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‘Soft Power’ Theater Review: Hillary Clinton Takes a Chinese Lover in David Henry Hwang’s New Musical
David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori turn “The King and I” upside down and nothing but political nonsense dribbles out
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‘Linda Vista’ Broadway Review: Tracy Letts Delivers a Great TV Pilot Before Getting Nasty
Men can be jerks, and Ian Banford plays one of the biggest in Lett’s new play, which is half sitcom, half dirge
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‘The Wrong Man’ Theater Review: Joshua Henry Is Falsely Accused but to the Right Music
Songwriter Ross Golan makes a major musical-theater debut. What he needs is a new book writer for his sophomore effort
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‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’ Theater Review: It’s Donald Trump v. Pat Buchanan
Will Arbery exposes a wild Roman Catholic cult in his bizarre and very messy new play
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‘Slave Play’ Broadway Review: Jeremy O Harris’ Bold but Uneven Satire About Race Relations
The young playwright’s professional debut is a giant trigger warning in three acts
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‘Almost Famous’ Hits the Stage, But How True Is the New Musical to the Movie?
Cameron Crowe’s semiautobiographical rock ‘n’ roll story is a full-fledged musical on its way to Broadway, and we ask — and answer — a few burning questions
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‘The New Englanders’ Theater Review: A Drama About 2 Gay Dads and Their Biracial Daughter
Jeff Augustin’s smart but underwritten play imagines a different kind of family
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‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ Broadway Review: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Improv Rap Show Hits the Great White Way
But will Miranda be a guest performer at your show?
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‘The Great Society’ Broadway Review: Brian Cox Tackles LBJ in Sequel to ‘All the Way’
Robert Schenkkan’s new historical drama covers the last three years of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency
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Read the Unpublished Cameron Crowe Story That Inspired ‘Almost Famous’
In 1996, before writing the Oscar-winning screenplay, Crowe wrote a magazine article about himself, his mother and rock ‘n’ roll — and as the “Almost Famous” musical is about to open, here is that story for the first time
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‘Antigone’ Theater Review: East Meets West in Japanese Company’s Noh-Inspired Tragedy
A visually spectacular interpretation of Sophocles’ classic washes up at Park Avenue Armory
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‘The Height of the Storm’ Broadway Review: Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
In Florian Zeller’s twisty but deeply moving new play, an aging couple battle the threat of being left alone
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‘Sunday’ Theater Review: ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘King Kong’ Playwright’s New Drama Is Just Awful
Jack Thorne’s follow-up play manages to give young people, as well as Anne Tyler, a bad name
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‘Runboyrun’ and ‘In Old Age’ Theater Review: Nigerian American Immigrants Can’t Shake the Past
Mfoniso Udofia’s new plays center on a woman coping with the legacy of the past — both hers and her husband’s
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Sam Rockwell, Laurence Fishburne to Star in Broadway Revival of ‘American Buffalo’
David Mamet’s 1977 drama will open in April 2020