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    Living Is Harder: Suffs and GrenfellSuffrage and outrage make for rich stage experiences.
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    The Wiz Rolls Back Into TownBig high-energy performances, undercut by the folks behind the curtain.
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    Writing Down the Bones: Sally & TomA curiously muted Hemings-and-Jefferson meta-story by Suzan-Lori Parks.
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    Look, I Made a Woman: LempickaThe musical somehow turns a radical bisexual painter, living and loving in Paris between the wars, a little bit boring.
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    St. Ronnie the Oblivious: Richard Foreman’s Symphony of RatsThe Wooster Group brings back a Reagan-era yawp of discontinuity.
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    Not Without Ambition, But … Macbeth (an undoing)A reimagining of Shakespeare, centering Lady Macbeth, asks the wrong questions about her.
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    Return of the Musical Rumble: The OutsidersDoes the stage adaptation stay gold?
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    Always Gets a Replay: The Who’s TommyYes, it’s a show from another time and culture. But the tension that disconnect brings is fascinating.
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    Grief Hotel, Where You Check In to YourselfLiza Birkenmeier’s discontinuous, fragmented play imagines a quasi-spa marketed to anyone experiencing loss.
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    A.J. Shively and David McElwee in Irish Rep's 2024 production of PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME!
    Becoming Brian Friel: Philadelphia, Here I Come!At the Irish Rep, early work by a future master.
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    Water for Elephants Is Best When It’s Behind the TimesDazzling circus arts and great puppetry are almost enough.
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    In Teeth, Purity Culture Leaves Bite MarksMichael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs are out for blood.
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    Ibsen, Translated Into American: An Enemy of the PeopleWith Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli, and drinks on the house.
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    Love and Brains, Dull and Sharp: The Notebook and The EffectA musical adaptation that’s generic to the point of inanity, and a play that asks and examines real questions about what a person is.
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    Corruption’s Heroes Are Not Serious PeopleMurdoch’s phone-hacking scandal, recounted by thinly drawn archetypes.
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    The Old-Weird-America Pleasures of Dead OutlawFrom the team behind The Band’s Visit, another musical that is more than meets the eye.
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    Doubt Returns in a Traditionalist ProductionJohn Patrick Shanley’s dialogue still packs heat, but the fire’s been turned down this time.
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    Feeling the Illinoise, This Time Through MovementSufjan Stevens’s album becomes a transcendent theater-dance-music piece.
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    Brooklyn Laundry’s Drama Has Been Worn to DeathJohn Patrick Shanley’s play needs a little starch.
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    In The Ally, Impossible Conversations We’re All HavingItamar Moses’s drama about a lefty Israeli American caught up in the complexity of pro-Palestine academia is confident and eloquent in its humility.
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    Fiasco’s Smooth-Sailing PericlesAn affable, legible take that intermittently sings.
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    Cynthia Nixon Does Anything But Vanish in The Seven Year DisappearShe and Taylor Trensch lead an ambitious, if rangy, survey of mother-son dynamics.
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    Tobias Menzies and Aerina DeBoer in The Hunt.
    Through a Glass, Familiarly: The HuntIn this adaptation of a Danish thriller, almost all the characters conform to movie-trope behavior and movie-trope actions.
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    Encores!
Jelly’s Last Jam
    The Jazz Age Re-reborn: At Encores!, Jelly’s Last JamFrom tap to vocals, an astonishing achievement for such a short run.
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    Sunset Baby’s Troubled Children of the RevolutionDominique Morisseau’s play looks at the time after revolutionary fire is reduced to a simmer.
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    Alone in the Dark: I Love You So Much I Could Die and On Set With Theda BaraTwo solo shows, looking to make the most of limited resources—and one, at least, soars.
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    Two Queens (and Some Dancing): The ApiaryVirtuosic performances in a play that can’t quite get airborne.
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    Reviews: Onstage, Trauma Times 3Reviews of Munich Medea, Self Portraits (DELUXE), and you don’t have to do anything.
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    Too Too Solid: Eddie Izzard’s HamletThe British comedian, so deft on a standup stage, has a go at Shakespeare—and tightens up.
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    Oh, Mary! The Play Was Hilarious, Mrs. LincolnCole Escola goes berserk as the First Lady.
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    The Trouble With Trolls, in Russian Troll FarmSarah Gancher’s play takes us to the bunker where disinformation begins its journey.
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    We’re in This Together: Bark of Millions and The Following EveningA maximalist performance and a quiet, inward-looking play—both, somehow, about creative legacy and earthly mystery.
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    Editorial Notes on The Connector“Can we get more specific in this section right here?”
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    Quiet Obsessions, Unplugged: Aberdeen and The Animal KingdomA verse play about Kurt, and a therapy play about hurt.
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    Soaring Voices and Plastic Plants in Days of Wine and RosesKelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James at peak vocal power.
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    The Encores! Once Upon a Mattress Is the Biggest Summer-Camp Show EverSutton Foster and friends play it really big and really broad for this lively short run.
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    Diary of an Overbooked Theater-Festival Surfer: Week ThreeJack! Rose! Jack! Rose! And Eugene Onegin.
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    The Long Zoom of Public ObscenitiesA story of bringing a partner home to Kolkata is steeped in naturalism.
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    Diary of an Overbooked Theater-Festival Surfer: Week TwoPuppets, worms, toilets, and a really aggressive Shakespeare take.
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    Diary of an Overbooked Theater-Festival Surfer: Week OneOn finding eccentric Miranda July commentary and gonzo race commentary during January’s experimental-theater blitz.
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    Can You Put Your Faith in Prayer for the French Republic?It’s a timely and engaged play, but that engagement is glib.
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    An Estate That Divides: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s AppropriateSarah Paulson is furious and fearsome.
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    A Cold-Blooded Night of the IguanaA Tennessee Williams curio whose temperature never rises above a simmer.
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    When the Play’s Not the ThingToo often, great performances and stagecraft are let down by the script behind them.
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    The Too-Steady Charm of How to Dance in OhioA winning cast of autistic actors elevates a rote concept.
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    Reflections on Lost Lands: Manahatta and Life & Times of Michael KOnstage, the commoditization of Lenape land and the reclamation of a South African farm.
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    A Decent Docent: Gavin Creel’s Walk on ThroughA tour from a “museum novice” that’s also an autobiography.
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    The Echo From the Days of ’39: Jen Silverman’s SpainA cool treatment of a once-hot civil war.
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    At Playwrights Horizons, a Tinge of the FringeAmusements, School Pictures, and Sad Boys in Harpy Land are running in repertory.
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    The Gardens of Anuncia Is a Musical That Thinks SmallBased on Graciela Daniele’s life story, it deliberately leaves her as a secondary character.
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