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    Plot Twists, Slick and Surreal: Job and Six CharactersA tech-thriller unknots itself on Broadway, and a metatheatrical revolution keeps probing.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Kathleen Tolan, Connie Schulman, and Lizbeth Mackay in Clubbed Thumb's 2024 production of FIND ME HERE.
    Three-Sister Harmony in Find Me HerePlus an array of short-run summer shows to watch for if they return.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Looking Back at Bad Men: Dark Noon and Pre-Existing ConditionColonialism and abuse, addressed onstage.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Time Out of Mind: The Welkin and HilmaTwo plays that mess with your sense of now.
    By Sara Holdren
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    There and Back Again, in Home, Breaking the Story, and What Became of UsThree onstage journeys between realms.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Isolation, Set to Harmony: Three Houses and The Lonely FewBlue notes from lockdown and from musicians on the road.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Love and Brains, Dull and Sharp: The Notebook and The EffectA musical adaptation that’s generic to the point of inanity, and a play that asks and examines real questions about what a person is.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Alone in the Dark: I Love You So Much I Could Die and On Set With Theda BaraTwo solo shows, looking to make the most of limited resources—and one, at least, soars.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Reviews: Onstage, Trauma Times 3Reviews of Munich Medea, Self Portraits (DELUXE), and you don’t have to do anything.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    We’re in This Together: Bark of Millions and The Following EveningA maximalist performance and a quiet, inward-looking play—both, somehow, about creative legacy and earthly mystery.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Quiet Obsessions, Unplugged: Aberdeen and The Animal KingdomA verse play about Kurt, and a therapy play about hurt.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Dramatizing Desire and Addiction in Jonah and The White ChipA twisty, emotional drama and a straight-down-the-line recovery comedy.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Diary of an Overbooked Theater-Festival Surfer: Week ThreeJack! Rose! Jack! Rose! And Eugene Onegin.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Diary of an Overbooked Theater-Festival Surfer: Week TwoPuppets, worms, toilets, and a really aggressive Shakespeare take.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Diary of an Overbooked Theater-Festival Surfer: Week OneOn finding eccentric Miranda July commentary and gonzo race commentary during January’s experimental-theater blitz.
    By Sara Holdren
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    When the Play’s Not the ThingToo often, great performances and stagecraft are let down by the script behind them.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Reflections on Lost Lands: Manahatta and Life & Times of Michael KOnstage, the commoditization of Lenape land and the reclamation of a South African farm.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Language As Engine: Helen. and MahineratorA feminist Trojan War parable and a monologue that leaps right over the desk to grab you.
    By Sara Holdren
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    How It Went Down, Revised: Salesman之死 and Room, Room, Room …Two plays that find power in strange historical corners.
    By Sara Holdren
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    Improv on the Roof, Catharsis in Aisle 5What Else Is True? and Joan of Arc in a Supermarket in California leave our critic saying, “Yes, and …?”
    By Sara Holdren
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    The Epic and Hyperspecific in Half-God of Rainfall and Let’s Call Her PattyThe gods shoot hoops; Rhea Perlman chops onions.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Dropping by the Local Nazis: Alex Edelman’s Just for UsPlus: Liz Kingsman’s One Woman Show, and the state of solo comedy meta-theater.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Patterns of Addiction in Days of Wine and Roses and Wet BrainOne decorous, one unleashed.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Looking for Connection in Primary Trust and The FearsIsolation is on everyone’s mind.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Basketball and Debutante Balls in King James and The CotillionPlays about the codes of masculinity and femininity, LeBron and dance steps.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    All in this Together: How to Defend Yourself and The Coast StarlightA classic playwrighting gambit: trap a bunch of people in one small space and brew up some trouble.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    When Online Drama Begets Stage DramaSeven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner and Your Sexts Are Shit will have you wondering, yet again, about being extremely online.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Putting the Unsaid at the Center: The Far Country and Des MoinesLloyd Suh and Denis Johnson, in very different ways, try to let the audience fill in the blank spaces.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    POTUS and Mr. Saturday Night Mine Laughs From Behind the ScenesTwo comedies about the business of image-making.
    By Helen Shaw
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    What’s Off-Off: From William F. Buckley to Unmarked GravesReviewed: A Song of Songs, Man Cave, Hart Island, and Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley.
    By Helen Shaw
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    The Little Shows Must Go On: This Beautiful Future and EctoplasmSmall, imperfect, lovely — tales of love in last century’s wreckage.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Lagos Soaps and Superstitious Hopes: Nollywood Dreams and “The Pool Plays”Light and funny and weird on these dark days.
    By Helen Shaw
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    The Risks and Rewards of Theater About Right NowThe Visitor rips itself apart, and Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord will sew you back together.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Fairycakes Never Takes FlightA play employing every theatrical sprite is pinned down by its leaden meter.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Figuring Out Failure in the First Person: The Nosebleed and HindsightIn these two plays, things aren’t going great.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Haunted Houses: Samuel and Definition Make Emptiness the PointNot quite installation art, not quite full-on theater, but something in between that I’ll miss when it’s gone.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Light-Touch Theater: 3 Shows That Welcome Us Back, TentativelyThe one to see is Liminal Archive, at the New Ohio.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Two Digital Theater Projects Pretend to Put 20-Somethings’ Lives on the LineTheater Reviews: ’The Kill One Race’ and ‘Capricorn 29’
    By Helen Shaw
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    Romeo and Juliet, Horny on MainThe TV film starring Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley is the lust-dazed, modern-dress version of the Shakespeare tragedy you didn’t know you needed.
    By Helen Shaw
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    It’s Theater-Festival Season, in a Year When Everything’s Avant-Garde AnywayThe January of the Weird has arrived.
    By Helen Shaw
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    The Holidays Are a Drag: Taylor Mac and Joshua William Gelb Dress for ItReviews of Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce: Pandemic!, and Joshua William Gelb in Heather Christian’s I Am Sending You the Sacred Face.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Lifeboats and Lifelines: Two Musicals Make the Case for Not Giving Up’We’re Gonna Die’ and ‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown.’
    By Helen Shaw
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    Men to Watch in Cambodian Rock Band, Blues for an Alabama Sky, and The HeadlandsPerformers who hold your attention, even with uneven material.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Horror Stories of Womanhood: Dracula, Frankenstein, and Anatomy of a SuicideThe horrors.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Why We Gather: Three Shows As Three MeetingsWhere We Stand, Darling Grenadine, and Fragments, Lists & Lacunae all bring the audience into the production.
    By Helen Shaw
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    Just Talk But Sometimes More: The Conversationalists and The Truth Has ChangedThe pleasures, and pitfalls, of pure narration theater.
    By Helen Shaw
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    The Wild Invention of Fefu and Her Friends and A Bright Room Called DayFornés and Kushner, wild inventors both.
    By Helen Shaw
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    The Understated Charms of The Underlying Chris, and a High-Decibel CrucibleWill Eno, produced quietly, and Arthur Miller, not.
    By Helen Shaw
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    John Doyle’s Blankie Macbeth and Zawe Ashton’s Memorable for all the women…John Doyle’s severity, now with security blankets.
    By Helen Shaw
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    In the Green and We’re Only Alive… Are Two More Bursts of Musical-Theater EnergyTwo more from this summer’s group of invigorating new musicals.
    By Sara Holdren
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