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    Who Thought Stoppard Needs More Sex?Bedlam’s Arcadia falls into an easy trap.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Spamalot Returns, and It’s Not Dead YetSay no more!
    By Sara Holdren
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    Is Anything Real in Scene Partners? Is Everything?John J. Caswell Jr.’s script is like an Escher drawing, endlessly spiraling in on itself.
    By Sara Holdren
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    That’s the Idea, Let’s Amuse Each Other! Shannon and Sparks in Waiting for GodotMichael Shannon and Paul Sparks foreground the funny in Beckett.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Navigating the Expanses of Danny and the Deep Blue SeaChristopher Abbott and Aubrey Plaza star in the 1983 John Patrick Shanley play that’s beloved of young actors.
    By Sara Holdren
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    The Day the Clowns Cried: HarmonyThe rise of the Nazi regime, recounted in a Cabaret-adjacent musical with songs by Barry Manilow.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Tragic Losses, of Life and Language, in Watch Night and TranslationsThe destruction wrought by colonialism and racism, rendered onstage in very different ways.
    By Sara Holdren
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    What’ll It Be? At FOOD, the End of the World As We Know It.A farcical, funny, and haunting commentary on the industrialized, globalized diet.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Sabbath’s Theater Can’t Get Out of Its HeadAn adaptation of Philip Roth ends up feeling uncharacteristically tame.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    I Need That Does Not Spark JoyDanny and Lucy DeVito, as an almost-hoarder and his daughter, are trapped in a play full of junk.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Bring a Bucket and a Mop for This Snatch & TaintyA juicy, joyful, bodily-function-obsessed trip below the belt.
    By Sara Holdren
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    The ‘Yes, We Can’ Spirit of Poor Yella RednecksQui Nguyen’s optimistic, funny immigration tale.
    By Sara Holdren
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    The Box-Checking Work Begins: Merry MeA self-described lesbian sex comedy leans on its Angels in America references.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Money, Love, and Music, All at Odds in I Can Get It for You WholesaleAn underseen musical revived, full of intriguing contradictions.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Stereophonic Goes Its Own Way, and Finds Its GrooveA very Rumours rock saga immerses you in the act of creation.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Covenant Is Best When It’s At Its PulpiestWhy aren’t there more plays that lean into being genre horror?
    By Sara Holdren
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    Make Like a Tree: Renae Simone Jarrett’s DaphneOvid’s telling of the myth, reimagined.
    By Sara Holdren
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    The Last Midnight: Sondheim and Ives’s ‘Here We Are’A strange, dark, fragmented, and compelling final message from the master.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Language As Engine: Helen. and MahineratorA feminist Trojan War parable and a monologue that leaps right over the desk to grab you.
    By Sara Holdren
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    How It Went Down, Revised: Salesman之死 and Room, Room, Room …Two plays that find power in strange historical corners.
    By Sara Holdren
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    A Full, Fierce Day in Sean O’Casey’s DublinA six-hour, three-play DruidO’Casey marathon where the ’20s rhyme with ours, unsettlingly.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Gutenberg! The Musical!’s Broadway Dreams Mostly Come TrueBook of Mormon dynamos Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad reunite on Broadway with a new mission: to elevate a delightful yet padded-out show.
    By Sara Holdren
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    A Long Hike in the Woods: The Refuge PlaysNathan Alan Davis’s three-part epic falls short of its big ambitions.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Here’s to Them. Who’s Like Them? Damn Few.Turns out what Merrily We Roll Along needs most is three actors who can really bring it home, and here they are.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Where the Stories Intertwine TooAnd the wigs deserve an award all their own.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Melissa Etheridge Takes the Aw-Shucks Road to BroadwayMy Window is a night of songs and personal biography, loosely hung together.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    A Vintage Satire That Still Has Sting: Purlie Victorious ReturnsOssie Davis’s plantation farce retains its wit and snap.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Slapstick and Plague, in Mary Gets HersWacky fun with medieval horrors.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Little Shop of Blah-Blah: Theresa Rebeck’s DigA redemption play that betrays its own premise.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Did a Bot Write This Review of Prometheus Firebringer? No, and Here’s Why Not.A script written and performed by AI in real time has unexpected effects on an audience.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Job Pays Off and Clocks Out“Like a good TV crime drama, it’s manipulative in a value-neutral sense: It knows the position it wants to put you in, and it puts you there.”
    By Sara Holdren
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    In Swing State, Bleak Politics in the Tall GrassRebecca Gilman’s story is hemmed in on all sides.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Rachel Bloom Sets Avoidance to Song in Death, Let Me Do My ShowA terrible March 2020, exposed but not too exposed.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    The Mortal Truths of Annie Baker’s Infinite Life“This is part of Baker’s brilliance: to ruffle feathers with the calmest of breezes.”
    By Sara Holdren
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    Shadows and Seams, Both Visible: No Good Things Dwell in the FleshIn Christina Masciotti’s play about a Queens tailor facing her career’s end, the principal characters are everything.
    By Sara Holdren
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    A Tempest in the Park That’s (Mostly) No Thoughts, Just VibesIn tone and temperament, this production owes much more to Disney than it does to Shakespeare.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Improv on the Roof, Catharsis in Aisle 5What Else Is True? and Joan of Arc in a Supermarket in California leave our critic saying, “Yes, and …?”
    By Sara Holdren
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    The Shark Is Broken Goes Chumming for Your AffectionIan Shaw’s play bemoans big action movies’ death grip on the culture — while also venerating the voracious progenitor of them all.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    You Made a Musical … Out of a DeLorean?Back to the Future: The Musical is a carefully faithful spectacle.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Pregaming With Three Postcollege Brats (Plus a Dog) at Toros“The play keeps reminding you it’s a performance, which is nice in a time when many shows feel like they just want to be adapted into film or TV.”
    By Jackson McHenry
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    The Epic and Hyperspecific in Half-God of Rainfall and Let’s Call Her PattyThe gods shoot hoops; Rhea Perlman chops onions.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    The Cottage Needs More Doors to SlamLaura Bell Bundy and Eric McCormack lead a too-tidy farce.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Notes on Teamwork: Flex and Orpheus DescendingTwo midsummer trips to the South.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Here Lies Love Is an Unsettlingly Good TimeA show that portrays Imelda Marcos as blithe naïf and corrupt co-tyrant—and also enabler of a rousing dance party.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    A Hamlet in the Park That Puzzles the WillKenny Leon’s production gestures at a lot without capturing any one thing.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Dropping by the Local Nazis: Alex Edelman’s Just for UsPlus: Liz Kingsman’s One Woman Show, and the state of solo comedy meta-theater.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Once Upon a One More Time Bungles Britney on BroadwayIt’s not the way I planned it.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Physicians, Preen Thyselves: The DoctorA play about the self-serving sanctimony of the newly canceled.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Patterns of Addiction in Days of Wine and Roses and Wet BrainOne decorous, one unleashed.
    By Jackson McHenry
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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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