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Review: In ‘Grey House,’ Broadway Gets an Expert Haunting
A new play about a sisterhood of sorrows brings something scary to the stage, but is delivering shocks and icks enough?
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Alicia Keys Is Making a Musical. Her Own Life Inspired the Story.
The show is a highlight of the Public Theater’s new season, which will also include plays by Suzan-Lori Parks, Itamar Moses, Mary Kathryn Nagle and Ife Olujobi.
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‘Prayer for the French Republic’ Heads to Broadway
The play, which is scheduled to open in January, joins a string of Broadway shows that confront antisemitism in the U.S. and abroad.
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New York Public Library Acquires George C. Wolfe’s Archives
More than 50 boxes of ephemera from the playwright and director’s career include notes on “Angels in America” and research for “Jelly’s Last Jam.”
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Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber to Lead Broadway ‘Doubt’ Revival
The production, presented by the nonprofit Roundabout Theater Company, is to begin performances in February.
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Robin Wagner, Visionary Set Designer of Broadway Hits, Dies at 89
A triple Tony winner, he left a mark in more than 50 productions, including “Hair,” “A Chorus Line,” “On the Twentieth Century” and “The Producers.”
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5 Shows, 94 Actors, 450 Costumes: Emilio Sosa Dresses Broadway
With two Tony Award nominations in a single season, this prolific costume designer lets textiles tell the story.
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Coming to City Center: ‘Pal Joey,’ ‘Titanic’ and the 20th Fall for Dance
Also among next season’s highlights: Encores! revivals of “Once Upon a Mattress” and “Jelly’s Last Jam,” and dance works from Pam Tanowitz and Lyon Opera Ballet.
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Book Review: ‘Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style,’ by Paul Rudnick
Following a neurotic writer and a wealthy aesthete over four bumpy decades, “Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style” is a gay rom-com that tugs at the heart.
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In a City of Monuments, History Lives Onstage and in the Streets
Three new plays at theaters in Washington explore how the past is both erased and inescapable.
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For Lorna Courtney of ‘& Juliet,’ New York Has Always Been Her Stage
From LaGuardia High School to Broadway, this Tony Award-nominated star has traveled many miles on her journey to theater stardom.
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Broadway Musicians Object to David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love’
The show plans to use recorded music instead of a live band, but a labor union says its contract for the theater requires musicians for musicals.
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Rosalind Franklin’s Role in DNA Discovery, Once Ignored, Is Told Anew in Song
“Double Helix,” at Bay Street Theater, illuminates the British scientist’s contributions, which became the basis for James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 breakthrough.
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‘Bernarda’s Daughters’ Review: Sisters Grieve a Father, and a Home
In her adaptation of Lorca, Diane Exavier emphasizes the importance of belonging to a place, and how painful it is to consign memories of it to the grave.
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Review: In ‘Aspects of Love,’ Some Problematic Attachments
A London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s partner-swapping musical is a camp amoral romp. But is this obsession really the same as romance?
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‘Primary Trust’ Review: Sipping Mai Tais, Until Bitter Reality Knocks
In Eboni Booth’s new play, William Jackson Harper performs with astonishing vulnerability as a man alone and adrift.
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‘The Inheritance’ Arrives at a Festival of German Drama
A new production of Matthew López’s seven-hour play was among 10 shows chosen for Theatertreffen, a celebration of the best theater from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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He Made a Show About Grief. She Saw Herself in It.
Audible Theater’s leader and the creator of “Sorry for Your Loss” hope the autobiographical comedy helps others learn to talk about grief.
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Review: In ‘Bees & Honey,’ Love Is Both Sweet and Sticky
In this play by Guadalís Del Carmen, a couple’s shared heritage is integral to their meeting and the ups and downs of their daily relationship.
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Summerworks Festival Opens With “Work Hard Have Fun Make History”
Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks festival opener, written by ruth tang, rages against the machines and examines human alienation.
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