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David Finkle

March 31, 2020 4:29 pm

Intermission Talk: Bob Avian’s Fleet-Footed Show-Biz Memoir

The choreographer-director recalls his active career, including the Michael Bennett years

March 11, 2020 4:51 pm

Betty Buckley: Cabaret Artistry at Its Peak

★★★★★ Back in a small room, the Broadway diva is in new voice, adventurous, relaxed

March 10, 2020 9:01 pm

72 Miles to Go: Imperiled DACA Family Close Up

★★★★☆ Hilary Bettis handles a sensitive issue with understanding

March 5, 2020 9:46 pm

Girl From the North Country: Depression Musical Elates

★★★★★ Bob Dylan songs enhance grand Conor McPherson musical

March 3, 2020 10:03 pm

The Perplexed: Richard Greenberg Play Perplexes

★★★☆☆ Lynne Meadows directs 10 committed actors with little payoff

March 3, 2020 10:00 pm

Coal Country: 2010 Mining Disaster Stunningly Mined

★★★★☆ Theater documentarians Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen are in top form

March 2, 2020 7:00 pm

Bundle of Sticks: Women as Unhappy Gay Men!!

★★★☆☆ J. Julian Christopher’s play about dreaded conversion therapy

March 2, 2020 12:00 pm

From London: Kushner Visits Dürrenmatt’s The Visit

★★★☆☆ Lesley Manville is the vengeful Claire Zachanassian in director Jeremy Herrin’s production at the National

February 26, 2020 6:05 pm

From London: Death of England, A Number, and Endgame

Intellectual exercises with Rafe Spall, Roger Allam, Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe in worthy productions

February 23, 2020 6:00 pm

From London: Stoppard Potently Examines His Elusive Background in Leopoldstadt

★★★★★ For his supposedly last work, the revered playwright looks at vanished Viennese Jews

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Paranormal Activity: Cheap But Potent Thrills

By Frank Scheck

★★★★☆ Things go scarily bump in the night in the new stage thriller based on the hugely successful horror film franchise

Paranormal Activity: Nightmare Entertainment

By Michael Sommers

★★★☆☆ A supernatural story of possession packs a suspenseful two hours

The Real Ivanov: Diary of a Loser

By Michael Sommers

★★☆☆☆ Sam Underwood plays a woeful hero in a new version of Chekhov’s first drama

From Cambridge: Rhinoceros, Or Welcome to Zoo(dys)topia

By Bob Verini

★★★★★ John Turturro and Paul Giamatti topline a stunning cast in Diane Paulus’s revival, hilarious and horrifying by turns

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Melanie Moore in Black Swan. Photo by Hawver and Hall

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★★★★☆ Classy musicalization of a psychosexual cinethriller uses human and technical legerdemain to spellbind

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