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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Jesse Green
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. John Krasinski in “Angry Alan” at Studio Seaview in Manhattan. His character believes himself to be supportive and reliable, though the play keeps dropping heavy hints to the contrary. In an Off Broadway play, the former Jim Halpert of Dunder Mifflin dives into a darker world of male grievance. Roger is jazzed.
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nytimes.com | Michael Paulson |Jesse Green |Alexis Soloski |Derrick Bryson Taylor |Elisabeth Vincentelli |Rachel Sherman | +2 more
Nicole Scherzinger, Cole Escola and Sarah Snook were first-time winners, while the original cast of “Hamilton” reunited for a performance.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Jesse Green
Amber Iman lives up to the title of a musical about the divine gift of song. If you're going to call your show "Goddess," you'd better have one handy. Luckily, the musical with that name that opened on Tuesday at the Public Theater stars Amber Iman, who fully fits the bill.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Jesse Green
1 hour agoDarren Criss stood up, fast asleep, his head heavy. When he awoke, he reverse body rolled, slowly turned his head from side to side, then brushed his teeth, mechanically moving his toothbrush — left, right, left — like a cartoon character. But this was no cartoon come to life (that would be “Boop!,” …
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Jesse Green
Our chief theater critic looks at this year's nominees and weighs in on the plays, musicals and artists he thinks will - and should - take home trophies on June 8. Tony voters do not have it easy. As the quality of (some) shows on Broadway improves, so does the difficulty and futility of ranking them.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Jesse Green
A judge used Trump’s own words to expose his real agendaThe president and those around him just had to brag — and Howell turned their own words against them. In issuing a permanent injunction halting the …
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Jesse Green
When James Joyce's masterpiece faced banning, the American justice system came to the rescue. A new play wonders if it would today. The United States vs Ulysses Though it was a civil case, the defendant faced capital punishment. Or so the defendant's attorney, Morris Ernst, argued, because his client was a book. And not just any book, but a particular copy of James Joyce's "Ulysses" that had been impounded at U.S. Customs and charged with obscenity.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Jesse Green |Alexis Soloski |Scott Heller
Ensemble-driven plays like "Purpose" and "English" received a slew of nominations, while Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal and Idina Menzel were overlooked. Stars abounded. Attendance rebounded. Performers raised the roof and so did ticket prices. This was a big season for Broadway, finally achieving a credible post-Covid rebuild - but as what? Think of the Tony Award nominations as tea leaves, hinting at where the commercial theater has been and predicting where it's going.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Jesse Green
Clockwise from top left: "Oh, Mary!"; "Maybe Happy Ending"; "Yellow Face"; and "Gypsy." Credit... Sara Krulwich/The New York Times; top right: Jeenah Moon for The New York Times Though the official Tony Awards nominations aren't scheduled to be announced until Thursday, I give you my unofficial ones right now. If it were up to me, these would be the nominees.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Jesse Green
A Broadway remake of the operetta, starring David Hyde Pierce, moves the plot to the Big Easy, where good times roll, even if some jokes don't quite land. Pirates! The Penzance Musical W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, the operetta kings of 19th-century Britain, had a hit in America with "H.M.S. Pinafore," but they reaped no American fortune from it.
