Theater
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‘1776’ Broadway Review: Even Male Drag Can’t Rescue This Musical Clunker
It’s a show about the American Revolution that makes you root for the British
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‘I’m Revolting’ Off Broadway Review: Hell Is Other People in a Hospital Waiting Room
Playwright Gracie Gardner’s drama shows promise but mostly just kills time
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Charles Fuller, Pulitzer-Winning, Oscar-Nominated ‘A Soldier’s Play’ Playwright, Dies at 83
The play was adapted into the 1984 film “A Soldier’s Story” starring Howard E. Rollins Jr., Denzel Washington and David Alan Grier
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‘Funny Girl’ Broadway Review: Lea Michele Brings the Diva But Not the Laughs
The “Glee” star returns to the theater in that Barbra Streisand role
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‘Leopoldstadt’ Broadway Review: Tom Stoppard Remembers the Holocaust in Vivid Detail
With a cast of 38 actors, the playwright covers over half a century of anti-Semitism in Old Vienna
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‘Baldwin & Buckley at Cambridge’ Off Broadway Review: The Great Debate Loses Some of Its Bite
James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. continue to argue about dreams and race in America
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‘American (Tele)visions’ Off Broadway Review: Why the Tube Is Bad for Our Health
Victor I. Cazares’s new play makes a habit of repeating the obvious
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‘Weightless’ Off Broadway Review: The Kilbanes Give 2 Mythic Greek Sisters an Indie-Rock Lift
The Bay Area duo Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses have crafted one of the best new musicals in recent memory
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Scott Rudin and Broadway Ad Agency Settle $6.3 Million Lawsuit Over Alleged Unpaid Fees
A company called SpotCo sued the producer in 2020
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‘This Beautiful Future’ Off Broadway Review: Karaoke Perks Up a Doomed WWII-Era Love Story
Rita Kalnejais imagines a sappy alternate reality for a Nazi soldier and his French traitor girlfriend
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‘Phantom of the Opera’ to End Broadway Run After 35 Years
The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical has been seen by 19.8 million people and grossed $1.3 billion on the Great White Way
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Common to Make Broadway Debut in Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’
The Second Stage Theater production from playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis could get the Emmy, Grammy and Oscar winner his coveted EGOT status
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‘Remember This’ Off Broadway Review: David Strathairn Proves Bearing Witness Can Be Heroic
The actor stars as Jan Karski, a Polish diplomat who delivered first-hand accounts of the Holocaust to the Allies
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Florian Zeller to Write and Direct Series Adaptation of Tony-Winning Play ‘The Lehman Trilogy’
The filmmaker behind “The Father” and “The Son” will also produce
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Hugh Jackman’s ‘The Music Man’ Revival to Close on Broadway Jan. 1
Jackman and costar Sutton Foster will have played 358 regular shows by the time it concludes