Theater
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MoviePass to Shutdown Indefinitely on Sept. 14
Parent company Helios and Matheson is exploring a sale of MoviePass and other assets
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‘American Moor’ Theater Review: An Actor Confronts Othello – and a Fraught History With White Directors
in his fiery new play, Keith Hamilton Cobb unleashes on everything when told how to play Othello
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‘Betrayal’ Broadway Review: Tom Hiddleston Gives a Master Class in Minimalism
The actor takes the play’s big moments and makes them explode by underplaying them in this revival of the Harold Pinter classic
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‘Hercules’ Theater Review: Can Disney’s Animated Hero Go the Distance to Broadway?
Alan Menken adds a few new songs to his 1997 film score for this Public Theater production
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‘Make Believe’ Theater Review: Why Childhood Isn’t for Sissies
The kids are not all right in Bess Wohl’s arresting new play
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‘Sea Wall/A Life’ Broadway Review: Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge Go Solo Together
Revivals of minor plays by Nick Payne and Simon Stephens get the star treatment
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‘Coriolanus’ Theater Review: Jonathan Cake Plays Shakespeare’s Ultimate Mama’s Boy
The actor’s overly broad take on the Bard’s antihero is out of sync with the rest of Daniel Sullivan’s production
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‘Broadway Bounty Hunter’ Theater Review: Annie Golden Plays a Badass Annie Golden to Perfection
The “Orange Is the New Black” actress survives drug lords and gunfire, as well as her material
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‘Mojada’ Theater Review: Euripides’ Medea Now Lives and Murders in Queens
Luis Alfaro continues his provocative exploration of the classics by turning a spurned mother into a desperate Mexican woman
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‘The Rolling Stone’ Theater Review: The Fight Goes on for Gay Ugandans
Chris Urch’s drama examines extreme homophobia in Africa, only to find that family is more important than freedom
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Idris Elba Denies Plagiarism Claims From 2 Former Writers on His Play, ‘Tree’
“We wanted to offer an opportunity to support these new writers … the outcome is an accusation of plagiarism and discrimination,” actor says
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‘We’re Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time’ Theater Review: Memoir as Therapy
David Cale looks back a tragedy in his family and sings about it
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‘Toni Stone’ Theater Review: A Magnificent Drama About the First Woman to Play Pro Baseball
Lydia R. Diamond’s fine fact-based new play profiles an amazing athlete and trailblazer
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‘A Strange Loop’ Theater Review: Tyler Perry Won’t Be Optioning This Musical
The man behind Madea gets roasted in Michael R. Jackson’s hilarious new musical
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‘The Secret Life of Bees’ Theater Review: Duncan Sheik’s Musical Honey Pot Runneth Over
Lynn Nottage and Duncan Sheik’s stage adaptation of the best-selling novel and movie is faithful to a fault
