Theater
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Broadway Box Office Holds Steady Despite Coronavirus Scare, But Disney Musicals Take a Hit
“The Lion King,” “Aladdin” and “Frozen” all saw significant drops in ticket sales for week ending March 8
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Scott Rudin Offers $50 Tickets to Broadway’s ‘Book of Mormon,’ ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ to Lure Coronavirus-Scared Theatergoers
“I can’t pretend that great theater is the panacea we’ve been waiting for, but in the meantime I think we could all use a few hours away from the evening news,” producer says
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‘Endlings’ Theater Review: A Play About Writing a Play Gets Tangled Up in the Seaweed
Celine Song’s absurdist comedy mixes Edward Albee dramas with Esther Williams movies
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‘Unknown Soldier’ Theater Review: Michael Friedman’s Musical Explores the Fuzziness of Memory
Estelle Parsons stands out in a new musical by a composer who tragically died too young
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‘Girl From the North Country’ Broadway Review: Bob Dylan’s Songs Get Tangled Up in Melodrama
Conor McPherson stuffs so much lurid drama into a Duluth boarding house that this property needs to be condemned
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‘Coal Country’ Theater Review: A Steve Earle Musical With a Huge Carbon Footprint
A new show digs coal because, hey, somebody’s got to do life’s dirty work and destroy the planet
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‘The Perplexed’ Theater Review: Why the Really Rich Don’t Really Deserve America
Richard Greenberg skewers the wealthy, as well as his put-upon audience
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‘The Hot Wing King’ Theater Review: Katori Hall Blends Sticky Schmaltz With Spicy Sauce
Playwright mixes “The Boys in the Band” and “Torch Song Trilogy” with a cooking show. More than one character gets indigestion
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‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown’ Theater Review: Meredith Willson’s Classic Musical Gets a Major Rewrite
Beth Malone’s heroine is now a paragon of early-20th-century progressivism
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‘We’re Gonna Die’ Theater Review: Quick, Pull the Plug Now!
Young Jean Lee tells us the obvious over and over again in a show that’s good only because it’s very short
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‘Dana H.’ Theater Review: She Lip Syncs Her Way to Hell and Back
Lucas Hnath adapts interviews conducted with his mother, once captive to the Aryan Brotherhood. The result is harrowing
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‘The Headlands’ Theater Review: A Classic Film Noir Finds Its Way to the Stage
Christopher Chen’s new mystery intrigues with its many twists and turns. If only he had put a more cynical sleuth at its center
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‘All the Natalie Portmans’ Theater Review: The Oscar Winner Fuels a Teenager’s Fantasies
C.A. Johnson’s new drama is driven by Kara Young’s terrific performance. Less wonderful is the “Black Swan” star
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‘Cambodian Rock Band’ Theater Review: A Fresh Look at the Khmer Rouge That Oozes Suspense
Lauren Yee’s play explores the atrocities of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge with a narrator who’s as funny as he is wicked and warped
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‘West Side Story’ Broadway Review: Will Ivo van Hove’s Cinematic Revival Upstage Steven Spielberg?
The classic musical about the Sharks and the Jets has never been tougher or better