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Rob Weinert-Kendt, an arts journalist and editor of American Theatre magazine, has written for The New York Times and Time Out New York. He writes a blog called The Wicked Stage.
Casey Likes as Marty McFly in ‘Back to the Future’ on Broadway, pictured in a red vest and standing in front of a DeLoreon (photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)
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Rob Weinert-Kendt
Two new Broadway productions offer case studies in brand extension and fan service.
A scene from ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ (photo: Jeremy Daniel)
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Rob Weinert-Kendt
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.
Phillipa Soo (center) and company in Lincoln Center Theater's production of CAMELOT.
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Rob Weinert-Kendt
Three strong new revivals offer an instructive comparative lens through which to view the form’s development over the decades. 
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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.”
Stephen McKinley Henderson, Victor Almanzar and Common in ’Between Riverside and Crazy’ (Joan Marcus).
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Rob Weinert-Kendt
As ever, Stephen Adly Guirgis writes hilarious, profane dialogue and puts his characters in contention over matters both petty and portentous.
Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington in ”The Piano Lesson” (photo: Julieta Cervantes)
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‘Death of a Salesman,’ ‘The Piano Lesson’ and ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ showcase the strivings for Black economic independence and self-determination.
The company of Roundabout Theatre Company's “1776” (photo by Joan Marcus)
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Rob Weinert-Kendt
While Lin-Manuel Miranda’s popular Founding Fathers remix was built for performers of color, “1776” has been retrofitted onto this troupe of talented women.
Will Dagger and Jamie Brewer in Will Arbery’s new play "Corsicana" (photo: Julieta Cervantes)
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Rob Weinert-Kendt
“Corsicana,” named for the small Texas city in which it is set, is odd and stiff—qualities that are only exacerbated by director Sam Gold’s spare, often awkwardly formal staging.
Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga in ‘Macbeth’ (photo: Joan Marcus)
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Rob Weinert-Kendt
Classic plays don’t require updates or new translations to stay fresh, but if they are indeed classics, they can withstand new interpretations.
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Rob Weinert-Kendt
Hard truths spill out in the tentative friendship of two men in Samuel D. Hunter's Off Broadway play, “A Case for the Existence of God.”