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Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Broadway Performers Rehearse for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade by Erik Piepenburg and Dolly Faibyshev

We tagged along to a late-night rehearsal for performers from “Just in Time,” “Buena Vista Social Club” and “Ragtime.”

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

45 Years of Rock ’n’ Roll Theater at St. Ann’s Warehouse by Ben Brantley

In shows like “Black Watch,” “The Jungle” and “Oklahoma!,” the institution has affirmed the theater’s singular power to shock and illuminate our world.

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Monday, November 24, 2025

With Tom Felton, ‘Harry Potter’ Breaks Its Own Broadway Record by Michael Paulson

The actor is now playing an adult version of the sinister child he portrayed in the film series.

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‘Queen of Versailles’ to Close as New Broadway Musicals Struggle by Michael Paulson

The show, starring Kristin Chenoweth, will remain open through the holidays. The announcement comes just two weeks after the musical opened.

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Wen Hui Was Making Feminist Art Before She Even Knew the Term by Rebecca L. Davis

The Chinese dancer, choreographer and filmmaker “didn’t think in those terms” when she was young. Now, she said, “I’m more relaxed, more clear on what I want to do.”

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This ‘All My Sons’ Is Tragedy Done Right by Houman Barekat

Arthur Miller and Ivo van Hove are a perfect match again, in a new production starring Bryan Cranston and Paapa Essiedu.

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Living, Breathing, Seeing and Teaching Theater by Elisabeth Vincentelli

James Bundy leads the theater program at Yale while directing his own revival of “Hedda Gabler.” He told us about a week in his cultural life.

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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Musicals

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sara Bareilles, Joshua Henry, Jeanine Tesori, Jason Robert Brown and New York Times writers and editors pick 13 songs to seal the deal.

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‘Jazz Island’ at Ailey Will Revive an Old-School Theatrical Style by Brian Seibert

Maija García’s “Jazz Island” is a full-company narrative of a kind that Ailey hasn’t done in a while. And it features an Afro-Caribbean score by Etienne Charles.

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Sunday, November 23, 2025

‘Gruesome Playground Injuries’ Review: Does It Hurt? by Laura Collins-Hughes

Kara Young and Nicholas Braun star in the Off Broadway revival of Rajiv Joseph’s two-hander about best friends on parallel paths to self-destruction.

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Saturday, November 22, 2025

How Gaten Matarazzo, the ‘Stranger Things’ Star, Spends His Day Off by Sarah Bahr and Christian Rodriguez

Gaten Matarazzo, a breakout star of Netflix’s megahit horror series, attends Rangers hockey games with his dad and walks the Hudson River with his girlfriend.

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Friday, November 21, 2025

‘Wicked: For Good’ Review: Two Besties Till the End by Manohla Dargis

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande return to Oz for the second part of Jon M. Chu’s maximalist adaptation of the Broadway musical.

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‘Initiative’ Review: High School as an Epic Struggle by Elisabeth Vincentelli

A new production at the Public Theater takes up five hours of stage time to tell the story of a group of friends from their first day to graduation.

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Review: Even With Olga Smirnova, Dutch National Ballet Falters by Gia Kourlas

For its season at New York City Center, its first major engagement here in years, the company disappoints with mediocre repertory.

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How 2 New Songs Made Their Way Into ‘Wicked: For Good’ by Esther Zuckerman

Each witch gets a new number as part of an effort to flesh out the arc of the stage show’s second act.

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‘Wicked: For Good’ — Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s Never-Ending Press Tour by Esther Zuckerman

The pink-and-green-themed promotions were everywhere, with all the advantages and limitations that kind of marketing push entails.

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Thursday, November 20, 2025

‘Two Strangers’ Review: Meeting Cute, Toting Baggage by Laura Collins-Hughes and Sara Krulwich

The effervescent musical, a new London import, delivers lavishly on the promise of a rom-com: laughter, escape and fantasy.

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Theater as a Safe Space? ‘Practice’ Demolishes That Idea. by Tim Teeman

Nazareth Hassan’s darkly witty satire follows an imperious director who pushes his eager actors to extremes.

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In a Reimagined ‘Our Town,’ Dance and Poetry Run for the Woods by Gia Kourlas

In “My Town,” Jack Ferver’s one-person take on the Wilder classic with hints of “Wisconsin Death Trip,” movement and storytelling are deftly intertwined.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Meryl Streep and More Stars Toast Tom Hanks in ‘This World of Tomorrow’ by Sarah Bahr and Ye Fan

A crowd that included Meryl Streep, Martin Short and Steve Martin packed the Shed for the actor’s new show, “This World of Tomorrow.”

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The Debate Over Colorblind Casting Isn’t Settled After All by Jesse Green

A Black Hedda Gabler on film and a white Korean robot onstage are sending mixed signals about the status of cultural diversity and representation.

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This Play Recruited Actors With Anorexia. Was That Ethical? by Alex Marshall

Some psychologists and parents argued that it risked glamorizing the condition, but one performer described the experience as empowering: “Onstage, I can be who I really am.”

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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

‘This World of Tomorrow’ Review: Tom Hanks Is Back in Town by Laura Collins-Hughes

The movie star plays a man from the future at the 1939 New York World’s Fair in an adaptation of some of his stories. Kelli O’Hara shines as his love interest.

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Those Little Chimes That Say ‘Please Take Your Seat’ by Michaela Towfighi and Vincent Alban

At New York’s performing arts venues, herding audiences is a melodic mission.

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‘Meet the Cartozians’ Review: Who Gets to Be White in America? by Juan A. Ramírez

Talene Monahon’s captivating play uses a 1925 court decision to explore what identity means to Armenians here (a certain reality TV star included).

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‘Lahpphon/Lost’ Was a Hit in Oslo. But in the Sami Heartland? by Lisa Abend and David B. Torch

The Norwegian National Ballet was nervous about taking a new work about a Sami uprising to the area where the historical event took place.

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In This Show, Four Years of High School Unfold Over Five Hours by Douglas Corzine

The characters in Else Went’s quiet Off Broadway debut at the Public Theater try to make sense of the world while coming-of-age in the early aughts.

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‘25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ Review: A Delightful Competition by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Adult actors play fierce middle-school spellers in a wonderful revival of William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s musical.

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Monday, November 17, 2025

What Should I Do With My Playbill? by Michael Paulson

Readers ask about the most environmentally friendly thing to do with an unwanted program. And by the way, why is it always yellow?

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Broadway’s Radical ‘Oedipus,’ With Mark Strong and Lesley Manville by Joshua Barone

Icke dusts off the classics the way a restorer brightens an old master painting. His latest project stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville.

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A Fats Waller Musical All But Disappeared (Until Now) by Will Friedwald

The jazz pianist and composer wrote music for the World War II hit “Early to Bed,” which was running when he died at 39. Two concerts will bring its songs back to life.

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