If you’ve sat around a holiday table and wondered if you were really related to the people sitting across from…
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When a picture is worth a thousand unspeakable words
I was 10 when my Sunday school teacher rolled out a projector, spooled a 16mm film, turned off the lights,…
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The drag queen who crashed the 1992 Democratic National Convention gets an encore
Long before the recent blue wave that saw Democrats take control of the U.S. House of Representatives, Senate, and five…
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The bear is the bonus. Jessie Mueller returns to Broadway in ‘Paddington’
Can Paddington The Musical shake up Broadway’s family business? For more than 30 years, that business has largely belonged to…
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‘Wanted’ rides onto Broadway with rafter-shaking vocals and a few holes in its holster
WANTED: A new, original Broadway musical that forgoes familiar IP and draws instead on its creators’ imaginations. DESCRIPTION: Be on…
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Could Broadway make room for a third Lin-Manuel Miranda musical?
If there’s one American musical theater composer who could pull off a Broadway trifecta, it’d be Lin-Manuel Miranda. New York…
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In ‘The Unbelievers,’ Lauren Ambrose lives inside every parent’s nightmare
“You have no idea what it’s like.” People have said that to me several times while I’ve tried to be…
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I went to Ogunquit for a musical and left with a crush on Carl Sprinchorn
I came to Ogunquit for a world-premiere musical and a lobster roll. I left thinking about a Swedish painter I’d…
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The hardest-working performer in this new musical never takes a bow
What if a musical’s central character wasn’t a person, but an organ? Enter The Heart, a pulsating, if occasionally arrhythmic,…
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Bradley Whitford unleashes the line you came to hear in ‘A Few Good Men’
A lot of testosterone is oozing off the Vivian Beaumont stage, and Aaron Sorkin fans will likely lap it up.…
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