Review: ‘A Chorus Line,’ Still High-Stepping but Showing Its Age
City Center’s production of the landmark musical from 1975 is a pleasure, an education and a problem.
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CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times Review: Reaching Across Korean Borders in ‘Wild Goose Dreams’
Hansol Jung’s industriously imaginative play uses visions of winged flight to explore the loneliness of two ambivalent lovers in Seoul.
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CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times Review: Raúl Esparza Becomes a Very Familiar Fascist in ‘Arturo Ui’
John Doyle’s inventive revival of Brecht’s 1941 satire about Adolf Hitler is more impressive for theatrical ingenuity than topicality.
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Review: At the Big Apple Circus, Discs Fly and So Do People
The Big Apple Circus returns with oversize airborne cranberries, a steamy aerial ballet and a prancing pig.
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CreditAndrew White for The New York Times You Can’t Spell Cher Without Her (and Her and Her)
How three Broadway actresses capture the essence of one superstar: Thank the costumes, “Burlesque” — and white teeth.
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CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times Yiddish ‘Fiddler’ to Continue Its Run at Stage 42
The unexpectedly popular production has already been extended four times at its original home, the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
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CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times Mike Birbiglia Sounds Off on Cellphones in His Theater
Four times recently he’s stopped his solo Broadway show to make his feelings known — gently but firmly. Getting too angry can backfire.
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CreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times How ‘A Chorus Line’ Veterans Pass It on to a New Generation
New York City Center’s gala production of the musical is being staged by Bob Avian and Baayork Lee, who have been with the show since its inception.
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CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times Review: Going From Schlub to Slick in ‘The Other Josh Cohen’
After eight years of development, a peppy musical about the value of persistence proves its own point.
