Critic’s Notebook
Deep Dives Into Justice From Shakespeare, Wilde and Atticus Finch
With “The Tempest,” “An Ideal Husband” and “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the Stratford Festival carries on a conversation about purity and forgiveness.
Highlights
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Photo CreditJoan Marcus Review: Mike Birbiglia Has a ‘New One.’ It’s Funny Until It Isn’t.
Mr. Birbiglia’s solo show about becoming a father is at first excruciatingly funny and then just kind of excruciating.
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Photo CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times ‘The Boys in the Band’ and a Generational Divide
Four gay men who recently attended the Broadway revival of this 50-year-old play — three seeing it for the first time — debate its significance and relevance.
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Photo CreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times Anika Noni Rose Was Waiting for This Moment
It has taken a while, but playing the sultry title role in “Carmen Jones” fulfills a lifelong dream.
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Photo CreditAshley Connor Learning Lines. And Crossing Them.
A brief (recent) history of plays, films and TV shows exploring the fraught, sometimes predatory relationship between directors and their charges.
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Photo CreditAndrew Spear for The New York Times What Do 525 Ventriloquists Do at a Convention? Ask Their Dummies
Scenes from an annual “vent” gathering in Kentucky, where puppets rule and their masters crave respect for an unappreciated art form.
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Photo CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times Review: In a Blissful Musical ‘Twelfth Night’ in Central Park, Song Is Empathy
This radiant Public Works production of Shakespeare’s comedy of identity asks us “to see through the eyes of another.”
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Photo CreditCarol Rosegg Review: In ‘The Saintliness of Margery Kempe,’ a Comically Restless Mystic
A play based on a confessional, self-obsessed woman’s memoir — from the 15th century — is back, at the Duke.
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Photo CreditJenny Anderson for The New York Times 5 Shows to See in New York: ‘Pretty Woman,’ ‘Be More Chill’ and More
August turns out to be a month for musicals, with science fiction, a Hollywood rom-com and dueling garage bands on the agenda.
