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David Barbour
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Editor and theatre critic, Lighting&Sound America. Film fanatic in my spare time. Also fond of cocktails and wisecracks.
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Broadway: We rarely get tragedy as pitiless as this:

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Theatre in Review: Oedipus (Studio 54) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
The most remarkable thing about Robert Icke's modern-dress reimagining of Sophocles' tragedy is its composure. Early on, you can sense the drumbeat under the dialogue that hints, quietly but ...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Off Broadway: Ethan Lipton treads where Bernstein, Comden, Green, Stein, Kander, and Ebb all ran aground in this musical based on The Skin of Our Teeth:

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Theatre in Review: The Seat of Our Pants (Public Theater) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
In The Seat of Our Pants, the human race is rescued, repeatedly, from disaster. The show isn't so lucky.<br>If Our Town is the Thornton Wilder play everyone produces, The Skin of Our Teeth is the one ...
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November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Off Broadway: Patrick Page and Kristine Nielsen, out of The Gilded Age, in a blackly farcical reimagining of a key 20th-century calamity:

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Theatre in Review: Archduke (Roundabout Theatre Company) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
If Rajiv Joseph ever had a career in Major League Baseball, he would have been a pitcher; he certainly is a specialist in throwing curveballs. Surely the only playwright in existence to twice build .....
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November 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Off Broadway: A far from perfect production, but Michael Urie is ready, willing, and able to take on the classic repertory:

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Theatre in Review: Richard II (Red Bull Theater/Astor Place Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
In Craig Baldwin's revival of William Shakespeare's most lyrical play, the title character is a man in a cage. Baldwin, who edited and rearranged bits of the original text, begins with Richard, ...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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They're protesing the new Communist regime by making even bigger real estate deals:

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Manhattan’s luxury deals thrive following NYC mayoral election
Buyers signed contracts for 40+ luxury homes, including a first for a condo at the Flatiron Building, per Olshan Realty.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Broadway: All that glitters is...well, you know:

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Theatre in Review: The Queen of Versailles (St. James Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
It's almost a tradition: Every couple of decades, Stephen Schwartz writes a musical starring Kristin Chenoweth as a morally compromised heroine. Okay, it's happened exactly twice, but the last time .....
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November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Ms. Davis can now return to the holler:

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Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision
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November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Off Broadway: After a bumpy start, this is a gripping view of the American dream from the underside, as seen by a collection of undocumented immigrants:

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Theatre in Review: Queens (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center Stage I) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
These are pugilistic days at Manhattan Theatre Club. On Broadway, the recently closed Punch focuses on the many repercussions following a blow to the head delivered during a gang fight. Queens begins ...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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"The Washington Post reports that 'at least' five members of an antisemitism taskforce at the organization have resigned in protest. One staffer in the internal meeting called the issue her 'final straw'."

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Heritage Foundation leader apologizes for backing Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist
Kevin Roberts, whose group pushed Project 2025, had defended ex-Fox News host’s talk with Nick Fuentes
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November 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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What's a mustard-scarred ICE agent to do?

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Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault
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November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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You absolutely would not want to be, or be anywhere near, any bottle of ketchup in what remains of the White House today.
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Unhinged MAGA maniacs.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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"I could smell the onions and mustard"
wwi soldiers in the trenches with gas masks
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Off Broadway: The art of the deal is vividly on display in this high-energy docudrama about the global fight against climate change:

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Theatre in Review: Kyoto (Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
Kyoto, now commanding the Newhouse stage with uncommon fire, is the type of production that makes Lincoln Center Theater indispensable -- a sweeping, large-canvas drama about contemporary political .....
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November 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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He's going to have to open a used-car dealership:

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Tesla struggles in Europe as new car registrations fall 90%
Competition from Chinese rivals, Tesla’s aging lineup, and a backlash against CEO Elon Musk’s political activism are behind the decline.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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If there were an Oscar for chutzpah:

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CBS News heavily edits Trump 60 Minutes interview, cutting boast network ‘paid me a lotta money’
Trump said Paramount’s sale to David and Larry Ellison was ‘greatest thing that’s happened in a long time’ for free press
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November 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Broadway: A visit to Samuel D. Hunter's Idaho is always worthwhile, especially when Laurie Metcalf is onboard:

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Theatre in Review: Little Bear Ridge Road (Booth Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
Like many of Samuel D. Hunter's plays, Little Bear Ridge Road is a miniature that contains multitudes. Focusing on a trio of characters in his home state of Idaho, a stretch of the Northwest he has .....
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October 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Last season's best play comes to Broadway with its superb cast intact:

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Theatre in Review: Liberation (James Earl Jones Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
The good news: Liberation -- to my mind, the best new American play of last season -- has transferred to Broadway in tiptop shape. The even better news: It has arrived with its superb cast intact. ...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Off Broadway: Do the Irish naturally understand Beckett better than anyone else?

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Theatre in Review: Endgame (Druid/Irish Arts Center) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
Garry Hynes' production of Samuel Beckett's classic study of stasis, oppression, and (quite possibly) the end of the world derives much of its effect from the yawning gap between the characters' ...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Broadway: The moment couldn't be more ripe for this sterling revival:

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Theatre in Review: Ragtime (Lincoln Center Theater/Vivian Beaumont Theater) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
If Lear DeBessonet's new production of this modern musical classic makes anything clear, it is that Ragtime is our time. Terrence McNally's book wrangles E. L. Doctorow's seemingly unadaptable novel, ...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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is it this
October 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Jen Tullock, of the series Severance, stars in this tricky solo piece about a lesbian writer confronting her evangelical upbringing. As they say, the past is another country:

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Theatre in Review: Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God (Playwrights Horizons) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
Frances Reinhardt, the hurricane eye of Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God, is skilled at harvesting lucrative popular art from her embarrassing and/or traumatic past. Having fled her ...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM