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    Death Comes to the Reunion in The ComeuppanceHigh-school friends, pregaming with jungle juice and angst.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Knock-Knock: Grey House Brings Horror Tropes to BroadwayIf you find Laurie Metcalf in a cabin in the woods, don’t go in.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Looking for Connection in Primary Trust and The FearsIsolation is on everyone’s mind.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Monsoon Wedding Is a Lively Party But a Watery Musical“The songs tend to idle in neutral, repeating ideas already established in dialogue, never opening up into something more.”
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Basketball and Debutante Balls in King James and The CotillionPlays about the codes of masculinity and femininity, LeBron and dance steps.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Lorraine Hansberry on Hashtag Activism: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s WindowOscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in her play about fashionable commitment to social change.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    New York, New York Barely Scratches the Surface of New York, New YorkIt doesn’t make it here.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht Find Depth in the Small Scale of Summer, 1976David Auburn just lets them talk, and something great happens.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    The Playing’s the Thing: Sean Hayes Shows Range in Good Night, OscarDelivering quips, piano virtuosity, and a little too much exposition.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Jodie Comer Makes a Winning Case for Prima FacieThe Killing Eve star’s performance gives life to a basic script.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    The Thanksgiving Play’s Satire Runs ShortGood intentions go awry — both in the script and otherwise.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Peter Pan Goes Wrong Never Grows Up (But That’s Okay)Backstage farce with a just enough mild head trauma.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Camelot Is Back, Achieving a Wisp of GloryThe sorcery is gone, and everyone talks too much, but Lerner and Loewe knew their majesty.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    On Broadway, Fat Ham Keeps You at a Distance From the Cookout“Ease is the point, even though it keeps being too easy.”
    By Jackson McHenry
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    White Girl in Danger Is a Bloody, Messy Take on the SoapMichael R. Jackson’s Strange Loop follow-up is a fascinating fiasco.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    At Shucked, the Corniness Is as High as an Elephant’s EyeAnd this musical aspires to nothing more or less complex than that.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Life of Pi Is Best When Its Fangs Are VisibleNeeds more feral tigerishness, less cat-on-your-lap warmth.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    A Sweeney Todd That Leans Into the Great Black PitSexual dynamics and soot dominate the revival.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    If Only Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella Were WorseNeither good nor so bad it’s good.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Dancin’ Slinks Back to Town, Aching to Seduce YouA revised revival of the 1978 revue that goes all out.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Parade Marches Back In, Intent on Its Own RelevanceBen Platt and Micaela Diamond star in the revival of this musical about antisemitism in the Deep South.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    The Harder They Come Tries to Fit Too Much OnstageThe overstuffed Jimmy Cliff musical barely has time for its own songs.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    All in this Together: How to Defend Yourself and The Coast StarlightA classic playwrighting gambit: trap a bunch of people in one small space and brew up some trouble.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Gut-Renovating A Doll’s House With Jessica ChastainSit-down, stripped-down Ibsen.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Better Living Through Chlorophyll in The TreesIf you were a tree, you might want to be this kind.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Love Pulls You CloseAlexander Zeldin’s drama about Londoners in temporary housing comes to New York.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    The Seagull Heads for the ShawangunksParker Posey stars in this update of Chekhov, swapping familiar New York intelligentsia types for the Russian bourgeoisie.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Ritual Healing in Letters From Max and Black OdysseyTwo plays take on existential journeys.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Hellfire at Hobby Lobby in A Bright New BoiseSamuel D. Hunter’s early play returns to the New York stage.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    In The Wanderers, Love Complicated by Page and ScreenA beguiling script and a meta turn by Katie Holmes are let down by a workaday production.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    The Mischievous Wolf Play Has Sharp TeethIt blurs its factual universe into a fictional one. Plus: ‘Cornelia Street’ at the Atlantic.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Pictures From Home, Without Sharp FocusA play based on Larry Sultan’s incisive photos of his parents is a little too warm and soft.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Lucy and Endgame Venture Into Extreme CaretakingThe apocalypse is coming from inside the house.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    The Appointment Is a Fetal Fantasia on National ThemesWhere the unborn sing, dance, and do crowd work.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    When Online Drama Begets Stage DramaSeven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner and Your Sexts Are Shit will have you wondering, yet again, about being extremely online.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Two Kings, Not Much Pleasure: The CollaborationWarhol and Basquiat, painted by numbers.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    King Lear, But Rent Controlled: Between Riverside and CrazyA very New York tale of eviction and inheritance.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Putting the Unsaid at the Center: The Far Country and Des MoinesLloyd Suh and Denis Johnson, in very different ways, try to let the audience fill in the blank spaces.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    What’s to Discuss, Old Friends? Merrily We Roll Along Is Back.Maria Friedman’s revival, starring Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe, makes the grade.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Well, Nobody’s Perfect: Some Like It Hot on BroadwayAn adaptation that has everything going for it except heat.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Adrienne Kennedy Goes Big: Ohio State Murders on BroadwayAudra McDonald performing Adrienne Kennedy is almost everything a production needs. Almost.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    I Am, I Said (I Guess): A Beautiful NoiseIf you can experience a dopamine hit from singing along to “Sweet Caroline” anywhere in America, why is this even happening in the Broadhurst?
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Ain’t No Mo’ Takes a Jubilantly Unrespectable Flight to BroadwayJordan E. Cooper’s satire doesn’t button up in a bigger venue.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    KPOP Offers a Not-Actually-All-Access PassA musical about making it big feels neutered by its own backstage process.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    A Christmas Carol, Heavy on the NightmaresJefferson Mays plays 50 characters, starting with Marley and Scrooge.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    In & Juliet, Verona Goes Pop!Power pop as empowerment, Renaissance Division.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Downstate, at the Limits of EmpathyIn Bruce Norris’s play about registered sex offenders, the characters are humanized but not quite forgiven.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Kimberly Akimbo Skates Uptown, Anagrams IntactThe joyous and quirky show, starring Victoria Clark, glides onto Broadway.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Surreal Humor and Medical Metaphor in You Will Get SickLinda Lavin and Daniel K. Isaac are onstage in a very peculiar caregiver-and-patient relationship.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Onstage, It’s Almost Almost Famous You’ll meet them all again on the long journey to the middle.
    By Jackson McHenry
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