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Category: Theater
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Readers on the Best Movies, TV, Music and Theater of 2023
When our critics shared their top film, TV, pop music and theater picks, readers suggested “Billions,” “The Holdovers,” “Sabbath’s Theater” and others.
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He Made ‘Seven Brides’ Less Sexist. But Can He Stage It?
David Landay, an author of the 1982 stage musical, reworked a kidnapping scene for a 2021 production. Now he’s suing the estates of his coauthors for the right to keep going.
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‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Review: Bringing a Classic Record to Life
A new Off Broadway musical adds the thrill of intimacy and the weight of history to the Cuban songs popularized on a 1997 album.
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Andre Braugher’s Career, From Homicide’ to ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’
The versatile actor was most known for vastly different portrayals of TV cops, but also shone in roles across film and stage.
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24 Things That Stuck With Us in 2023
Films, TV shows, albums, books, art and A.I.-generated SpongeBob performances that reporters, editors and visual journalists in Culture couldn’t stop thinking about this year.
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Read Your Way Through Madrid
Like many who call Madrid home, Elena Medel was born elsewhere, but forged her identity in the Spanish capital. Here, she recommends books about this city that “refuses to be reduced to an ideal.”
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Alicia Keys’s ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ to Open on Broadway This Spring
The musical, now midway through a sold-out Off Broadway run at the Public Theater, will transfer to the Shubert Theater in March.
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Broadway Babies, Singing Show Tunes for Seniors
What happened when four young theater actors performed for an older generation? “I was expecting to have the best show ever and that happened.”
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10 Performances That Pushed Emotional Limits
For our critic-at-large, the year was marked by the Black excellence of “Purlie Victorious,” the brutality of “Bottoms” and rage of “Beef.”