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Sunday, November 16, 2025

Leslie Odom Jr., Back in the Room Where It Happens by Salamishah Tillet

In “Hamilton,” no moment captures the actor’s emotional expansiveness, artistic breadth and vocal depth better than this number.

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Saturday, November 15, 2025

At the Broadway Flea, a Market for Props, Playbills and a Good Cause by Vidhya Nagarajan and Sarah Bahr

Theaters lovers came in search of souvenirs at the Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction this fall, all for a good cause.

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Lupita Nyong’o in ‘Twelfth Night,’ and More Theater to Stream by Elisabeth Vincentelli

This month’s picks include a ravishing Nyong’o in the return of Shakespeare in the Park, and an audio play starring Liev Schreiber and Maggie Siff.

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Friday, November 14, 2025

Yvonne Brewster, Godmother of Black British Theater, Dies at 87 by Stella Raine Chu

When she studied acting in London in the 1950s, she was told she was unlikely to find work. She ended up starting one of the country’s foremost Black theaters.

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Elizabeth Franz, Versatile Tony-Winning Actress, Dies at 84 by Richard Sandomir

She won the award for her performance as Linda Loman in a 1999 Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman” and played the matriarch Kate Jerome in two Neil Simon comedies.

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‘The Seat of Our Pants’ Review: Songs for the World’s End by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ruthie Ann Miles, Shuler Hensley and Micaela Diamond lead a dream-team cast in Ethan Lipton’s musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth.”

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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Lesley Manville and Mark Strong Are Superb in ‘Oedipus’ on Broadway by Alexis Soloski

Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are superb as a doomed political power couple in Robert Icke’s adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy.

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‘Archduke’ Review: Impressionable Young Men by Juan A. Ramírez

Rajiv Joseph’s farcical play follows the nationalists who carried out the assassination that ignited World War I.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Watch Lesley Manville and Mark Strong of Broadway’s ‘Oedipus’ Go Head-to-Head by Jameson Montgomery

As the show opens in New York, its stars took their places amid the desks of T Magazine to deliver a pivotal scene.

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Sting to Bring ‘The Last Ship’ to the Met Opera by Adam Nagourney

After his musical “The Last Ship” failed on Broadway, Sting is bringing a revised version to the Met as the house looks for new sources of revenue.

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Premieres at the Paul Taylor Dance Company Lose the Taylor Thread by Gia Kourlas

As part of its Lincoln Center season, the company presented works by Lauren Lovette, Robert Battle and Hope Boykin.

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Review: Rennie Harris’s Jam Session of American Street Dance by Brian Seibert

At the Joyce Theater, “American Street Dancer” offers a history lesson in the form of a family’s house party.

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Getting Into the Arena as ‘The Hunger Games’ Goes Live by Alexis Soloski

At a specially built theater, the hit book and movie franchise has been transformed into a theatrical experience, with real fire and flying arrows.

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Lea Michelle and Her ‘Chess’ Co-Stars Know the Score by Alexis Soloski and Lanna Apisukh

Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher took a break from navigating their onstage rivalries to engage in some (mostly) friendly competition.

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‘The Baker’s Wife’ Review: Ariana DeBose Returns to New York Stage by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The Oscar winner takes on a lovely yet tricky role in a Stephen Schwartz musical that never made it to Broadway back in 1976.

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Ruth Childs Steps Out of a Giant Shadow (Her Aunt, Lucinda Childs’s) by Brian Seibert and George Etheredge

Ruth Childs, the niece of the renowned choreographer Lucinda Childs, got over being intimidated by her aunt’s achievements. Now, she debuts her own work in New York.

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Monday, November 10, 2025

‘Richard II’ Review: Michael Urie Is a Cynical, Comic Monarch by Jason Zinoman

The inventive comic actor delivers a commanding performance in Shakespeare’s portrait of feckless leadership in a sleek Off Broadway adaptation.

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In ‘Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire,’ Anne Washburn Basks in the Afterglow by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Anne Washburn’s darkly enigmatic play, a countercultural community hides the death of one of its own. But why?

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Movement Directors Are the Secret Ingredient to Movies and Runway Shows by Margaret Fuhrer

The way an actor physically inhabits a character? A model’s distinctive runway walk? Credit a movement director, who can make an ad, movie scene or fashion show feel intensely alive.

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In ‘The Queen of Versailles,’ Kristin Chenoweth Can’t Get Enough by Laura Collins-Hughes

Material excess can never be too excessive for the central character of this gilded Broadway musical, based on the 2012 film.

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Saturday, November 8, 2025

Nabil Shaban, Acclaimed Actor and Advocate for the Disabled, Dies at 72 by Clay Risen

Born without the use of his legs, he appeared memorably on television on “Doctor Who” and onstage as, among many other roles, Hamlet.

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‘Purple Rain’ Review: A Stage Musical That Misses Prince’s Charisma by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Prince was mysterious, sexy. This adaptation of his 1984 film, onstage in Minneapolis, explains too much and comes off as disorienting.

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Friday, November 7, 2025

Sex With a Stranger: How Actors Do It Onstage by Julia Jacobs

The experimental play “Good Sex” lets audiences in on the process, while giving its performers an unusual acting challenge.

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Thursday, November 6, 2025

‘Queens’ Review: The Heavy Burden of Past Lives and Uncertain Futures by Tim Teeman

Martyna Majok reimagines her 2018 play about the immigrant women who at various points live in a basement apartment in the New York City borough.

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John Russell Taylor, 90, Dies; Cultural Critic and Hitchcock Biographer by Sam Roberts

A prolific journalist and author, he wrote the only authorized biography of Alfred Hitchcock and heaped early praise on the future Nobel laureate Harold Pinter.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

‘Girl, Interrupted,’ With Aimee Mann Songs, to Be Staged in New York by Michael Paulson

The Public Theater will present the play, which Martyna Majok adapted from the best-selling memoir.

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Juliana May Brings the Audacity of Optimism to BAM Fisher by Gia Kourlas and Elias Williams

For her new work, opening at BAM Fisher, Juliana F. May looks to early influences to create her version of a postmodern musical.

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3 Plays About Jewish Identity That Resist Easy Answers by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The Off Broadway shows “Hannah Senesh,” “Jewish Plot” and “Playing Shylock” take stock of discussions around casting and storytelling.

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In ‘Wicked: For Good,’ Ariana Grande Solidifies Herself as a Dramatic Actress by Kyle Buchanan and Geordie Wood

The pop superstar reinvented herself in the first “Wicked,” but the sequel shows just how much further she can go as an actress.

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In ‘Figure,’ Dancing in Costumes that Don’t Want to Dance by Nina Siegal

A fashion designer and a choreographer created a work in which intentionally cumbersome garments lead and the dancers’ movements follow.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2025

The Joyce Theater to Receive $15 Million Gift by Adam Nagourney

The money, from the late Anupam Puri and Rajika Puri, will help the dance-dedicated theater in a time of uncertainty for organizations in the field.

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