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Tuesday, June 6, 2023

‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Star Shows Off Her Snug Upper West Side Rental by Joanne Kaufman

Bonnie Milligan, a star of the musical “Kimberly Akimbo,” has been the lucky occupant of a rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan for 15 years.

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‘Wet Brain’ Review: A Vodka-Spiked Horror Show by Laura Collins-Hughes

The children of a severely alcoholic widower navigate his incapacity, and his legacy, in John J. Caswell Jr.’s pitch-black comedy about addiction.

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Review: ‘Being Mr. Wickham’ Tracks a Rake’s Progress by Rhoda Feng

In this “Pride and Prejudice” spinoff from Original Theatre, Jane Austen’s infamous knave attempts to set the record straight.

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Miriam Silverman on Her Tony-Nominated Role in ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’ by Rachel Sherman

In “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” the Tony Award nominee inhabits her character, a racist Upper Manhattan snob, in all her flaws.

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Putting Putin Onstage, in ‘Patriots’ by Alex Marshall

Will Keen embodies Russia’s president in a West End production. “It’s been fascinating how the perception of him and the play keep changing,” he said.

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Yoshiko Chuma’s ‘Shockwave Delay’ Finds Its Groove at La MaMa by Siobhan Burke

Yoshiko Chuma and her company’s “Shockwave Delay” at La MaMa layers movement and music with video and spoken text. It’s a lot to take in.

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Michelle Ebanks Named President and CEO of the Apollo by Sarah Bahr

Michelle Ebanks, who most recently served as the president of Essence Communications, will assume the role in July.

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Monday, June 5, 2023

Ama Ata Aidoo, Groundbreaking Ghanaian Writer, Dies at 81 by Alex Williams

A playwright, novelist and poet, she was a leading African writer who explored the complexities faced by modern women living in the shadow of colonialism.

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‘The Comeuppance’ Review: a Bigger, Chillier Big Chill by Jesse Green

In his haunting new play, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins updates the reunion genre with too much jungle juice and an otherworldly visitor.

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Review: In ‘Days of Wine and Roses,’ Two Souls Lost in an Ocean of Booze by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s jazzy new musical, Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James are a glamorous couple succumbing to alcoholism.

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39 Tony-Nominated Performers on Why They Act: ‘It’s Intoxicating’ by Thea Traff, Michael Paulson, Julia Jacobs and Amanda Webster

Each year we photograph Tony nominees, and talk with them about their craft. This year we focused on actors.

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Sunday, June 4, 2023

Review: In ‘Love + Science,’ a Meet Cute Becomes a Medical Mystery by Naveen Kumar

In 1980s Manhattan, two medical students find themselves at the forefront of the AIDS crisis in David J. Glass’s new play at New York City Center.

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Ballet Hispánico Debuts Two Works by Brian Seibert

Ballet Hispánico debuts two works: one about the 17th-century nun and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and the other, “Papagayos,” featuring a supernatural hat.

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Peter Simonischek, Beloved Austrian Actor, Is Dead at 76 by Penelope Green

He played a prankster and adoring father in “Toni Erdmann,” the Oscar-nominated 2016 comedy that made him an international star, but he had long been a celebrity at home.

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Friday, June 2, 2023

For Her New Play, Tori Sampson Revisited Her ‘Black Power Household’ by Naveen Kumar

“This Land Was Made,” at the Vineyard Theater, is rooted in the playwright’s personal connection to a political movement’s awakening.

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“The Motive and the Cue” Asks What Makes a Great Performance by Roslyn Sulcas

“The Motive and the Cue,” a new play in London, imagines fraught behind-the-scenes maneuvering by John Gielgud, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor during rehearsals for a classic Broadw…

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American Airlines Theater on Broadway to Be Renamed for Todd Haimes by Michael Paulson

Roundabout Theater Company’s flagship theater will honor Haimes, the transformational leader who died in April.

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‘It’s About Connections’: Alicia Graf Mack Remakes Juilliard Dance by Brian Seibert

Mack, whom one student called an agent of change, wants to “create a place where people feel like themselves” — and a model for the professional world.

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Thursday, June 1, 2023

Review: In ‘Grey House,’ Broadway Gets an Expert Haunting by Jesse Green

A new play about a sisterhood of sorrows brings something scary to the stage, but is delivering shocks and icks enough?

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Alicia Keys Is Making a Musical. Her Own Life Inspired the Story. by Michael Paulson

The show is a highlight of the Public Theater’s new season, which will also include plays by Suzan-Lori Parks, Itamar Moses, Mary Kathryn Nagle and Ife Olujobi.

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New York Public Library Acquires George C. Wolfe’s Archives by Julia Jacobs

More than 50 boxes of ephemera from the playwright and director’s career include notes on “Angels in America” and research for “Jelly’s Last Jam.”

