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Broadway review: Sex abuse drama ‘How I Learned to Drive’ is as unsettling now as it was when it broke ground 25 years ago

NEW YORK — When Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive” opened in 1997 with Mary-Louise Parker in the lead role, the depiction of sexual abuse on stage was close to nonexistent. This long running off-Broadway play, which charts the systematic abuse of a young woman by her uncle, explained,…

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Broadway review: Tracy Letts’ intense drama ‘The Minutes’ turns small town democracy into a war zone

NEW YORK — When I first saw Tracy Letts’ “The Minutes” in 2017 in Chicago, director Anna D. Shapiro’s sizzling Steppenwolf Theatre production felt like a takedown of Donald Trump’s triumphalist America, too engaged in self-promotion to confront the unsavory aspects of its own origin story.

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Beanie Feldstein, Jane Lynch bond backstage at 'Funny Girl'

For her third birthday party, Beanie Feldstein was asked what she wanted as its theme

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Broadway review: ‘American Buffalo’ revival is highly entertaining, but does not travel into David Mamet’s emotional core

NEW YORK — David Mamet — the confounding, outspoken playwright that artistic progressives are dying to cancel — wrote “American Buffalo” in 1975, when he was just 27 years old.

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The Minutes review – Tracy Letts delivers a biting American allegory

The playwright also stars in his latest Broadway production, a dark-hued drama about a town council meeting

The Guardian - US

Broadway extends mask mandates through May 31, some theaters will ditch vaccine requirement after April

NEW YORK — Mask requirements at Broadway shows will not exit stage left just yet, but some theaters will cut vaccination mandates by the end of this month.

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NYC’s 42nd and Broadway Renamed ‘Jackie Robinson Way’

The city commemorated his breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier in a big way.

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Broadway theaters extend mask mandate through May 31

Broadway theatergoers will have to keep their masks up through at least May 31, the Broadway League said Friday

The Independent UK

Playwright Noah Haidle blows out his 'Birthday Candles'

Playwright Noah Haidle’s Broadway debut is all about time and yet none was on his side as the pandemic closed in

The Independent UK

American Buffalo review – David Mamet returns to Broadway with a thud

Circle on the Square Theatre, New YorkLaurence Fishburne and Sam Rockwell bring star power to this umpteenth revival but there’s a staleness they struggle to overcome

The Guardian - US

Broadway review: Chilly, confusing ‘Little Prince’ forgot to unpack its heart

NEW YORK — In his allegorical 1943 French novella “The Little Prince,” Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote, “One sees clearly only with the heart.” So why, one might reasonably ask, is the new family-oriented show at the Broadway Theatre such a cold and removed affair?

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Broadway goes green with free Earth Day 2022 concert in Times Square featuring stars from ‘Hamilton,’ ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Phantom of the Opera’

NEW YORK — The Great White Way is going green.

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Amara Okereke interview: We’re going to have a black Eliza Doolittle in the West End - it’s phenomenal

Bartlett Sher’s Broadway smash revival of My Fair Lady is coming to London - star Amara Okereke explains why Eliza Doolittle is a revolutionary figure

Evening Standard

Broadway review: ‘Birthday Candles’ with Debra Messing depicts agony of loss and change

NEW YORK — In “Three Tall Women,” the great playwright Edward Albee identified what he called the “360-degree view.” It happens, he said, in your 40s or 50s, when you’re old enough to understand the folly of youth and still young enough to see and feel the agonizing decline of…

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Pamela Anderson makes Broadway debut in ‘Chicago’

NEW YORK — Pamela Anderson smiled and held a bouquet of roses after making her much-anticipated Broadway debut with Tuesday’s performance in “Chicago.”

Chicago Tribune

My worst moment: The time ‘Atlanta’ star Brian Tyree Henry heard ‘you suck’ mid-performance

“Atlanta” on FX is back for a third season, and in the intervening years since the previous season concluded in 2018, the careers of those working both in front of and behind the camera have expanded considerably, including that of Brian Tyree Henry, who plays Alfred, a rapper who goes…

The Independent UK

Jesse Tyler Ferguson pivots to baseball in a Broadway play

Earlier this month, Jesse Tyler Ferguson got a private tour of hallowed ground — Yankee Stadium

Chicago Sun-Times

Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick sidelined with COVID as Broadway fights virus

Parker tested positive Thursday and the show has been canceled. What happens with future performances “will be announced as soon as possible,” according to producers.

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Sarah Jessica Parker sidelined as Broadway fights virus

The second shoe has dropped at “Plaza Suite” on Broadway

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Review: Fraught with America’s strife, the new Broadway musical ‘Paradise Square’ gives its all

NEW YORK — Jaws clenched, limbs firing and hearts on the line: That’s what the admirable cast of the gutsy “Paradise Square” is delivering at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. They’re led by a blockbuster lead performance from Joaquina Kalukango, who makes her audience care about the struggling denizens of her…

The Independent UK

Jesse Williams says he was ‘terrified’ of stripping for his Take Me Out Broadway debut

‘I asked to do something that was scary and challenging and made me earn it and made me feel alive and not comfortable,’ actor said

Los Angeles Times

You can call Courtney B. Vance an 'overnight sensation.' But you'd be wrong

Since his debut in the original Broadway productions of August Wilson's "Fences" and John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation," Courtney B. Vance has jumped between stage and screen, playing an extensive gallery of strong, vibrant characters in a career that has spanned almost four decades.

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Broadway comes blasting back in April

NEW YORK — April, a poet famously said, is the cruelest month. But on Broadway, it’s the month of amazing, unbridled optimism.

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K-pop musical starring Luna heading to Broadway this fall

NEW YORK — They’ve conquered film. They’ve taken over the music industry. They’ve crushed ratings on TV.

The Times of India

Tamil Nadu: 5 surrender before magistrate in DMK worker’s murder

CHENNAI: Five suspects, including an AIADMK functionary, surrendered before a magistrate at Chengalpet court on Monday after a DMK man was murdered in public view at Broadway bus stand on Sunday.

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