Juan A. Ramirez

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In their very funny, very loose Molière adaptation, Taylor Mac plays an artist commissioned to mount a dance piece for a glossy ballet company’s annual benefit as it honors a beloved actress whose nonstop philanthropy beats all into dazzled adoration and a pharma-tech manchild looking to launder his reputation.

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BroadwayJean Smart | Photo: Emilio MadridPerhaps the most striking realization I had during Call Me Izzy, Jamie Wax’s one-person play in which a Louisiana woman fights against docility through her secret writing hobby, is how closely the indomitable Jean Smart, who plays her, can resemble Elaine Stritch. The one-acter follows Izzy, who’s long been stuck in a horrifically abusive marriage at a trailer park in her native town.

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With his immediately affable, borderline derpy demeanor, John Krasinski is the ideal Roger, the disaffected, suburban nice-guy who finds his own ideal in the play Angry Alan’s eponymous online personality. Though slowly spinning out following the loss of his job, and increasingly emasculated after his ex-wife’s walking out, he registers as harmless, even friendly.

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Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Tatianna Córdoba, Getty Images, Everett Collection, Retailers Just a few years out of college, Tatianna Córdoba has already made her Broadway debut. Her performance as Ana in the new musical Real Women Have Curves is earning the kind of raves that launched America Ferrera, who played the role in the 2002 movie, into stardom.

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It’s tempting to describe Hannah Moscovitch’s 2020 play, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, about a professor-student relationship, as a shifty game of cat and mouse, or any of the other seductive phrases typically assigned to stories of sexual imbalance. But the one-act, premiering in New York in a minimally staged, maximally potent production starring Hugh Jackman and Ella Beatty, is slipperier than that – less interested in the drama of the chase than in how it's processed and portrayed.