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  1. “Islander,” a hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, combines Scottish folklore and live looping technology.

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  2. “What this festival is going to do over time is create these questions in the minds of people: Who else is out there? Who should be seen in New York? That’s the power of it,” said Karen Hartman, whose work is being celebrated by the Volt Festival.

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    Broadway theaters will continue to require audiences to wear masks at least through June 30.

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  4. May 19

    In a Broadway season that followed such a long, grim pandemic intermission, simply encountering a gorgeous set could be its own source of delight.

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  5. May 19

    Alison Saar’s statue of the playwright Lorraine Hansberry will be unveiled in Times Square in June as part of a new initiative to honor her legacy.

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  6. May 19

    On the 40th anniversary of “Little Shop of Horrors,” members of the cast and creative team from the original production, as well as the current Off Broadway revival, looked back on the show’s enduring influence.

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  7. May 19

    Myles Frost, at 22, is starring in “MJ,” the new Broadway musical about Michael Jackson. And now he’s a Tony nominee.

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  8. May 19

    “If I can get people to lean forward a little bit until they try to project themselves onto the stage, that’s pretty incredible,” said Adam Rigg, who designed the wild set for “The Skin of Our Teeth.”

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    "There’s a feeling you get when you listen to his music that makes you want to dance." Meet 22-year-old Myles Frost, who is now a Tony nominee while making his Broadway debut playing Michael Jackson in "MJ."

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  10. May 19

    In “Slippery Slope,” a musical about cancel culture at the Theatertreffen festival in Berlin, everything is so loopy and chock-full of schlock that there’s little danger of anyone taking offense.

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  11. May 18

    Discovering what the students are in for, and what that says about their stations in life, propels the story forward in “Exception to the Rule."

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    How Broadway learned to keep going in a post-shutdown, but not-yet-post-Covid, era: “It’s not over, but I think there’s a heady sense of relief that we can actually go on.”

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  13. May 18

    Uzo Aduba hugging Jesse Williams. Kara Young bowing before Mary-Louise Parker. The first Meet the Nominees Tonys event since 2019 felt as if some kind of new normal was around the corner. The season, however, was anything but.

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  14. May 18

    It was in many ways the kind of Broadway season our critics have been asking for: more serious, more diverse, more experimental. And yet it remains to be seen whether that hope is misplaced in a commercial environment.

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  15. May 18

    A Broadway season like no other will be honored at this year’s Tony Awards. It’s been quite a journey getting there.

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  16. May 18

    Who will win (and should win) Tony Awards this year? Our chief theater critic, , offers his picks in a hard-to-predict Broadway year, plus nods to shows from Off Broadway and other, odder corners.

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    “A Beautiful Noise,” a new musical about Neil Diamond, plans a fall opening on Broadway, a few months after a run in Boston that starts next month.

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  18. May 17

    “Golden Shield” is a legal drama, a romance, a story of sibling estrangement, and a cautionary tale about technology and the cost of political activism.

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  19. May 17

    Theater has always been a team sport. But this Covid-stalked Broadway season has made crystal clear that the Tonys need to add an award for the entire cast.

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  20. May 17

    “I have noticed in my career,” the Tony nominee LaChanze said, “that roles that I’ve gotten are roles of women who have experienced trauma.” She added, “People feel comfortable making me, as a dark-skinned Black woman, a victim of some kind of violence.”

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