday, February 1, 2025

‘Cymbeline’ and F. Murray Abraham in ‘Beckett Briefs’ Delight Off Broadway

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Shakespeare’s overstuffed late play gets an entertaining refresh Off Broadway, where Irish Rep is also offering a program of Samuel Beckett shorts.

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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Practicing for When the Bombs Fall in ‘A Knock on the Roof’

by Laura Collins-Hughes

In a new solo play about ordinary people under bombardment in Gaza, a woman rehearses how she would escape her building if Israeli forces were to strike.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Book Review: ‘Mona Acts Out,’ by Mischa Berlinski

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mischa Berlinski’s shrewd comic novel finds a veteran actress reconnecting with her deposed mentor while facing the challenge of playing Cleopatra.

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Monday, January 13, 2025

The Mothers on Broadway Are Finally More Than Monsters

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Onstage, the flip-side of filial devotion has often been contempt. But a wave of forceful and multidimensional mothers suggests that may be changing.

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Friday, January 3, 2025

9 Plays to Warm Up Winter in New York

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Several festivals, including Under the Radar, are bringing a tantalizing breadth of new work to stages across New York.

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Thursday, December 26, 2024

Broadway Shows Closing Soon: ‘Our Town,’ ‘Cult of Love’ and More

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Thornton Wilder’s classic, starring Jim Parsons, wraps up, as does Leslye Headland’s angsty family drama. Catch these and other plays while you can.

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Saturday, December 21, 2024

In ‘Mrs. Stern’ and ‘Racecar,’ Humans Keep Repeating Their Worst Mistakes

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Pernicious patterns figure heavily in two thought-provoking plays on small Manhattan stages.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024

‘Annie’ Review: Whoopi Goldberg Is a Holiday Gift as Miss Hannigan

by Laura Collins-Hughes

In a just sweet enough production with a strong cast, the “View” host delivers a performance that reaffirms her savvy as a comic actor.

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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Adam Lambert Is Finding the Fun, and the Fear, in ‘Cabaret’

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Making his Broadway debut as the show’s Emcee, the singer is reveling in what he calls “a thinking piece of musical theater.”

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Broadway Tickets: Where to Get Affordable and Last-Minute Tickets

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Box-office sales, discount booths, same-day rush: Here’s everything you need to know about nabbing seats to plays and musicals in Manhattan.

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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Broadway Shows to See This Fall: ‘Our Town,’ ‘Gypsy’ and More

by Laura Collins-Hughes

A guide to every show on Broadway, including new musicals, Tony winning-dramas, quirky hits and veterans like “Hamilton” and “Chicago.”

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Sunday, November 17, 2024

Elf on Broadway Review: Grey Henson Is on the Nice List

by Laura Collins-Hughes

The musical, starring Grey Henson, has gotten Buddy delightfully, entirely right. But he is trapped inside a creaky adaptation.

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Saturday, November 16, 2024

11 Broadway Shows to See Before They Close This Winter

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Many Tony Award-winning musicals and starry plays (Robert Downey Jr., anyone?) are wrapping up their runs in January. Catch them while you can.

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Friday, November 15, 2024

Murder as Family Tradition in ‘Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists’

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Tiago Rodrigues’s play is intentionally a work of provocation, but it is also stylized to create a helpful distance from events and ideas.

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Wednesday, November 13, 2024

‘Strategic Love Play’ Review: A Slightly Dark, Not-Quite-Romantic Comedy

by Laura Collins-Hughes

In this first-date comedy, Michael Zegen and Heléne Yorke play people who might just be willing to settle for each other.

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Saturday, November 9, 2024

In ‘Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!,’ Alina Troyano Explores How Art Can Live Inside Others

by Laura Collins-Hughes

In “Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!,” Alina Troyano and her former student Branden Jacobs-Jenkins explore the ways art made by one person can live inside others.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Two Climate Change Plays Keep the Flames of Hope Alive

by Laura Collins-Hughes and Elisabeth Vincentelli

“Hothouse,” at Irish Arts Center, fends off despair with loopiness; “In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot,” at Playwrights Horizons, is a fuzzy world lacking depth.

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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Review: Delia Ephron’s ‘Left on Tenth’ Treads Lightly

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher star in this quasi romantic comedy adapted from Ephron’s memoir, which went deeper into her illness and grief.

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

In ‘Vladimir,’ a Russian Reporter’s Fight Is an Apt Election Season Tale

by Laura Collins-Hughes

The writer Erika Sheffer takes a big swing in a Manhattan Theater Club production examining “the point at which a society finds itself on the brink.”

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

Time-Traveling, or Wishing to, in ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Adapted from the offbeat 2012 film, this new musical about loneliness and the longing for do-overs is promising but still needs to find its shape.

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Monday, September 30, 2024

Disoriented in America: Two Political Plays Reflect a Changed Country

by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Off Broadway plays “Fatherland” and “Blood of the Lamb” explore the grief, anger and fear of no longer recognizing the country you love.

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Saturday, September 28, 2024

Laura Donnelly, ‘Hills of California’ Star, Is Not Some Delicate Flower

by Laura Collins-Hughes

But she did “burst into tears” reading Jez Butterworth’s rewrite of his new Broadway play, which left her with 10 days “to create an entirely new character.”

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Saturday, September 21, 2024

Kate Mulgrew Walks the Creative and Emotional Plank in ‘The Beacon’

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Holding tightly to the Dublin accent of her character, the actress talks about starring in Nancy Harris’s feminist thriller at Irish Rep.

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Saturday, September 7, 2024

Working on a Sri Lankan-Australian Epic, He Learned His Family’s Past

by Laura Collins-Hughes

As the acclaimed “Counting and Cracking” makes its North American debut, the playwright describes the work as “my soul on a plate.”

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Friday, September 6, 2024

Kara Young Is Charming in Rom-Com ‘Table 17’ Following Her Tony Win

by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Tony winner leads a top-notch cast in Zhailon Levingston’s alluringly designed production of Douglas Lyons’s hopeful new play.

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15 Shows to See on Stages Around the U.S. This Fall

by Laura Collins-Hughes

Matthew Broderick stars in “Babbitt” in Washington, D.C., and five companies nationwide will stage Eboni Booth’s Pulitzer-winning play “Primary Trust.”

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