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  1. fall preview 2014
    71 Plays Premiering This FallFeaturing Tavi Gevinson, James Earl Jones, Hugh Jackman, and more.
    By Rebecca Milzoff
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    Theater Review: Imelda Is More Than a Woman in Here Lies LoveA disco musical shouldn’t work. But …
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Red-Eye to Havre de GraceWhile I pondered.
    By Jesse Green
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    Jesse Green on the Tony Nominators’ Not-Quite-SnubsOmissions and surprises.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Michelle Williams and Alan Cumming Come (Back) to the CabaretIs the current revival of the revisal of the reimagining of the great work any good?
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Casa ValentinaThough many recent shows involve cross-dressing, it’s the only play that really focuses on the phenomenon.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Hedwig and the Angry Inch“Stipulated: It’s still terrifically smart.”
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: The Velocity of AutumnStarring Estelle Parsons as an elderly woman who barricades herself in a brownstone.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: In Violet, an Unlovely Accident Yields a Lovely Musical“Great resonance and beauty and joy.”
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: The Cripple of InishmaanA near-perfect revival of Martin McDonagh’s play.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: The Second Life of Act One“Too mild for the acolytes and too credulous for me.”
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: James Franco in Of Mice and MenWhich way did he go?
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Steven Soderbergh’s The LibraryAt the Public Theater.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: How Much Can Audra McDonald Sound Like Billie Holiday?Just enough, as it turns out.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Misfires in Bullets Over Broadway“As musical comedy goes, it’s neither.”
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: A Raisin in the SunDenzel Washington is electric.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: The Happy Return of The Most Happy FellaEncores! brings back a great one.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: What’s Your Damage, Heathers: The Musical?Why see this? Because you’re an idiot.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: If/Then“Menzel sings beyond anyone’s idea of reasonable vocal or emotional limits, and basically blows the roof of the theater.”
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Mothers and SonsTyne Daly brings out her ferocity.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: This Time, Less Miz Is (Slightly) MoreIt is the music of a people who will not be slaves again.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: A Grim Tales From Red Vienna“A jumbled soap opera with no discernable point of view.”
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Appropriate Explains Too Much and Says Too Little“Jacobs-Jenkins wants things both ways and ends up with neither.”
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Why Rocky Doesn’t Fly NowBack down the steps.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Will Eno Stages The Open HouseAlbee, seen and raised.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Cranston (and Lyndon) in the Middle, in All the WayFrom Austin to Broadway.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: A Fast-Moving Antony and Cleopatra“What started as a study of passionate love between great equals winds up as a count-the-corpses Grand Guignol.”
    By Jesse Green
  28. Review: The Joys of Terrible Theater, Celebrated in Stage Kiss“A gift and a rarity.”
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: A Doll’s House, Blessedly Un-Reinvented“Neither the director nor time itself has diminished the effectiveness.”
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: This Kung Fu Lacks KickNot enough art in these martial arts.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: A Second Turn After Midnight With k.d. langThe years have done nothing to curdle that ultracreamy voice.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: A Satisfying Dinner With Friends“Though Dinner with Friends is funny throughout, it is too meditative to be called a comedy.”
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: The Successful Failure of The Tribute Artist“Busch falls back on the old stuff when he’s stuck.”
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Trying to Breathe Life Into Little Me“It’s barely a musical at all.”
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Bronx Bombers Makes Too Many Wrong MistakesSwing and a miss.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Queen of the Night“You smell like desire.” I do?
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Painful IntimacyDon’t sit too close.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Stop Hitting Yourself Tries to Make It in the Big CityIf Eliza Doolittle were from Occupy Wall Street.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Outside Mullingar Is a Shamrock ShakeAs authentically Irish as a Shamrock Shake.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Dr. Rossellini’s Green Porno“She’s the best professor you could ever imagine. So what if the result has no business calling itself a play?” 
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: The Rime of the Ancient MarinerPlus Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: On The (curious case of the) Watson IntelligenceWhere IBM meets Bell Labs and Sherlock Holmes, and the resulting product gets up off the table and starts talking.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: An Unbeautiful Chéri“Hours’ worth of longueurs, in a show that lasts 65 minutes.”
    By Jesse Green
  44. Theater Review: What’s Burt Bacharach All About?A revue with a clue.
    By Jesse Green
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    Reviews: Pairing Up Waiting for Godot and No Man’s Land“The mystery of deep acting at work.”
    By Jesse Green
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    Stage Reviews: Macbeth, The Commons of PensacolaOne very old playwright, one very new one.
    By Jesse Green
  47. Theater: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder“Each faces distinct and comically awful demises.”
    By Jesse Green
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    Reviews: Little Miss Sunshine, A Bed and a Chair“The air starts to leak out of Little Miss Sunshine’s story immediately after the opening number. “
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Billy Crystal’s Nostalgia for 700 SundaysHilarity, bathos, and his grandfather’s gas.
    By Jesse Green
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    Theater Review: Domesticated“Part of what’s hilarious about Domesticated is the way the playwright not only goes there, but stacks the deck on arrival.”
    By Jesse Green
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