17 Plays (and 3 Festivals) to Jazz Up Your June
Billy Porter, Wayne Brady, Sting and Suzan-Lori Parks are all slated to star on Off Broadway stages this month.
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Review: ‘Girls Girls Chance Chance Music Music’ Loves a Good Riff
In Eisa Davis’s new play with live music, at the Vineyard Theater, gifted teenagers find their own rhythms at a summer music program.
Review: ‘The Maids’ Makes a Ruckus but Not Enough Mess
Jean Genet’s psychosexual drama gets a social-media-heavy update. But what does it say beyond “internet=bad”?
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My Starring Role in ‘Heated Rivalry’ — for One Night Only
The unauthorized musical parody of the hit TV show gives the role of Scott Hunter to an unsuspecting audience member — and one recent night that was me.
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‘The Maids,’ With Yerin Ha, Asks: Has Life Become One Big Performance?
In his rethinking of Jean Genet’s classic work about class and power, Kip Williams ponders “a world that gives you every opportunity not to be yourself.”
Theater (Off Broadway)
Winning the Housing Lottery Allowed This Actress to Stay on Broadway
An actress struggled to find both work and an affordable apartment in New York. When she got a studio in a lottery, she could turn her focus to the stage.
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Finding Our Shared Geography in Monologues
Kathryn Grody’s “The Unexpected 3rd,” Leslie Ayvazian’s “Mention My Beauty” and Liza Jessie Peterson’s “The Peculiar Patriot” are among the solo shows at the In the Bricks Festival.
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A Beloved Theater Festival Is Back. Let the Adventures Begin.
With the new play “Titans,” Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks series opens with a sharp ensemble work.
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‘The Emporium’ Review: Thornton Wilder Doesn’t Make the Sale
This newly discovered play by Wilder is part picaresque, part fable, featuring a Midwestern boy who dreams of working at a department store in the big city.
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Review: In ‘Dad Don’t Read This’ a Playwright (Maybe?) Grows Up
Eliya Smith’s disturbing teen dramedy explores the ambivalence and confusion of life on the brink of adulthood.