Theater
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10 Worst Theater Productions of 2017: From Michael Moore to ‘Amelie’ (Photos)
TheWrap Best & Worst 2017: Plus, David Mamet and John Patrick Shanley continue to plummet
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‘Farinelli and the King’ Broadway Review: Handel Upstages Mark Rylance
The actor puts his full arsenal of mannerisms on display to prevent countertenor Iestyn Davies from stealing the show
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‘The Children’ Broadway Review: How to Cope After a Nuclear Meltdown
Lucy Kirkwood has written a Big Issue play that recalls Martin McDonagh and Rod Serling, but goes to a much scarier place
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‘Describe the Night’ Theater Review: Delivering the Putin Backstory in a Grand Fashion
A play about totalitarianism and thought control could be painfully dreary in a Soviet sort of way. Rajiv Joseph’s flair for grand soap opera makes his three-hour play anything but
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‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Broadway Review: Bouncy Tunes Keep Soggy Book Afloat
New show takes a less literal approach to its animated source material than “Shrek” or other recent family musicals
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‘Once on This Island’ Broadway Review: A Middling Musical Revival About a Long-Suffering Woman
What this put-upon heroine really needs is a someone named Gloria Allred
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‘Downtown Race Riot’ Theater Review: Chloe Sevigny Mixes Heroin and Mother Love
Sevigny’s portrayal of an often outrageous mother slaps an otherwise flaccid drama into shape
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‘The Parisian Woman’ Broadway Review: Uma Thurman Stirs Up Political Trouble in D.C.
“House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon updates his 2013 play to the era of Trump. And once again, Trump overshadows everything else
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‘Meteor Shower’ Broadway Review: Amy Schumer Sizzles, Steve Martin Fizzles
Schumer and Martin are not a match made in the heavens
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‘Harry Clarke’ Theater Review: Billy Crudup Visits a Patricia Highsmith Landscape
With his very erotic new thriller, David Cale adds sex where the author of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” put murder
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‘The Wolves’ Theater Review: What Happens When Young Women Reveal Their Inner Animal
Teenage empathy and competition spill out all over the AstroTurf in Sarah DeLappe’s amazing debut play
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‘School Girls’ Theater Review: How Tina Fey Inspired a Play Set in Ghana
Jocelyn Bioh’s new comedy shows how students on the other side of the world garble and digest American pop culture.
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‘Latin History for Morons’ Broadway Review: John Leguizamo Explains It All
Leguizamo turns our perceptions inside out, whether it’s about a mother’s funky leftovers or a nation’s mass genocide
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‘The Band’s Visit’ Broadway Review: Tony Shalhoub Leads Egyptian Musicians Into Israel
David Yazbek and Itamar Moses take the unlikely source material of Eran Kolirin’s 2007 film to deliver 2016’s best new musical
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‘Office Hour’ Theater Review: Portrait of a Would-Be Campus Assassin in Under 90 Minutes
Dramatic license should be revoked in Julia Cho’s new trolling-for-victims drama
