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Thursday, June 28, 2018
There are shows that find their true best form in concert. "Songs for a New World," which was Jason Robert Brown's first musical, is one of these.
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Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt are just a few of the apparitions in Christina Quintana's bittersweet new comedy about a lesbian wrestling with her Catholic upbringing.
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Monday, June 18, 2018
Natalie Soto and her brother, Christian, joined a training program at Roundabout Theater Company that aims to diversify the ranks of theater workers.
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Certain moments are politically and artistically potent, but most of "Fruit Trilogy," a program of three short plays, is pervaded by a curious flatness.
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In the middle of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" and "Angels in America" are late-afternoon gaps to fill. We offer some ideas to pass the time.
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Antoinette Nwandu's "Pass Over" considers the fate of young black men in a gun-torn city. Its first production caused a stir " and won a fan in Spike Lee.
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Friday, June 8, 2018
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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Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Marina Carr's blistering play seems ideal for this cathartic cultural moment. Its Irish Repertory Theater production is a missed opportunity.
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Thursday, May 10, 2018
Philip Dawkins's play blends realism and campy melodrama as it envisions the fumbling beginnings of an affair between Williams and William Inge
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The show had its premiere on Cape Cod two summers ago. It has been revised, but it retains its primary strengths and its fatal weaknesses.
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Monday, April 16, 2018
Sunday, April 15, 2018
Jason Grote and Marisa Michelson's new musical, set in modern-day New York, deconstructs the Middle Eastern folk tales of "One Thousand and One Nights."
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Monday, April 9, 2018
Friday, April 6, 2018
The Bengsons are a folk-rock duo adapting their personal stories for the stage. But their new show, "The Lucky Ones," posed a painful challenge: "Is it possible to tell the truth kindly?"
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In this Primary Stages production, Sharon Washington recalls how an enchanting period in her family's history was also tinged with pain.
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Friday, March 30, 2018
The movie is beloved. But it also pits girls against girls. How, then, do you make a stage musical that satisfies fans and meets our cultural moment?
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Reality and identity are mutable things in "Distant Observer: Tokyo/New York Correspondence," by Takeshi Kawamura and John Jesurun, at La MaMa.
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Sunday, March 11, 2018
Jeremy J. Kamps's play " a smart but overloaded riff on "The Cherry Orchard" set on a family farm " doesn't quite hit the right accent.
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Jaclyn Backhaus and Andrew Neisler's new play wants to be a collection of stories about fierce women. But it's so packed with plot lines, it only partly succeeds.
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