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Oct 15, 2020

2020 Tony Nominations Full List

Although we don’t have a date for the 74th Annual Tony Awards, we do have a full list of nominees! Surprises here included the exclusion of The Lightning Thief, which meant Best Score went entire to plays and Best Leading Actor in a musical is unopposed. For musical, Jagged Little…

Art

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2020 Tony Nominations Full List
2020 Tony Nominations Full List
Art

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Apr 21, 2020

Drama Desk Nominations 2020

The Drama Desk Awards celebrate achievements both Broadway and off-Broadway for a season — this year, of course, that season was cut off quite short. The shut down of theatres due to COVID-19 dramatically impacted what shows were already open, and therefore eligible, for awards this year. This was especially…

Art

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Drama Desk Nominations 2020
Drama Desk Nominations 2020
Art

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Mar 2, 2020

We Need to Talk About “West Side Story”

The problems of Ivo van Hove’s “West Side Story” are almost too numerous to fit into a single piece, but I am going to try. There has already been quite a bit written on this revival, so instead of a traditional review this is going to be more of a…

Metoo

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We Need to Talk About “West Side Story”
We Need to Talk About “West Side Story”
Metoo

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Feb 27, 2020

Revivals, Revisals: “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”

A review of the newly revised production of “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” in light of “Mack & Mabel” at City Center Encores! and Ivo van Hove’s “West Side Story.” In our current theatrical moment, what degree of nostalgia should go into a revival? As a critic, some weeks you see…

Culture

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Revivals, Revisals: “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”
Revivals, Revisals: “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”
Culture

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Feb 26, 2020

Review: Deirdre O’Connell Lip Syncs for Her Life in Lucas Hnath’s “Dana H.”

At this point it is hard to go more than a few months without a Lucas Hnath play. “The Thin Place” at Playwrights Horizons closed just a few weeks ago, and now we herald the opening of the wunderkind’s latest work, “Dana H.” Hnath is such a versatile, chameleonic playwright…

Culture

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Review: Deirdre O’Connell Lip Syncs for Her Life in Lucas Hnath’s “Dana H.”
Review: Deirdre O’Connell Lip Syncs for Her Life in Lucas Hnath’s “Dana H.”
Culture

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Feb 10, 2020

Review: Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale Put Murder and Marriage Center Stage in “Medea”

“Medea” is one of the stories that you know going in what’s going to happen— no matter what, the tossed-aside wife is going to murder her children — but you watch anyway, almost unable to look away. Simon Stone, who wrote and directed a new adaptation currently playing at BAM’s…

Culture

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Review: Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale Put Murder and Marriage Center Stage in “Medea”
Review: Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale Put Murder and Marriage Center Stage in “Medea”
Culture

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Feb 6, 2020

Review: Laura Linney in “My Name is Lucy Barton”

Elizabeth Strout’s novels are generally beloved, as is Laura Linney, so combining the two was a logical choice for adapter Rona Munro and director Richard Eyre. However, the production of “My Name is Lucy Barton” at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Friedman Theatre (a transfer from London), seems to be lacking…

Theatre

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Review: Laura Linney in “My Name is Lucy Barton”
Review: Laura Linney in “My Name is Lucy Barton”
Theatre

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Jan 17, 2020

On Theatrical Terror: “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord” and “The Thin Place”

Works of drama have been traditionally classified into comedies or tragedies, (or if you are being generous, tragicomedies). Ever since the Ancient Greeks this dramaturgical framework has been the main way that audiences, writers, performers, scholars, and critics alike have understood theatre. The main basis behind this genre binary is…

Art

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On Theatrical Terror: “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord” and “The Thin Place”
On Theatrical Terror: “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord” and “The Thin Place”
Art

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Dec 11, 2019

Review: “one in two” Confronts What Stories We Tell About HIV, and How We Tell Them

In “The Inheritance,” the current talk of the town gay play that claims to deal with the legacy of the AIDS crisis, all of the major characters are not only white, but are HIV-. There are two minor Black characters, one of whom is HIV+, but his status is only…

HIV

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Review: “one in two” Confronts What Stories We Tell About HIV, and How We Tell Them
Review: “one in two” Confronts What Stories We Tell About HIV, and How We Tell Them
HIV

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Nov 25, 2019

Review: Is “The Inheritance” the Next Gay Epic?

On the surface, it is easy to make a comparison between “Angels in America” and Matthew Lopez’s new play “The Inheritance”: both are sprawling, two-part plays with large casts of characters and explore gay themes, especially HIV. However, when you look closer and move past this vague description, it becomes…

LGBTQ

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Review: Is “The Inheritance” the Next Gay Epic?
Review: Is “The Inheritance” the Next Gay Epic?
LGBTQ

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Christian Lewis

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Theater Critic. Vassar College alum, current PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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