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Theater Review

  1. theater review
    Vito Dieterle, Ian Riggs, Ethan Lipton, and Eben Levy in 'We Are Your Robots.'
    We Are Your Robots: Do Androids Dream of Electric Guitars?Siri, show me a good play with music.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Old Patterns and Bold Stitches: The Blood QuiltKatori Hall’s family-inheritance drama stays within a familiar grid.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Divas at Dusk: Death Becomes Her as Broadway CampThe musical adaptation of the Streep-and-Hawn movie is relentlessly eager for you to laugh with and at its dueling lead actresses.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Out to Sea and Back With Swept AwayThe story of a whaling expedition that turned horrifying, musicalized by the Avett Brothers.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Shit. Meet. Fan. Tells Us Lots That We Already KnowNeil Patrick Harris and Jane Krakowski star in Robert O’Hara’s self-described “blistering vulgar satire.” It delivers one of those three things.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Grey Henson and Sean Astin in 'Elf.'
    Elf: The Musical, Where They Sing Really Loud for All to HearEveryone’s trying, but the show itself is a cotton-headed ninny-muggins.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    The Lighter Side of Christian Nationalism: Tammy FayeSpinning an evangelist grifter into a camp icon and sorta-feminist heroine is a little hard to take right now.
    By Sara Holdren
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    King Lear at the Fountain of YouthKenneth Branagh’s production is fleet and facile.
    By Sara Holdren
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    When Robots Meet Cute: Maybe Happy Ending“It might feel like 2064 on the surface, but in its nostalgic, rechargeable heart, the show parties like it’s 1999.”
    By Sara Holdren
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    A Wonderful World Is Also a Familiar OneJames Monroe Iglehart does a fine job embodying Louis Armstrong in a show that’s anything but improvisational.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Octavia Chavez-Richmond, Karen Lugo, Ugo Chukwu, Alina Troyano, and Will Dagger in 'Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!'
    Soho Rep Closes Out the House With Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!It’s the final show at Walkerspace, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Alina Troyano’s play is a wild goodbye whoop.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Worlds on the Brink: Walden and A Woman Among WomenAmy Berryman and Julia May Jonas invoke and gut renovate Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller (not to mention Thoreau).
    By Sara Holdren
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    Teeth Is Back and Biting HarderAnna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson’s horror musical now has a gory splash zone, and it benefits from the extra layer of kitsch (and plastic).
    By Jackson McHenry
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    A Big, Agnostic RagtimeCity Center’s revival blows the speakers out but says comparatively little.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Theater of the ApocalypseIn the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot and HOTHOUSE put their characters in surreal settings as the world burns.
    By Sara Holdren
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    International Arrivals: We Live in Cairo and Bad KreyòlTwo shows take audiences into the Arab Spring and the Haitian American experience.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Kissing by the Book: Connor and Zegler in Romeo & JulietA production that’s all shimmer with little grasp of Shakespeare’s words. (Plus: The silly joys of Drag: The Musical.)
    By Sara Holdren
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    Left on Tenth Goes Right Down the MiddleJulianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher reenact Delia Ephron’s memoir, long on charm and short on dramatic tension.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    A Madly Showy Sunset Blvd.As Norma Desmond, Nicole Scherzinger is gargantuan and almost feral.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Adam Driver Going Huge: Hold on to Me DarlingHe takes a role in hand as if it were an old carpet, shamelessly beating the dust out of it.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Truth, Meet Power: Erika Sheffer’s VladimirOn 20 years of Putinism.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Drama Afloat in Red Hook: The Wind and the RainA play about Sunny’s Bar and the world it embodies.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Stage, Managed: A TV-Star-Driven Our TownKenny Leon’s production is gentle where it could bite.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Climate Hopefulness Faces the Fire in Deep HistoryDavid Finnigan’s play starts as lecture, then takes a turn.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    What’s In a Name? Surface and Substance In The Counter and Dirty LaundryMeghan Kennedy goes deep in a diner, and Mathilde Dratwa gets personal with grief.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Marla Mindelle Is Back, Ridiculously, in The Big Gay JamboreeQueen of the world!
