A new broadway play creates a docu-mythologia around the disappearance and murders of more than 700 women in Ciudad Juárez since 1993.
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A backstage look at Hamilton, the musical phenomenon
It’s been 10 years since Lin-Manuel Miranda took his shot and performed at the White House Poetry Jam. We talk to Amber White, stage manager at “Hamilton” to learn more about the hit musical.
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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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Reviewing ‘Death of a Salesman’ and ‘J.B.’
Our reviewers were not enthusiastic about two award-winning plays.
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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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A new production tells the story of Father Tolton, the slave who became a priest
“His story is so triumphal in the sense of what he was eventually able to do,” responding to persecution and oppression with an outpouring of love.
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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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Atticus Finch and Howard Beale finally get their Broadway moment
Two starry new Broadway productions have no qualms about speaking their mind.