Two new productions on Broadway—“The Hills of California” and ”Our Town”—meditate on theater as a kind of shared imaginative space.
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‘Cabaret’ returns to Broadway: Facing the Nazis’ most diabolical crime on stage
The complicity of ordinary Germans in the Holocaust is the central subject of two shows now running in New York City.
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Stars Jeremy Strong and Steve Carell can’t save Broadway’s ‘An Enemy of the People’ and ‘Uncle Vanya’
Two new Broadway productions cast these two towering figures in sharp relief.
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How dance brings Sufjan Stevens’ music to the next level in ‘Illinoise’
‘Illinoise,’ the new dance-theater piece by choreographer Justin Peck, is as bespoke as Stevens’s carefully composed album.
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‘Doubt’: A classic Catholic play returns to Broadway
It is only two decades old, but “Doubt” already feels like it’s been with us forever.
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Interview: ‘Terce: A Practical Breviary’ composer Heather Christian believes in theater
“Terce: A Practical Breviary” doesn’t feel all that far from a worship experience—at least, what an ideal worship experience might be.
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The big family drama returns to Broadway with ‘Appropriate’ and ‘A Prayer for the French Republic’
For playwrights, family dramas are never just about families.
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Brian Friel’s ‘Translations’ explores the sacred act of naming in colonized Ireland
In “Translations,” Brian Friel’s theatrical masterpiece grapples with how naming affects cultures, identities, relationships and more; something already familiar with the Catholic church.
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Three new shows break the mold of the jukebox musical—for better and for worse
Three new Off-Broadway shows don’t just show us what draws musicians to their chosen medium; they make us hear it, with often bracing effect.
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Stephen Sondheim’s final musical is a satisfying cap to an extraordinary career
Sondheim has left the building, and he lives on only in interpretation and iteration, no less than Shakespeare or Mozart.