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Friday, January 17, 2020

At Under the Radar, Avant-Garde Shows Leap Outside Reality by Ben Brantley, Jesse Green and Laura Collins-Hughes

The Public Theater’s festival has included 12 featured offerings, four cabaret acts and six pieces of developmental work. Here’s what our critics saw.

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Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Best Theater of 2019 by Ben Brantley, Jesse Green, Laura Collins-Hughes, Alexis Soloski and Elisabeth Vincentelli

Shows that defied categorization offered a stark choice: Escape an angry world, or face up to its travails. Beyond Broadway, writers explored race, inequality and addiction.

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Monday, June 10, 2019

The Best and Worst of the Tony Awards 2019 by Ben Brantley, Jesse Green, Scott Heller and Margaret Lyons

Swinging lights. Broadway beefs. Words of wisdom. And a restroom serenade. If only some of the highlights were on TV.

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Monday, June 11, 2018

The Best and Worst of the Tony Awards 2018 by Ben Brantley, Jesse Green, Scott Heller and Joshua Barone

A look at the most memorable moments from this year’s ceremony celebrating Broadway.

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Friday, June 1, 2018

the 25 best american plays: The Ones We Left Behind by Ben Brantley, Jesse Green, Laura Collins-Hughes, Alexis Soloski and Elisabeth Vincentelli

Majority rule (mostly). One play per playwright. How we put together the 25 Plays list, and a bid to remember notable writers and favorite works that missed the cut.

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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Loving and Hating the Broadway Season: Our Critics Could Have Argued All Night by Ben Brantley, Jesse Green and Scott Heller

Disagreeing on classic musicals, agreeing on “The Band’s Visit,” and worried about a season when revivals outshone new plays.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Hard Truths or Easy Targets? Confronting the Summer of Trump Onstage by Ben Brantley, Jesse Green and Alexis Soloski

Theater has quickly taken on the Trump presidency. Whether what’s onstage can change minds or spark action is open to debate.

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2019-2020 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30: Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune - Broadhurst Theatre
Jul 25: Moulin Rouge - Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Aug 08: Sea Wall / A Life - Hudson Theatre
Sep 05: Betrayal - Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Sep 15: Derren Brown: Secret - Cort Theatre
Sep 24: The Height of the Storm - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Oct 01: The Great Society - Vivian Beaumont Theater
Oct 02: Freestyle Love Supreme - Booth Theatre
Oct 06: Slave Play
Oct 10: Linda Vista - Helen Hayes Theatre
Oct 15: The Rose Tattoo - American Airlines Theatre
Oct 16: The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical - Longacre Theatre
Oct 17: The Sound Inside - Studio 54
Oct 20: American Utopia - Hudson Theatre
Nov 07: Tina - The Tina Turner Musical - Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Nov 17: The Inheritance - Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Nov 20: A Christmas Carol - Lyceum Theatre
Dec 01: Harry Connick, Jr. - A Celebration of Cole Porter - Nederlander Theatre
Dec 05: Jagged Little Pill - Broadhurst Theatre
Jan 15: My Name is Lucy Barton - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Jan 21: A Soldier's Play - American Airlines Theatre
Jan 23: Grand Horizons - Helen Hayes Theatre
Feb 01: The Minutes
Feb 06: West Side Story - Broadway Theatre
Mar 05: Girl from the North Country - Belasco Theatre
Mar 12: Six - Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Mar 31: Diana - Longacre Theatre
Apr 07: Caroline, or Change - Studio 54
Apr 09: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Apr 21: Birthday Candles - American Airlines Theatre
Apr 22: How I Learned to Drive - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Apr 23: Take Me Out - Helen Hayes Theatre
TBA: Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough
TBA: Blue

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