Ensemble-driven plays like “Purpose” and “English” received a slew of nominations, while Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal and Idina Menzel were overlooked.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMA truly twisted yarn about a long-lived corpse makes a surprisingly feel-good Broadway musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PMGroff is sensational as the ’60s “nightclub animal” in a Broadway bio-musical jukebox that doesn’t live up to its star.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMA Broadway remake of the operetta, starring David Hyde Pierce, moves the plot to the Big Easy, where good times roll, even if some jokes don’t quite land.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PM“Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp,” a new collection of one-acts by the great British playwright, is a cause for celebration, wonderment and grief.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42PMKimberly Belflower’s play, on Broadway starring Sadie Sink, gives high school students a chance to prosecute a #MeToo case against “The Crucible.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24PMEn route to Broadway, the TV series about backstage shenanigans and Marilyn Monroe has been rejiggered, with the same great songs but a whole new plot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PMBernadette Peters and Lea Salonga lead the festivities in a new Broadway revue of the great musical dramatist’s work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32PMThe composer and lyricist of “A New Brain,” “Falsettos” and other shows answered the pains of life with jaunty songs. He died this week at 73.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMThe It girl with the spit curl looks great for 100, but her Broadway musical, which feels like one big merch grab, is boop-boop-a-don’t.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PMNick Jonas and Adrienne Warren star in a muddy revival of Jason Robert Brown’s still-scathing musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:03PMGeorge Clooney makes Edward R. Murrow a saint of sane journalism for a world that still needs one in a stage adaptation of the 2005 movie.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:12AMKieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk star in a bumpy revival of David Mamet’s play about salesmen with nothing worth selling.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42PMThe “Succession” actress plays all 26 roles in this Oscar Wilde classic reimagined as a video spectacle. If only there were less screen time and more IRL contact.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMShakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMPlaying all the characters in an update of Chekhov, the Irish actor turns what could be merely a stunt into a tour de force.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMA family not unlike Jesse Jackson’s gets barbecued on Broadway by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12PMDesire comes a distant second to violence in a Brooklyn revival of the Tennessee Williams classic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMIbsen’s scathing drama about medical and moral contagion gets a high-sheen Off Broadway staging starring a riveting Lily Rabe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32PMAn Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03PMA story as old as Cain and Abel gets filtered through cellphone and video confrontations in Samuel D. Hunter’s bleak two-hander.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PMBess Wohl’s moving new play, about a group of women in 1970s Ohio, explores the power of sisterhood and the limits of motherhood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PMAct 1 was a constant struggle for rent and opportunity. But now that these emerging dramatists have emerged, what will they make of Act 2?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMThe “Wicked” belter scales a 300-foot tree, and a mountain of songs, in a powerful if woo-woo musical about trauma and resilience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PMAccording to Jordan Harrison’s museum piece of a play, we are long extinct by 2240. But the future has kept our Betamaxes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:12PMThe Apple TV+ series comes to the stage of the Kennedy Center with its snark and affection for classic Broadway musicals intact.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMFor the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly free.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PM“Show/Boat: A River” reverses the racial lens on the great-grandfather of American musicals.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:03PMWhat happened to “Sunset Boulevard,” “Back to the Future,” “Cinderella” and “Tammy Faye” when they crossed the Atlantic?
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