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André De Shields of ‘Hadestown’ knows you’re never too old to reach for an EGOT
If the show wins a Grammy for best musical theater album, De Shields will only need an Oscar to complete the set
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A revival of ‘for colored girls’ feels fit for 2019
Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking choreopoem gets a new presentation in New York
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Lin-Manuel Miranda marries improv and hip-hop in ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’
It’s a show even C. Delores Tucker and Tipper Gore could love
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The unbearable whiteness of ‘Oklahoma!’
In new Broadway revival, the blinding sunshine of the Territory exposes the violence beneath the romantic myth
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In theater, the white gaze takes center stage
Three plays — ‘Fairview,’ ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ and ‘Toni Stone’ — highlight how black theater-makers approach audiences who do not look like them
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Pulitzer-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury wants her audience to feel awkward
Her play ‘Fairview’ wrestles with white audiences judging work by people of color
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Tony-nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau wants to make American theater better for black people
She’s nominated for her work on the hit Broadway musical ‘Ain’t Too Proud’
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‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ was snubbed in Tony nominations for best play. What a relief.
Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway adaptation ignores the racist Atticus who Harper Lee described in ‘Go Set a Watchman’
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Believe it or not: Two new plays feature modern characters volunteering to be slaves
Forget plausible. Is it defensible?