    By Jackson McHenry
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    In a Pair of Musicals, Gabriel Kahane Seeks America and HimselfHe performs ‘Magnificent Bird’ and ‘Book of Travelers’ on alternating nights.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Hannah Gadsby Won’t Give You ClosureThe comedian’s new show, Woof!, offers a kaleidoscopic tour of their current state of mind but no pat takeaways.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Is the Safety Not Guaranteed Musical What You Wish For?Guster’s singer-songwriter Ryan Miller tries his hand at musical theater.
    By Sara Holdren
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    The Best of All Possible Intentions: Yellow Face and Good BonesDavid Henry Hwang and James Ijames on places where idealism runs up against success.
    By Sara Holdren
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    McNeal and Robert Downey Jr. Dance With ChatGPTThe playwright Ayad Akhtar considers the prospects (ominous and otherwise) of AI art-making.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Doing Less With More: The Hills of CaliforniaJez Butterworth’s latest play, directed by Sam Mendes, is an array of overfamiliar archetypes and under-thought choices.
    By Sara Holdren
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    The Ghost of John McCain Is Inside Out for MSNBC AddictsStuck in Donald Trump’s head, literally but also artistically.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    In Praise of Difficult Women: Medea Re-Versed and Blood of the LambAn ancient play reimagined in rap rhymes and a cautionary tale about post-Dobbs America.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Sean Bell and Kate Mulgrew in 'The Beacon.'
    The Beacon Needs Its Heat Turned Slightly Lower“One can’t be moved, or even really engaged, when a writer keeps saying, ‘See what I did there?’”
    By Sara Holdren
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    Mama Grizzlies Tear Into Lunch in oh, HoneyIn Jeana Scotti’s play, everyone’s got a son facing sexual-misconduct accusations, and the waitperson is taking notes.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Counting and Cracking Is a Joyous Generational Square-offPlus a smart new play, ‘The Ask,’ at the Wild Project.
    By Sara Holdren
  38. theater review
    The Roommate Barely Unpacks Its Own BoxesIt settles in, and then it’s gone.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Apps, Drinks, and Drama at Table 17Kara Young eats, spectacularly.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Christopher Bannow and Anthony Roth Costanzo in 'The Marriage of Figaro.'
    The Marriage of Figaro, Almost Solo and Fully AlfrescoThe countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo sings every part as his co-stars lip-sync.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Sutton Foster Brings Some Bounce to Once Upon a MattressWorking off a book freshened up by Amy Sherman-Palladino, the actress gives it her all in this transfer of an Encores! production.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    A Poodle Room on Wall Street: Life and TrustThe immersive follow-up to Sleep No More imagines sex and horror in early-20th-century Fidi.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Plot Twists, Slick and Surreal: Job and Six CharactersA tech-thriller unknots itself on Broadway, and a metatheatrical revolution keeps probing.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Empire: The Musical Stacks Up 102 Stories, Every One a ClichéA cringey new musical about the rise of the Empire State Building.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Oh, Mary! Is Excellently UncivilCole Escola’s Mary Todd Lincoln farce transfers uptown, preserving the union between absurdity and hilarity.
    By Sara Holdren
  46. theater review
    From ERS's Ulysses.
    ERS’s Ulysses Is a Little Stately, a Little PlumpThink you’re escaping and run into yourself.
    By Sara Holdren
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    The Speaker and the Upstart Talk It Out: N/AIt’s Pelosi vs. AOC onstage, and Holland Taylor, as Nancy, gets all the zingers.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Kathleen Tolan, Connie Schulman, and Lizbeth Mackay in Clubbed Thumb's 2024 production of FIND ME HERE.
    Three-Sister Harmony in Find Me HerePlus an array of short-run summer shows to watch for if they return.
    By Sara Holdren
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    The Drag-Ball Cats Is GoodWell, now, how about that!
    By Sara Holdren
  50. theater review
    Looking Back at Bad Men: Dark Noon and Pre-Existing ConditionColonialism and abuse, addressed onstage.
    By Sara Holdren
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