Sunday, March 31, 2019
“What the Constitution Means to Me,” the best new play of the Broadway season so far, rivetingly combines personal history and civic engagement.
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What if black people, sick of injustice, picked up and left the United States? An outrageous satire by Jordan E. Cooper imagines the possibility, and the loss.
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What happens when the husband you thought you knew is discovered harboring a terrible secret? Maddie Corman learned the hard way.
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How should we look at an old show with objectionable gender politics? As a historical curio, or as the next item on the cancel culture agenda?
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A threatening text message with a homophobic epithet leads to catastrophe for two families in a new play by Michael McKeever.
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In John Guare’s Möbius strip of a play, John Larroquette is a playwright who finds himself trapped in a surreal mystery called “Nantucket Sleigh Ride.”
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With a few changes of emphasis and one major lyric rewrite, the 1948 musical comedy comes through detox as a bawdy, heady pleasure.
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Tori Sampson’s play blends elements of mean-girl comedy and African folk tale to create a fable for our time about women and their bodies.
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Milo Rau, called “the world’s most controversial director,” asks a cast of young people to relate the story of a notorious Belgian pedophile.
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Bekah Brunstetter’s timely comedy about a Christian baker looks with sympathy (if not approval) at the other side of the public accommodation debate.
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Look! Up on the stage! It’s a show with good intentions (and a “Dear Evan Hansen”-like setup) that can’t rise above its cartoonish plot.
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The fine Signature Theater revival of Athol Fugard’s 1969 play shows how a classic seemingly fixed in one era nevertheless keeps evolving.
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Madeleine George’s new play brings back the god Dionysus to convince the women of Monmouth County, N.J., that the ecological end is near.
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The path to opening night in New York used to pass through several cities. Now it rarely does — but are shows better off for it?
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In “Sea Wall/A Life,” at the Public Theater, a pair of monologues gives the two stars ample opportunity to shine and mourn.
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Since you provide the content for this group’s delightful hip-hop musical improvisation, you really have to lend them your ears (and phones).
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This 1950 musical has some charming numbers, but without a monster personality at its center it seems like less of a comedy than a requiem.
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A prizewinning play by Leah Nanako Winkler puts the traditional “crazy family” dramedy in a new social and racial setting.
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Laura Benanti and three other recently arrived principals adjust the focus of the hit revival from the political to the personal.
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With the help of fresh air, a Mother Abbess and a mild hallucinogen, six women spend a week in search of a female spirituality.
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Calvin Trillin has turned his heartbroken memoir into a stage play that reincarnates his beloved wife and muse.
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The Italian conductor (and philanderer and anti-Fascist) gets the Great Man treatment from Ensemble for the Romantic Century.
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Something groundbreaking on Broadway: The story of “an effeminate young man of color” who finds his strength through singing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PMOfferings at the festival include a riff on “Uncle Vanya”; a “Frankenstein” adaptation highlighting a mother’s grief; and an intimate tale of displacement.
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An eclectic opening weekend included sketches and songs by Nigerian women, two unsettling monologues and a punk-rock reminiscence (with mixtape to follow).
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Glossy and bristling with fine performances, this adaptation of the 1960 Harper Lee classic gets the Aaron Sorkin treatment.
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Monday, December 10, 2018
In her new play, loosely inspired by “A Doll’s House,” Heather Raffo is radiant as a New York architect caught between cultures.
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In a staggering professional New York debut, the playwright Jeremy O. Harris unpacks interracial relationships both antebellum and postmodern.
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It was a year when classics were reincarnated in deceptively modest interpretations, conventional story forms were tossed aside and strong voices roared.
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