‘1776’ Review: Bold Choices Enliven Broadway Revival of Revolutionary Musical
The opening moments of this exuberant, thought-provoking and radical revival of “1776” makes it clear who was missing from John Trumbull’s famous painting of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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The Gorgeous ‘Cost of Living’ Depicts Disability in Groundbreaking Ways
Last season, Martyna Majok stunned audiences with her gripping portrayal of immigrant life in Sanctuary City; now her earlier play, Cost of Living, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2018, is making its Broadway debut–as is the playwright. Last year I extolled her work as “off-Broadway at its best,” and this year I […]
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Loss and Remembrance are at the Heart of the Magnificent ‘Leopoldstadt’
Everything in Leopoldstadt unfolds like a game of cat’s cradle. It’s 1899 and the Merz & Jakobovicz family portrait is one of abundance and contentment. The conversations flow along with whiskey and music, as family members discuss Freud’s latest theories, which Hermann Merz (David Krumholtz) disdains, mathematician Riemann’s still unsolved hypothesis, which Ludwig Jakobovicz (Brandon […]
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