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Theater
Broadway, Off-Broadway and the people making the city a stage.
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Inside the Night Egg, Colette Gets to Tell the Story
The most intriguing new theater spaces often announce themselves by asking the audience to forget, briefly, what a theater is supposed to…
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Cat Cohen Turns a Medical Crisis Into a Spotlight
Cat Cohen has built a comic persona around the conviction that the spotlight is not merely desirable but morally correct. That makes…
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Jacob Ming-Trent Makes Shakespeare Personal
The title How Shakespeare Saved My Life sounds grand until Jacob Ming-Trent begins to make the claim literal. The actor and writer’s…
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Stranger Things Keeps Its Monsters on Broadway
The most persuasive reason to see Stranger Things: The First Shadow has little to do with catching up on a franchise. It…
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Rocky Horror Returns to the Room That Invented Reinvention
There may be no Broadway address better suited to The Rocky Horror Show than Studio 54. Richard O’Brien’s musical is a celebration…
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Schmigadoon! Escapes Television and Lands on Broadway
The joke at the center of Schmigadoon! was always a theatrical joke. Two contemporary people wandered into a town governed by the…
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The Lost Boys Finds a New Home Under the Palace Marquee
Few New York buildings understand reinvention as thoroughly as the Palace Theatre. The vaudeville shrine has survived movies, musicals, redevelopment and, most…
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Broadway Turns Out the Lights for Paranormal Activity
Horror has always had a useful problem in the theater: the audience can see the edges. A movie can cut away, hide…
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A Ghanaian Boarding School Comes to Broadway
The beauty pageant in Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is ostensibly a competition, but the more consequential…
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Bowen Yang Walks Into Mary Todd Lincoln’s Cabaret
A peculiar kind of Broadway role that eventually stops belonging to its creator and starts behaving like a dare. Mary Todd Lincoln…
