Broadway
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‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ Broadway Review: Neil Patrick Harris to the Rescue
The “Goes Wrong” franchise continues with lots of staged deaths and injuries to entertain the kids
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‘Camelot’ Broadway Review: With Aaron Sorkin, What’s Love Got to Do With It?
The Oscar winner’s new book for this musical revival throws up a few romantic roadblocks
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‘Fat Ham’ Broadway Review: Something’s Rotten – and Ripe With Laughs – in North Carolina
James Ijames’ retooling of Shakespeare delivers the funniest Hamlet ever
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‘Bad Cinderella’ Broadway Review: Frankly, She’s Also a Real Brat
Andrew Lloyd Webber struggles with the Disney formula
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‘Smash’ Musical From Producer Steven Spielberg Headed to Broadway
Based on the cult-favorite NBC musical drama, Susan Stroman will direct for the 2024–2025 season
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Streaming Could Help Broadway Bounce Back – but There Are Obstacles in the Great White Way
High production costs, complex rights and hidebound business models are slowing the embrace of digital captures and livestreamed performances
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Why Hollywood’s Money Machine Is Unscathed by the SVB Failure – for Now
Financial institution stocks have been whipsawed and one film-industry vendor had a few scary days getting crews paid – but things could’ve been much worse
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‘Parade’ Broadway Review: Ben Platt Leads a Great Revival of a Modern Classic
Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s musical marches to a different, softer beat
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‘A Doll’s House’ Broadway Review: Jessica Chastain Plays Ibsen’s Nora Sitting Down
Jamie Lloyd’s staging of the classic takes minimalism to the extreme
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Lea Michele Extends ‘Funny Girl’ Broadway Run to September Closing Date
Ramin Karimloo, Jared Grimes and Tovah Feldshuh will also be staying on until the production’s final bow
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‘Pictures From Home’ Broadway Review: Nathan Lane Doesn’t Sing but Acts Up a Storm
Based on Larry Sultan’s acclaimed photo memoir, Sharr White’s new play delivers laughs amid the schmaltz
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10 Worst New York Theater Productions of 2022 (Photos)
TheWrap critic Robert Hofler picks the year’s biggest misfires on stage, from “Almost Famous” to “MJ: The Musical”
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‘The Collaboration’ Broadway Review: Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope Are Warhol and Basquiat in Name Only
The real story of these two artists is far more interesting than what playwright Anthony McCarten concocts
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‘Between Riverside and Crazy’ Review: Common Makes a Subdued Broadway Debut as Stephen McKinley Henderson Shines
The veteran character actor delivers a truly epic lead performance in Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Pulitzer-winning drama
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‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Off Broadway Review: Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe Try to Resuscitate a Sondheim Flop
Director Maria Friedman brings an actorly touch to Stephen Sondheim’s problematic 1981 musical, to mostly good effect