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Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber to Lead Broadway ‘Doubt’ Revival by Michael Paulson

The production, presented by the nonprofit Roundabout Theater Company, is to begin performances in February.

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‘Prayer for the French Republic’ Heads to Broadway by Michael Paulson

The play, which is scheduled to open in January 2024, joins a string of Broadway shows that confront antisemitism in the U.S. and abroad.

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‘Rise’ Review: Step, Repeat, Recover by Natalia Winkelman

The French filmmaker Cédric Klapisch’s feel-good dance film follows a professional ballerina returning to the stage after an ankle injury.

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Coming to City Center: ‘Pal Joey,’ ‘Titanic’ and the 20th Fall for Dance by Sarah Bahr

Also among next season’s highlights: Encores! revivals of “Once Upon a Mattress” and “Jelly’s Last Jam,” and dance works from Pam Tanowitz and Lyon Opera Ballet.

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Book Review: ‘Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style,’ by Paul Rudnick by R. Eric Thomas

Following a neurotic writer and a wealthy aesthete over four bumpy decades, “Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style” is a gay rom-com that tugs at the heart.

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Robin Wagner, Set Designer Who Won Three Tony Awards, Dies at 89 by Richard Sandomir

He created sets for more than 50 of Broadway’s most celebrated productions, including “Hair,” “A Chorus Line,” “On the Twentieth Century” and “The Producers.”

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For Brian Henry, Finding Krump ‘Felt Like Home, but a Better Version’ by Brian Seibert

The dancer, also known as HallowDreamz, is the face of krump in New York. Now he’s found another artistic home with the choreographer Andrea Miller.

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In a City of Monuments, History Lives Onstage and in the Streets by Jesse Green

Three new plays at theaters in Washington explore how the past is both erased and inescapable.

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5 Shows, 94 Actors, 450 Costumes: Emilio Sosa Dresses Broadway by Darryn King

With two Tony Award nominations in a single season, this prolific costume designer lets textiles tell the story.

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Broadway Musicians Object to David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love’ by Michael Paulson

The show plans to use recorded music instead of a live band, but a labor union says its contract for the theater requires musicians for musicals.

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2022-2023 BROADWAY SEASON
Jul 10, 2022: Into the Woods - St. James Theatre
Jul 21, 2022: The Kite Runner - Helen Hayes Theatre
Oct 02, 2022: Leopoldstadt - Longacre Theatre
Oct 03, 2022: Cost of Living - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Oct 06, 2022: 1776 - American Airlines Theatre
Oct 09, 2022: Death of a Salesman - Hudson Theatre
Oct 13, 2022: The Piano Lesson - Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Oct 20, 2022: Topdog / Underdog - John Golden Theatre
Oct 27, 2022: Walking With Ghosts - Music Box Theatre
Nov 03, 2022: Almost Famous - Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Nov 10, 2022: Kimberly Akimbo - Booth Theatre
Nov 11, 2022: Take Me Out - Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Nov 13, 2022: Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & The Pool - Vivian Beaumont Theater
Nov 17, 2022: & Juliet - Stephen Sondheim Theatre
Nov 21, 2022: A Christmas Carol - Nederlander Theatre
Nov 27, 2022: KPOP - Circle In The Square
Dec 01, 2022: Ain’t No Mo’ - Belasco Theatre
Dec 04, 2022: A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical - Broadhurst Theatre
Dec 08, 2022: Ohio State Murders - James Earl Jones Theatre
Dec 11, 2022: Some Like It Hot - Shubert Theatre
Dec 19, 2022: Between Riverside and Crazy - Helen Hayes Theatre
Dec 20, 2022: The Collaboration - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Feb 09, 2023: Pictures From Home - Studio 54
Mar 09, 2023: A Doll’s House - Hudson Theatre
Mar 16, 2023: Parade - Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Mar 19, 2023: Bob Fosse's Dancin' - Music Box Theatre
Mar 23, 2023: Bad Cinderella - Imperial Theatre
Mar 26, 2023: Sweeney Todd - Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Mar 30, 2023: Life of Pi - Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Apr 04, 2023: Shucked - Nederlander Theatre
Apr 12, 2023: Fat Ham - American Airlines Theatre
Apr 13, 2023: Camelot - Vivian Beaumont Theater
Apr 19, 2023: Summer, 1976 - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Apr 19, 2023: Peter Pan Goes Wrong - Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Apr 23, 2023: Prima Facie - John Golden Theatre
Apr 24, 2023: Good Night, Oscar - Belasco Theatre
Apr 26, 2023: New York, New York - St. James Theatre
Apr 27, 2023: The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window - James Earl Jones Theatre
May 04, 2023: The 76th Annual Tony Award Nominations
Jun 11, 2023: The 76th Annual Tony Awards - United Palace

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