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  1. theater review
    A Man of No Importance, Larger in MiniatureJim Parsons leads the revival of the Ahrens-Flaherty-McNally musical.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    A One-Dimensional Robert Moses in Straight Line CrazyRalph Fiennes stars in this talky, static retelling of Moses’s misdeeds.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    A Little Life, Off the Page, Is All In on PainIvo van Hove’s four-hour Dutch adaptation comes to BAM.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    20 Years On, Topdog/Underdog Still Shows Who’s Losing the GameTwo compelling performers keep it alive.
    By Rob Weinert-Kendt
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    The Piano Lesson Returns With Generations of Memory Laid OnSamuel L. Jackson and Danielle Brooks show off their stage mastery in this August Wilson revival.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    A Death of a Salesman Where Disillusionment Has a New EdgeWendell Pierce’s Willy Loman reshapes our experience of a familiar character.
    By Rob Weinert-Kendt
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    The Revived and Reinvented 1776 Is a Delight, If You Can Stand to Watch ItIf you’re going to stage this show despite all its problems, this is how to do it.
    By James Frankie Thomas
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    Economics Makes Strange Bedfellows in Cost of LivingAt Manhattan Theatre Club, two couples navigate their financial straits.
    By Juan A. Ramírez
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    Tom Stoppard Imagines His Family’s Mostly Forgotten PastLeopoldstadt recounts 50 years—including the darkest ones—in the lives of a Viennese family.
    By Naveen Kumar
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    In Funny Girl, Lea Michele Does Exactly What You Thought She CouldThe shiny apple of our eye.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    The Persistence of Memory, Via David StrathairnHe embodies the anti-Nazi resistance fighter Jan Karski in Remember This.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    At the Armory, an Oresteia That’s Barely GreekRather than being pared to its essence, it’s just rootless.
    By James Frankie Thomas
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    On Broadway, The Kite Runner Barely Escapes the Printed PageSo much of the action is spelled out verbatim here that The Kite Runner is more of a vivid recitation than fully realized drama.
    By Naveen Kumar
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    A Richard III Made Not So GloriousThe production works against the best qualities of its star, Danai Gurira.
    By Helen Shaw
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    A Near-Perfect Into the Woods, for a MomentSara Bareilles leads a cast without a weak link.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    In White on White, an Anti-racism Conversation Turns Monstrous“When horror does finally arrive, it’s ecstatic and Cronenbergian and bizarre.”
    By Helen Shaw
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    A Hamlet That May Have Been Nobler in the West EndRobert Icke’s production lost something on its way across the Atlantic.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Strangers at My Table: Domestic Drama in Epiphany and ChainsA loose adaptation of The Dead, and a revival of largely forgotten 1909 London hit.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Will Arbery, Back in Texas With CorsicanaDeirdre O’Connell and Jamie Brewer star in the latest work from the Heroes of the Fourth Turning playwright.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Stroller-Size Theater: Josh Azouz’s Buggy BabyPlus, Beginning Days of True Jubilation at the New Ohio.
    By Helen Shaw
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    In The Orchard, Baryshnikov Co-Stars With a Robotic ArmDoes that thing get scale?
    By Helen Shaw
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    Circle Jerk, Now in the FleshPlus a two-part art-world sitcom: Weekend at Barry’s/Lesbian Lighthouse.
    By Helen Shaw
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    The Bedwetter Is a Real Story About Pain and PeeSarah Silverman’s memoir-musical is flush with jokes and tween anxiety, but that set really has to go.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Dreaming Zenzile Makes Beautiful Music — If Not TheaterA Miriam Makeba bio-musical sounds better than it plays.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Drag Drag Revolution: Notes on Killing … Confuses Its Categories“While I like ontological mayhem as much as the next weird art freak, this is not that kind of generative confusion.”
    By Helen Shaw
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    Fat Ham Aims to Put the Ha in HamletToo too solid.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Who Killed My Father: Elegy Saturated With ClichéÉdouard Louis’s memoir has been bizarrely and frustratingly staged.
    By Helen Shaw
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    In Exception to the Rule, Detention Is a Whole Other Class of PunishmentDave Harris’s play goes into an after-school penalty that’s not really intended to teach lessons.
    By Helen Shaw
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    A Cherry Orchard That Chops Down Most of the TreesChucking out the familiar in search of the truth.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Straight Line Crazy Gives Us Robert Moses Without the FireA very talky, very static play.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    Which Way to the Stage Takes a Superfan’s View of the WorldEmbodied by two characters on the far fringes of theatrical success.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Oh God, A Show About Abortion Could Not Be More RelevantAlison Leiby’s one-woman show doesn’t have the spark it needs — so it’s handy that its audience is already on fire.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Alice Childress’s Wedding Band Returns, Well-BurnishedChildress’s bitter play, now married to a modern sensibility, returns on a wave of acclaim.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Two Men, Twin Falls: Samuel Hunter’s A Case for the Existence of GodSamuel D. Hunter’s play about male friendship, latter-day American desperation, and the passage of time.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Something Distanced This Way Comes: Craig and Negga in MacbethCelebrity squares off against experiment, from Birnam Wood to Dunsinane.
    By Helen Shaw
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    POTUS and Mr. Saturday Night Mine Laughs From Behind the ScenesTwo comedies about the business of image-making.
    By Helen Shaw
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    A Strange Loop Moves to Broadway, Its Furious Energy Changed But IntactMichael R. Jackson’s metamusical masterpiece spins forward.
    By Helen Shaw
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    The Skin of Our Teeth Is No DinosaurSure, some of the humor is dated. But that third act is anything but.
    By Helen Shaw
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    If Someone Takes a Spill: Funny Girl ReturnsBeanie Feldstein takes the titular role.
    By Helen Shaw
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    In Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen, Cruelty Provides the MuseIn this tale of an executioner in 1960s England, a master of the mean joke turns laughs against the viewer.
    By Helen Shaw
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    for colored girls Returns to Broadway in a Triumphant RevivalThe dance-theater gem still glows.
    By Helen Shaw
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    The Predatory Dance of How I Learned to DrivePaula Vogel’s play still manages to make the unbearable watchable — thanks in part to Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse.
    By Helen Shaw
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    The Minutes on Broadway Feels a Few Years Too LateThere was a time when Tracy Letts’s play, about a city council with a secret, felt prescient. But real life has outstripped its satire.
    By Helen Shaw
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    American Buffalo: Gorgeous Performances, Small Author IssueIt’s a beautifully served slice of classic Mamet … if you still have the appetite.
    By Helen Shaw
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    No Nose, Yes Delts: James McAvoy Is Our Generation’s Great CyranoYou will not (and I cannot) get over this performance.
    By Helen Shaw
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    The Little Prince Crash-lands on This PlanetNon.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Birthday Candles, With Debra Messing, Is Not Much of a PartyThere’s too much sugar in that cake she bakes.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Suffs Casts a Complicated Vote for a Complicated HistoryVotes for women, soberly musicalized.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Does Take Me Out Still Hit the Strike Zone?Richard Greenberg’s 2002 play about a gay baseball superstar returns.
    By Helen Shaw
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    The Multiple Original Sins of Paradise SquareOver-workshopped and yet still under-theatricalized.
    By Helen Shaw
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