This Will Shakespeare is an insecure if well intentioned striver.
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Rob Weinert-Kendt, an arts journalist and editor of American Theatre magazine, has written for The New York Times and Time Out New York.
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‘Gentleman Jack’ tells the story of a 19th century pioneer
The British period genre has been quietly retrofitted to accommodate a gay love story more familiar from our own time.
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Four new Broadway shows attempt to answer the question: What are musicals for?
We live in an age in which new musicals can seemingly be about anything.
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‘Hillary and Clinton’ and ‘Lear’: Upstaging male leaders
In Hnath’s play, Hillary has put all her bets on competence, while Bill unsurprisingly presses her to show more humanity.
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A dynamic and damaged power couple face off in ‘Fosse/Verdon’
These two overachievers needed each other, even or especially when they were not together.
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Keep or abolish the Constitution? A fiery debate commences on Broadway
Heidi Schreck’s new play puts the narrative of her own life in contention with the history of our nation’s founding document.
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The return of Daniel Berrigan’s ‘The Trial of the Catonsville Nine’
The director Jack Cummings III has reimagined the play as a kind of found text, recited and enacted by three Asian American actors.
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‘Rent’: A musical that’s difficult to love
All owe a debt to “Rent,” and I for one am happy to pay it.
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Is ‘Watership Down’ really for kids?
A new Netflix miniseries brings out the story’s aspects of adventure and conflict, with occasionally pulse-pounding results.
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“Mary Poppins Returns,” but what is she doing here?
Disney’s new sequel, “Mary Poppins Returns,” has a big umbrella to fill.