Thursday, July 12, 2018
In Tracy Letts's gripping play, it takes six actors (and a doll) to embody one steely, difficult woman, from infancy to the age of 69.
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In the Berkshires, plays by Bekah Brunstetter and Douglas Carter Beane consider equality in the bakery and the rise of the "wonder homo."
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Adam Rapp's new play, about a Yale professor and a freshman writing student, gets a stunning premiere at the Williamstown Theater Festival.
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The 1965 Lerner and Lane musical has been rewritten every which way to tell its tale of reincarnation. It never works, but oh, those songs!
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A quippy Jesse Tyler Ferguson stars in Jordan Harrison's shapeless look at what happens when the L.G.B.T. alliance starts to turn on itself.
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Her father's in love with a 20-year-old boy toy. Her son is a queer studies major. In Joshua Harmon's new comedy, it's the middle-aged woman who feels left behind.
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A new play transposes Shakespeare's tragedy to a modern high school, where a student with cerebral palsy has his eye on the senior-class presidency.
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Friday, June 1, 2018
Majority rule (mostly). One play per playwright. How we put together the 25 Plays list, and a bid to remember notable writers and favorite works that missed the cut.
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In Dominique Morisseau's new play, Detroit's mayor wants to clear "urban blight," but some black jazzmen say, "We the blight he talkin' about."
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Ain Gordon's new play tells a powerful story of gay life in America from the unusual point of view of a psychiatrist most famous for wearing a mask.
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Even a riveting central performance isn't enough to release the potential of Tennessee Williams's follow-up to "A Streetcar Named Desire."
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Our chief critics offer reaction to the nominations, which were hard on jukebox musicals and "Frozen" but good to "My Fair Lady" and "Carousel."
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Lauren Ambrose stars as a newly empowered flower girl in a gorgeous revival that transforms the classic musical into an ur-text for our #MeToo moment.
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