Theater
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‘Stranger Things’ Star Gaten Matarazzo and Jordan Fisher Join Josh Groban in Broadway Revival of ‘Sweeney Todd’
Groban and Annaleigh Ashford were previously announced as stars of the Broadway show
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‘Titanique’ Off Broadway Review: A Hilarious Jukebox Musical for Those Who Detest Them
The real object of mockery here is not “Titanic” but Broadway in 2022
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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
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‘Some Like It Hot’ Broadway Review: Billy Wilder’s Movie Classic Gets a Lukewarm Musical Makeover
Songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman score offers witty lyrics and tunes that are peppy, repetitive and loud
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‘Ohio State Murders’ Broadway Review: Audra McDonald Offers a Study in Controlled Rage
Playwright Adrienne Kennedy makes a powerful, very belated Broadway debut
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‘The Far Country’ Off Broadway Review: Lloyd Suh’s Play Explores the Horrors of the Other Ellis Island
Chinese immigrants faced prisonlike conditions and intense interrogations at San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island
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‘Your Own Personal Exegesis’ Off Broadway Review: This Passion Play Is Really Passionate
Organized religion takes a hit in Julia May Jonas’ sly, new comedy
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‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ Off Broadway Review: ‘The Crucible’ Collides With ‘Hocus Pocus’
Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe take the blame in Sarah Ruhl’s new play
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‘A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical’ Review: A Bio-Musical That Tries So Hard, So Hard, So Hard
Will Swenson drops his voice to sub-gravel and dons a Cher tour’s worth of sequins to play the pop-rock legend
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Quentin Oliver Lee, Broadway Performer and Star of ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ Dies of Cancer at 34
Lee was also featured in the Broadway revival of “Caroline, or Change”
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‘Ain’t No Mo” Review: Jordan E. Cooper’s Satire Is the Best New Play on Broadway This Year
The U.S. government makes an offer that some citizens can’t refuse in this astounding new work
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‘Squid Game’ Star Oh Yeong-su Backs Out of Stage Play After Sexual Misconduct Charge
Yeong-su is accused of inappropriately touching a woman’s body in 2017
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‘KPOP’ Broadway Review: A Behind-the-Scenes Musical About Korean Pop – Without BTS
The concert-style show has a pulsing energy but not much plot
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‘The Hours’ Opera Review: Michael Cunningham’s Three Tall Women Now Sing
The wonderful Virginia Woolf triptych brings together RenĂ©e Fleming, Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato
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‘A Christmas Carol’ Broadway Review: Jefferson Mays Dominates a Dark Adaptation of Dickens Classic
Mays plays dozens of roles in a tour-de-force production
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By Robert Hofler