Saheem Ali's love letter to Kenya features the fabulous Amber Iman, a fine cast, and Michael Thurber's great music.
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A gripping, innovative production, reduced to two hours but still full of Gounod's glorious music, boasts a terrific cast and smart, sinewy staging.
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Timeworn tropes of hauntings and show business come to life with just the right balance of silliness and earnestness in this old-school new musical.
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In a suite of four powerful one-acts Caryl Churchill threads themes about vulnerability, powerlessness, and loss.
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'John Proctor is the Villain' deals with a conservative, religious community where girls confront issues paralleling those in 'The Crucible.'
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"At the climax of the trick, hundreds of cockroaches were let loose and got all over [David] Letterman. He was so mad; he pushed me away."
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The Picture of Dorian Gray Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner for her role as Shiv in Succession, Sarah Snook makes her debut exploding out of the Broadway gate with her shattering, one-woman, whirlwind performance of Dorian Gray. Donning 26 roles, she gives twenty-six performances, all of them profoundly realized …
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'Operation Mincemeat' is a rollicking yet profoundly ironic and nuanced musical about a WWII British espionage scheme that duped Hitler.
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This April, the NAB show 2025 will combine artificial intelligence and sports to create a new feel for the ultimate broadcast conference in the world.
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This high-school-football retelling of 'The Iliad' is a voluminous, rainbow-hued spectacle of glory days and myth, staged and played with pomp and passion.
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