For theater fans, the arrival of a new Annie Baker play is cause for celebration.
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Review: ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘The Shark is Broken’ bring movie brands to Broadway
Two new Broadway productions offer case studies in brand extension and fan service.
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Tony winner ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ is the ‘Ted Lasso’ of Broadway
“Kimberly Akimbo” is about two young people who have an incredibly hopeful perspective on life. But it’s also quietly about childhood trauma.
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‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ and ‘The Thanksgiving Play’ take a satirical aim at theater itself
The ambitions of these two comedies could hardly be more disparate, yet the craft employed in both is rooted in similarly precise calibrations of our attention and sympathies.
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‘Parade,’ ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘Camelot’ offer a history lesson on the American musical
Three strong new revivals offer an instructive comparative lens through which to view the form’s development over the decades.
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In ‘Sweeney Todd,’ we see the dark, demonic twin of Jesus’ Passion
In these Lenten and Easter days in which the church celebrates a man whose divinity was revealed in his willingness to sacrifice everything for love, consider “Sweeney Todd” to be that story’s dark, demonic twin.
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Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan bring love and revolution to life in ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’
A lovingly crafted new revival of “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music makes a fresh case for reconsideration of Lorraine Hansberry’s less well-known second play, which followed the classic “A Raisin in the Sun.”
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Broadway’s ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’ uses the hilarious and profane in a restless search for moral clarity
As ever, Stephen Adly Guirgis writes hilarious, profane dialogue and puts his characters in contention over matters both petty and portentous.
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Who is allowed to write about pedophilia?
“Downstate,” Bruce Norris’s new off-Broadway play about a group home for pedophile, raises the question: Who gets to write about pedophilia? And what are they allowed to say?
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A new ballet stars differently abled performers. What could it teach the church about inclusion?
“The Church could welcome more artists by creating more events to showcase the talents within their parishes and to foster artist/patron relationships.”