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David Mamet’s New Play About Harvey Weinstein Is a Dud

‘Bitter Wheat’ stars John Malkovich as a Weinstein-like Hollywood mogul and abuser. The play has been billed as a comedy and farce, but the audience isn't laughing.

LOSS

The Boom and Bust of Lehman Brothers Is Not Good Theater

‘The Lehman Trilogy’ promises to tell the rise and fall of an American banking institution, but it is woefully lacking when it comes to charting the disaster that finished it off.

Benedict Nightingale

Masterful

Inside the Radical, Mischievous Mind of Tom Stoppard

As the Tony Award-winning play ‘Travesties’ returns to Broadway, Benedict Nightingale celebrates playwright Tom Stoppard’s witty and powerful interrogations of culture and power.

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Winning

Everybody Might Soon Be Talking About ‘Jamie’ on Broadway

The true story of a working-class teenager who loves dressing up in drag has been turned into a British theatrical hit. Now ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ may come to New York.

Benedict Nightingale

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Frights

The Alien Feeling of Watching ‘The Twilight Zone’ on Stage

‘The Twilight Zone’ has been reimagined as a play, which just premiered in London. It feels a lot messier than the pristinely scary and alarming TV episodes of old.

Benedict Nightingale

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David Mamet’s New Play About Harvey Weinstein Is a Dud

The Boom and Bust of Lehman Brothers Is Not Good Theater

Inside the Radical, Mischievous Mind of Tom Stoppard

Everybody Might Soon Be Talking About ‘Jamie’ on Broadway

The Alien Feeling of Watching ‘The Twilight Zone’ on Stage

Bryan Cranston Is as Mad as Hell, and Brilliant at It

Sir Ian McKellen Is the Best Demon in ‘The Exorcist’

Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Wins? This Play Needs Your Vote

There’s a Musical Devoted to Bob Dylan, and It’s Brilliant

This Is How Sam Shepard Revolutionized Theater