Theater
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‘Hand to God’ Theater Review: Humans Are Here Simply to Service Their Puppets
Playwright Robert Askins will probably take this as a compliment, but by far the most interesting characters are the puppets
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‘Skylight’ Theater Review: Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy Bring New Fire to an Old Romance
Nighy’s performance is deliriously over the top, and the night’s biggest laugh comes when Mulligan does a spot-on impersonation of her co-star
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‘The Heidi Chronicles’ Theater Review: Elisabeth Moss Brings a Slightly Mad Woman Back to Broadway
“Mad Men” actress and co-star Jason Biggs effectively anchor a revival that finds others in the cast auditioning for “Fashion Police”
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‘Posterity’ Theater Review: ‘I Am My Own Wife’ Author Wrestles With the Legacy of Another Playwright
Art rarely survives when it is delivered with a capital A. Make that several capital A’s in the case of Doug Wright’s new play about Henrik Ibsen
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‘On the Twentieth Century’ Theater Review: Kristin Chenoweth Is Back on the Fast Track
Actress retires her pipsqueak Dietrich, and the show’s four porters impersonate a train so well you can almost get high on their smoke
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‘The Audience’ Theater Review: Helen Mirren, Peter Morgan Dust Off Their Queen
Morgan’s new play about Queen Elizabeth II makes the best case ever for ridding the United Kingdom of the royal family
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‘Fish in the Dark’ Theater Review: Larry David Goes for Vintage Laughs in Broadway Debut
Devotees of the “Seinfeld” co-creator will not be disappointed, even though his madcap story harks back to Broadway’s golden age
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‘The Mystery of Love & Sex’ Theater Review: Diane Lane, Tony Shalhoub Hook Up With ‘Masters of Sex’ Writer
Bathsheba Doran gives us not one but two coming-out-of-the-closet storylines
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‘Brooklynite’ Theater Review: Superhero Tale Feels Like an After-School Special
The “X-Men” story will bore the “High School Musical” set, but Peter Lerman’s score recalls the work of “Sesame Street” legend Joe Raposo
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‘Lives of the Saints’ Theater Review: ‘Venus in Fur’ Author Delivers Cheap Laughs and Low-Key Whimsy
“SNL” performs these kinds of skits in half the time and actually makes them topical, which is more than can be said for this David Ives comedy
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‘Verite’ Theater Review: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Writer’s Play Is Like a Network TV Pilot
Writer/producer Nick Jones’ send-up of the book publishing business isn’t a play — it’s not even HBO, Netflix or FX
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‘Rasheeda Speaking’ Theater Review: Dianne Wiest and Tonya Pinkins Face Off in Tense Office Comedy
Cynthia Nixon referees in her auspicious directorial debut, making sure not to turn anyone into an obvious villain
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‘A Month in the Country’ Theater Review: Taylor Schilling and Peter Dinklage Offer Up 2 Hours in the Hamptons
Ivan Turgenev’s characters aren’t in love with who they’re supposed to be, and yet, they’re terribly civilized about it
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‘Let the Right One In’ Theater Review: Eli’s Back and She’s Learned a New Trick From Carrie
This little vampire makes you believe she can bite, wrestle and choke a man twice her size to death. It’s like a trip back to the Grand Guignol and just as bloody
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‘I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard’ Theater Review: Halley Feiffer Writes Her Daddy Dearest Play
The drama can be described as “Whiplash” meets “The Heiress,” as the writer goes straight for the jugular through the heart
