Rehearsal footage is everywhere on Broadway and beyond. One critic asks if all that access is spoiling theater's best trick:…
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Set change: Our favorite 5-star shows still playing
Some are closing soon, one's transferring to Broadway, another just got a new leading man. Four shows worth a trip…
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5 regional theater productions worth the trip this August
The end of summer brings an eclectic mix of plays and musicals.
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The man who made me a critic never called himself one
1 Minute Critic founder Matthew Wexler on Playhouse Square, memories of his father, and how a childhood at the theater…
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‘Spelling Bee’ revival spells it out: J-O-Y
Twenty years on, "Spelling Bee" arrives Off-Broadway with fresh energy, proving the quirky musical's charm remains timeless.
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Before the Whitney Biennial closes, don’t miss the shrines of street queen Agosto Machado
Agosto Machado spent decades building altars to a vanished queer New York. Find his tribute inside the Whitney Biennial before…
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I went to ‘Les Misérables’ at Radio City and came home a singing student revolutionary
One critic's neighbors have not recovered from a week of 'Les Mis' earworms. Here's what the arena concert spectacular gets…
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Before ‘Purple Rain’ hits Broadway, meet the photographer who knew Prince best
Broadway is getting ready to resurrect another pop icon when Purple Rain opens at the Majestic Theatre next March. Based…
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Cat Cohen turns a near-death experience into Off-Broadway’s funniest solo show
Cat Cohen turns a stroke and a hole in her heart into a sharp, funny Off-Broadway solo show at the…
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What is art? What is crime? Colson Whitehead’s ‘Cool Machine’ lets its characters argue it out
Ray Carney returns for one last job in 'Cool Machine,' Colson Whitehead's gritty, funny finale to the Harlem Trilogy.
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