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Friday, April 24, 2026

The New Masculinity of “DTF St. Louis” by Alexandra Schwartz

The show exists in a strange world where men repeatedly confess their love for each other. Does it make them better people?

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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Rob Reiner Made a New Kind of Fairy Tale by Alexandra Schwartz

The director's great achievement was placing real people, with real senses of humor, into the fantasies of mass culture.

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Monday, April 11, 2022

A "Hamilton" for the Suffrage Movement by Alexandra Schwartz

Shaina Taub's new musical follows Alice Paul's tireless quest to win American women the vote.

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Monday, October 18, 2021

"Is This a Room" and "Chicken & Biscuits" Bring the Unexpected to Broadway by Alexandra Schwartz

A thrilling dramatization of the interrogation of the whistle-blower Reality Winner and a crowd-pleasing family comedy both rise above their pre-Broadway origins.

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Saturday, May 16, 2020

New Yorker reviews streaming theatre: Richard Nelson's "What Do We Need to Talk About?" and Moliere in the Park's "The Misanthrope" by Alexandra Schwartz

A mirror for our times Nelson's play starring MARYANN PLUNKETT is the first great original play of quarantine and HEIDI ARMBRUSTER brings us a bawdy "Arsinoe" in Moliere in the Park's THE MI…

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