MOST RECENT ARTICLES BY:

Helen Shaw

@helen_e_shaw

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    At the Armory, Judgment Day Shows Its Cast No MercyAnd in Brooklyn, Jack lands in a congenial new space.
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    The Thin Place Is a Horror Drama That You Think You’ll Forget, Then Won’tAt the edge between reality and something else.
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    Harry Connick Jr. Brings the Tick-Tick-Tick of Cole Porter Back to BroadwayAlso some awkward theatrics—but the core of the evening is the de-lovely band and that voice.
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    Theater Review: Greater Clements, a Small-Town Drama Without the TownDown into the midwestern darkness, at a little spot that’s about to disappear from the map.
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    Theater Review: Daniel Kitson Keeps Only Things That Spark No Joy WhatsoeverA monologuist who can’t stop interrogating himself and us.
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    Theater Review: Jagged Little Pill Is Missing the Essence of AlanisWasn’t she iconic?
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    The Wild Invention of Fefu and Her Friends and A Bright Room Called DayFornés and Kushner, wild inventors both.
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    The Understated Charms of The Underlying Chris, and a High-Decibel CrucibleWill Eno, produced quietly, and Arthur Miller, not.
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    Theater Review: A Christmas Carol Gets a Cute Scrooge With Daddy IssuesIs this the Ghost of Broadway Future?
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    What Makes the Man: Édouard Louis’s Autobiographies, OnstageHistory of Violence at St. Ann’s and The End of Eddy at BAM.
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    Tragedy Plus Comedy Plus Melodrama in The InheritanceThree hours that are impossibly absorbing, and then three and a half more.
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    Theater Review: Electric Jolts From a Jukebox in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical“The show rests on three pillars: the excellent production, the most galvanizing catalogue in showbiz, and Adrienne Warren.”
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    Theater Review: A Cyrano Without the Nose? Even If He Sings?Peter Dinklage plays the secret romancer in this musical adaptation.
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    Theater: The Slow Launch and Rapid Rise of Dr. Ride’s American Beach HousePlus Radiohole’s Now Serving.
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    Theater Review: Alas, Poor HamnetShakespeare’s son, who died at 11, now has a smartphone.
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    Theater Review: Theresa Rebeck’s Seared Is a Pretty Light MealBackstage at a restaurant, romcom devices at play.
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    John Doyle’s Blankie Macbeth and Zawe Ashton’s Memorable for all the women…John Doyle’s severity, now with security blankets.
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    Theater Review: What If They Went to Moscow?, Where Stage and Screen MeldThe Man With a Movie Camera would’ve been astonished.
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    Fire Burn and Fryolator Bubble: Scotland, PA, Is a McNugget-Size MacbethNot lovin’ it.
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    Theater Review: 43 Years On, for colored girls… Returns to the PublicNtozake Shange’s groundbreaking dance-play-poetry hybrid, staged anew a year after her death.
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    There Is a Party, Everyone Is There: David Byrne’s American Utopia on Broadway’American Utopia’ is “a concert so beautifully and completely choreographed that it’s also a dance piece.”
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    Theater Review: The Sound Inside Just Keeps Looking at ItselfAdam Rapp’s play, starring Mary-Louise Parker, can’t get out of its own head.
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    Theater Review: Little Shop of Horrors Is a Bouquet With BiteA superior combo: Big-Broadway talent, community-theater energy.