Theater
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‘Bella Bella’ Theater Review: Harvey Fierstein Presents a Trumpian Candidate on the Left
Bella Abzug here has all the depth, nuance, and bluster of the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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‘Is This a Room’ Theater Review: A Staged Interrogation of a Whistleblower Named Reality Winner
Tina Satter staging concerns a forgotten chapter in the inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The bad guy is the heroine
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‘Forbidden Broadway’ Theater Review: Judy Garland Impersonates Renée Zellweger & Other Gems
Musical theater’s favorite parody show returns with brickbats for Ben Platt, Billy Porter, and Lin-Manuel Miranda
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‘The Sound Inside’ Broadway Review: Mary-Louise Parker Writes Up a Storm in Riveting New Drama
Adam Rapp’s new play mesmerizes in its exploration of the creative process
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‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Theater Review: Christian Borle to the Rescue in Jonathan Groff-Led Revival
The actor makes bad behavior grossly appealing. Groff and co-star Tammy Blanchard exude somewhat less comic helium
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How Theater Is Tackling Current Events, From Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton to RBG (Guest Blog)
“The thrill of a current-events play is that it can distill those events into something much more thoughtful and engrossing than mere news,” playwright Doug McGrath says
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‘The Lightning Thief’ Broadway Review: Half-God, Half Mortal Percy Jackson Makes the Leap to Stage Musical
Rick Riordan’s series of young-adult novels is now a Broadway musical, fit for the kids if not the gods
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‘The Rose Tattoo’ Broadway Review: Marisa Tomei Goes Full Fellini
The actress stirs up a storm, kicking Tennessee Williams’s little comedy right off the Gulf Coast
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‘Soft Power’ Theater Review: Hillary Clinton Takes a Chinese Lover in David Henry Hwang’s New Musical
David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori turn “The King and I” upside down and nothing but political nonsense dribbles out
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‘Linda Vista’ Broadway Review: Tracy Letts Delivers a Great TV Pilot Before Getting Nasty
Men can be jerks, and Ian Banford plays one of the biggest in Lett’s new play, which is half sitcom, half dirge
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‘The Wrong Man’ Theater Review: Joshua Henry Is Falsely Accused but to the Right Music
Songwriter Ross Golan makes a major musical-theater debut. What he needs is a new book writer for his sophomore effort
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‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’ Theater Review: It’s Donald Trump v. Pat Buchanan
Will Arbery exposes a wild Roman Catholic cult in his bizarre and very messy new play
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‘Sunday’ Theater Review: ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘King Kong’ Playwright’s New Drama Is Just Awful
Jack Thorne’s follow-up play manages to give young people, as well as Anne Tyler, a bad name
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‘Runboyrun’ and ‘In Old Age’ Theater Review: Nigerian American Immigrants Can’t Shake the Past
Mfoniso Udofia’s new plays center on a woman coping with the legacy of the past — both hers and her husband’s
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‘Derren Brown: Secret’ Broadway Review: When Distraction Is Magic
The British showman is the William Castle of illusionists
