Theater
The Prom’s greatest strength is how the musical can be, almost simultaneously, satirical, hilarious, and nuanced.
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A talented cast does its best to add buoyancy to a script weighted down in palaver.
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This pared-down staging of Tony Kushner’s 30 year-old masterpiece invites some reflection, even a kind of nostalgia. But blazing through — with seraphic force — is the harsh reality of how insane we have become.
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And So We Walked is about the performer finding her roots, and that quest is often meandering.
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Musical revivals are stealing the show on Broadway this season – some more successfully than others
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Over the years I have seen several productions of Coriolanus, and this one is by far the most perfunctory.
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The Huntington Theatre Company’s co-production of Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s is spirited and sassy.
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Rejoice, my fellow musical theater geeks, Apple TV’s Schimgadoon! is once again taking center stage.
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The theme may be Black love, but the dramatist is too smart not to invite all of us to consider (or perhaps even reconsider) our personal definitions of what love means and how that changes the ways we relate to each other.
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Arts Commentary/Interview: Some Thoughts on The Climate Crisis and Theater
How can we create theater that practices critique and empathy in relation to climate change that simultaneously challenges and lifts us, provokes and provides a muscular hope?
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