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‘Spring Awakening’ gets a stylist. Will it sell seats?
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Cheeyang Ng won big in Edinburgh. Now they’re questioning what ‘winning’ looks like.
I discovered Cheeyang Ng on social media, where they posted a video for “In the Beginning” from their solo show…
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Can anyone afford to be sick? Molière asked first in ‘The Imaginary Invalid’
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Andrew Durand grows younger by the minute in ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’
Turning The Curious Case of Benjamin Button into a musical is, indeed, curious. Within the first few moments of The…
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Billy Crystal returns to Broadway with the one thing the Palisades Fire couldn’t take
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Protest songs, political scandal & a clown with something to say at United Solo
New York stages are becoming unapologetically agitprop this fall. With the midterm elections just a couple of weeks out, theatermakers…
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What happens when we die? In The Book of the Dead, editor Jonathan Strahan assembles a terrific mélange of premier…
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