Review: ‘Springsteen on Broadway’ Reveals the Artist, Real and Intense
In a hybrid of concert and autobiography, Bruce Springsteen delivers a major statement about his life’s work — but also a major revision of it.
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CreditRichard Termine for The New York Times Review: A Requiem Mass With a Southern Twang in ‘Animal Wisdom’
Heather Christian communes with — and possibly exorcises — the spirits of the dead in a truly one-of-a-kind performance piece
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CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times LuPone Surgery Forces ‘War Paint’ to Announce Early Closing
The musical, about dueling cosmetics executives, will wrap up on Nov. 5.
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CreditTom Jamieson for The New York Times She Was About to Quit Acting. Then She Got the Role of a Lifetime.
Denise Gough brings her award-winning turn as an addict to St. Ann’s Warehouse, and will follow that up with “Angels in America” on Broadway.
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CreditEduardo Placer ‘Brilliant,’ 41 and Lost to AIDS: The Theater World Asks Why
The death of Michael Friedman, a much-admired composer and lyricist, has left friends and fellow artists asking if they could have done more to help him amid signs of trouble.
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CreditRichard Termine Review: A Richard III Who Steps Straight Out of the Land of Id
An astonishing Lars Eidinger is a hunchback to remember in Thomas Ostermeier’s Halloween treat of a production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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CreditPasadena Playhouse An ‘Our Town’ Image as Sturdy as a Chair
The designer Paula Scher talks about her artwork for a revival of the Thornton Wilder play at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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CreditJoan Marcus Review: A Student of the Classics, Hip-Hop Variety, in ‘Syncing Ink’
NSangou Njikam’s good-natured but overlong play sends a nerdy teenager into rap battle, and beyond.
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CreditGerald Llorence/Houston First Corporation Houston’s Wortham Theater Center, Weeks After Harvey Struck
Repairing the damage to the home of the Houston Grand Opera and the Houston Ballet, which have relocated temporarily, will take at least eight months.
