Theater
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‘Birthday Candles’ Broadway Review: Debra Messing Bakes a Cake and Ages Ungracefully
Playwright Noah Haidle writes a high-concept tear-jerker
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‘Suffs’ Off Broadway Review: Shaina Taub Pulls a Lin-Manuel Miranda With Tour-de-Force Suffragette Musical
Taub wears four musical-theater hats with real flair
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‘Take Me Out’ Broadway Review: Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams Hit It Out of the Ballpark
Terrific performances make Richard Greenberg’s play worth a second look
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‘Paradise Square’ Broadway Review: Call Her Madam, or Return of the Happy Hookers
A new musical finds much to admire in the oldest profession
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‘Plaza Suite’ Broadway Review: Sarah Jessica Parker Toils While Matthew Broderick Coasts
The Neil Simon comeback does not begin here
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‘Confederates’ Off Broadway Review: Dominique Morisseau Suggests College Is the New Plantation
Playwright delivers a lecture on racism in record time
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Tony Awards Return to CBS and Paramount+ in June for First Live Coast-to-Coast Broadcast
The 75th annual ceremony will mark the best of Broadway in a dual broadcast-streaming format
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‘The Chinese Lady’ Off Broadway Review: A Forgotten Immigrant in 19th-Century America Takes Center Stage
Lloyd Suh’s play puts a spotlight on a most unusual real-life figure
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Pamela Anderson to Make Broadway Debut as Roxie Hart in ‘Chicago’
The actress will join the cast of “Chicago” in April at the Ambassador Theatre
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‘Black No More’ Off Broadway Review: A New Musical Declaws a Classic Book
John Ridley, Tariq Trotter, Scott Elliott and Bill T. Jones wrestle with George S. Schuyler’s difficult legacy
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‘Wolf Play’ Off Broadway Review: An Internet-Era Custody Battle Over an Adopted Boy
Hansol Jung’s new play examines the growing phenomenon of adoption by Yahoo!
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‘Tambo & Bones’ Off Broadway Review: The Minstrel Show’s Past, Present and Future
Dave Harris’ new show-concert-lecture imagines the world without the gaze of white people
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‘Prayer for the French Republic’ Off Broadway Review: A Tour de Force Look at a Jewish Family in Paris
Joshua Harmon’s new play skewers the land of the perfect croissant
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‘MJ’ Broadway Review: Michael Jackson Musical Is Less Thriller Than Dangerous
There are villains in Lynn Nottage’s new musical “MJ,” however, they are not Michael Jackson
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‘Intimate Apparel’ Off Broadway Review: Lynn Nottage’s Seamstress Now Sings
Ricky Ian Gordon improves a modern classic with his extraordinary operatic score
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By Robert Hofler