Theater critic Jose Solís surveys several productions of the holiday classic
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Broadway’s love affair with the mixtape
The fall season has given us three wildly different case studies in Broadway’s pop/rock hybrids.
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An epic new Broadway play on modern gay life asks: can we love ourselves?
’The Inheritance’ is a portrait of millennial gay male life in New York City, and it is a picture both celebratory and cautionary.
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The true story of whistleblower Reality Winner’s interrogation comes to life in ‘Is This a Room’
The play is a verbatim reenactment of the F.B.I.’s hour-long interrogation of the Georgia intelligence contractor who was arrested for leaking classified documents.
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Playwright Will Arbery on the restless Catholics of ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’
Arbery has written a play based on many years of quietly watching and listening to his fellow Catholics and conservatives.
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How Playwrights Horizons is shining a spotlight on God off Broadway
The theater has been a place where New York theatergoers can get an above-average dose of plays on spiritual themes.
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‘Porgy and Bess’ and the power of representation
Written in the 1930s, George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” has always been controversial.
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Review: ‘Slave Play’ grapples with a poisonous legacy
In his sensational new play, Jeremy O. Harris posits that racism may poison our most intimate relationships.
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‘Novenas for a Lost Hospital’: An elegy for a place of sickness and grace
A new Off-Broadway play dives into the history of St. Vincent’s in Greenwich Village.
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The first Filipino-American musical examines faith and spiritual healing
Jose Solís talks to Jessica Hagedorn and composer Fabián Obispo, the creators behind the new musical, “Felix Starro,” the very first Filipino-American musical produced in the United States.