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A united community is a powerful force that can be used for healing or destruction.
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These shows range from revitalizing revivals to redemptive restagings of undervalued gems.
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The show's pizzazz may be enough to help it survive in a turbulent Broadway landscape.
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Thomas Ostermeier's production reclaims Hamlet, fleetingly but full-heartedly, for all of us.
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Watching the play is squirmingly uncomfortable in a way that reading Hanya Yanagihara's book never is.
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At its most arresting, american (tele)visions stirs its characters' guiding emotions into a frenzied mixture that matches and mirrors the overwhelming intensity of the on-stage screens.
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If this Richard III has a guiding concept, it's in the dismantling and displacement of Shakespeare's treatment of disability.
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Let's hope Broadway's most racially diverse season will be capped by a ceremony that fully celebrates that sea change.
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Everything about this production is handled with a light, inviting touch.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop nudges the musical theater form in a startling new direction.
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The omnipresent horror of what we so quickly understand to be happening diminishes the play's proximity to pleasure more than it should.
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By reducing the play's grandeur to the scope of a lightly staged radio play, words become the principal protagonist.
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In Birthday Candles, tragedy and trauma have been rushed off stage with the ring of another gong and another year gone.
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Tragic timeliness and timelessness doesn't make up for the scrawniness of Richard Greenberg's play.
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Even if Help never entirely sheds its essayistic origins, the premise of finding poetry in personal scholarship is consistently compelling.
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The play's deliberate repetitions reveal how its characters rely upon the rituals they share to make meaning of a fractured world.
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This slightly zany production sells the show's intelligent warmth with a persuasiveness to rival Harold Hill himself.
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The show is massively successful at demonstrating that Jackson was an extraordinary artist putting forth extraordinary art.
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Eugene O'Neill's play isn't about all of us, as much as this production might lean into the allure of universality.
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The best theater of 2021 hasn't just been a treat but a privilege to witness.
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This production squarely delivers as a potent tribute to the words and music of Stephen Sondheim.
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The Visitor is ultimately about powerlessness, a fable of despair that illustrates how nothing changes if only one man does.
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The 2021 Tony Awards, honoring the Broadway season that was cut short by the Covid pandemic, are all about memory.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 03:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 21, 2021
If the play's first half shows America as distilled dystopia, that focus only sharpens after an ambitious structural shift.
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Merry Wives distills what legacy we need most from Shakespeare now and what art we need most from each other.
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Fruma-Sarah's slim premise isn't quite sturdy enough to allow its more substantial aspirations to take flight.
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Enemy of the People could do more to challenge the assumption that majority votes work the way they're supposed to.
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The phantoms of 2020 resurface with shivery impact throughout.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 04:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 13, 2021
The festival is now part-streaming and part-live on a variety of platforms.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 03:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2020
With this version of West Side Story, van Hove seems barely interested in the show itself.
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SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 08:21PM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2020
It's hard to think of too many other productions that strive to stretch a Shakespeare play so far beyond its natural course.
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