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‘My Neighbour Totoro’ Dominates Olivier Award Nominations
Studio Ghibli’s fantastical movie was an unexpected choice for a stage adaptation. Now, it is up for 9 awards at Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys.
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Review: ‘Letters From Max’ Is a Sacrament of Grief, and a Comedy
The Signature Theater production is based on correspondence between the playwright Sarah Ruhl and a student of hers, who died of cancer at 25.
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‘Fall River Fishing’ Review: So She Dated an Axe Murderer
A casually absurd play about the infamous Lizzie Borden, presented by Bedlam, cleverly undercuts the central dramatic event.
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‘Elyria’ Review: The Past Catches Up to Them, Outside Cleveland
A microcosmic tale of the Indian diaspora, Deepa Purohit’s new play centers on the tangled history of two women and the man in between them.
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‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’ Review: The Sin of Apathy
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star as Village bohemians in a rare revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s indictment of liberal inertia.
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Rattlestick Theater Names Will Davis as Its Next Artistic Director
Davis will be the rare transgender theater artist to lead an Off Broadway nonprofit.
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Review: In ‘With No Fanfare,’ Things Fall Apart
The play, a hit at the Avignon Festival, explores the twists and turns of a breakup through a whimsical mix of musical numbers and dreamlike vignettes.
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Review: ‘Black Odyssey’ Sails Through Black Past and Present
This wine-dark sea threads through Harlem, and its Ulysses, buffeted by the gods, is a soldier fighting in Afghanistan who makes a fatal mistake.
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‘Mama, I Want to Sing!’ Returns for 40th Anniversary
Gospel soul returns to the stage as the long-running musical is revived for Black History Month at El Museo’s El Teatro.
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Alexander Zeldin Brings ‘Love’ to the Park Avenue Armory
The British writer and director Alexander Zeldin is bringing “Love,” a European hit set at a temporary-housing facility, to the Park Avenue Armory.
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Obie Awards Honor ‘English’ as Best New Play
A ceremony for the awards, celebrating work Off and Off Off Broadway, will be held Monday, but organizers decided to announce the winners in advance.
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Forget About Jazz Hands, This Fosse Show Is About Dancin’
“Bob Fosse’s Dancin’,” revived by the director Wayne Cilento, is back on Broadway. Its stars? An eclectic cast of dancers who are anything but machines.
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On Broadway, ‘Bad Cinderella’ Is a Rebel With a Brooklyn Accent
Linedy Genao brings her whole Latina self to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical, which also stars the stage veteran Carolee Carmello as her evil stepmother.
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Four Rising Theater Stars to Watch This Spring
These actors turned playwrights all excavate memories and meaning from their lives in creating these four shows, which arrive in New York in the coming months.
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They Invited Shakespeare to the Cookout. They Got ‘Fat Ham.’
The playwright James Ijames and the director Saheem Ali built a “Hamlet”-inspired play, opening in April on Broadway, around their artistic friendship.
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Adrian Hall, Who Invigorated Regional Theater, Dies at 95
As founding artistic director, he made Trinity Rep in Rhode Island a leader in theatrical innovation. He then made his mark in Dallas as well.
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‘Parade’ Producers Condemn Neo-Nazi Protest at Show About Antisemitism
The show’s star, Ben Platt, said the “ugly and scary” display was a reminder of why they are retelling the story of the lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman in Georgia.
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On London Stages, Finding Something Fresh in Tragedy
New productions of “Medea” and “Phaedra” feature outstanding performances from Sophie Okonedo and Janet McTeer as women pushed to the edge.
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What to See This Spring in NYC: Broadway Shows, Concerts and More
“Life of Pi” and Laura Linney on Broadway, Lise Davidsen at the Met Opera, SZA on tour: Here’s what we’re looking forward to this season.
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Review: Rude T-Shirts and Rude Awakenings in ‘A Bright New Boise’
An early play by Samuel D. Hunter finds the author developing his voice by lending it to the lost souls working at an Idaho Hobby Lobby.
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