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Highlights

Review: In a Nostalgic Revival, ‘Home’ Is Where the Heart Was
Samm-Art Williams’s 1979 play about the uprooting of a Black farmer returns to Broadway for the first time.
By Jesse Green
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Review: In ‘Breaking the Story,’ All’s Unfair in Love and War
Maggie Siff plays a war journalist facing the most dangerous assignment of her life: domesticity.
By Jesse Green
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1. Little Island Gets a Reboot, With a Rising Star at the Helm
  Zack Winokur, an ambitious dancer-turned-director, now has a New York stage to call his own as the park’s artistic leader.
  By Joshua Barone
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2. ‘What Became of Us’ Review: Reflections on a Family’s Immigration Tale
  Shayan Lotfi’s topical play about a family building a new life in a new country leaves the details vague, deliberately.
  By Laura Collins-Hughes
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Public Theater Takes Shakespeare in the Park Out on the Town
The Delacorte Theater is being renovated, so a musical version of “The Comedy of Errors” is touring some of the city’s outdoor spaces.
By Alexis Soloski
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Jez Butterworth’s ‘The Hills of California’ to Open on Broadway
The play, about a group of English sisters who reunite at their mother’s deathbed, plans to open in New York in September. It ends a London run this month.
By Michael Paulson
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When the Stage Harnesses the Power of the Movies
Adaptations of films will be a factor at the Tonys this year. Surprisingly the best of these shows are not always the most faithful.
By Alissa Wilkinson
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Critic’s Notebook
Luther Vandross, Pop Perfectionist, Didn’t Want You to Hear These Albums
Early records reveal that his sumptuous voice and longing lyrics were there from the start. Out of print since 1977, “This Close to You” will be available Friday.
By Ross Scarano
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Janis Paige, Star of Broadway’s ‘The Pajama Game,’ Is Dead at 101
She first made her mark in the all-star 1944 movie “Hollywood Canteen” before finding acclaim on the musical stage. Movie and TV roles followed.
By Anita Gates
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Dolly Parton Says a Musical About Her Life Is Broadway Bound
The show, expected to arrive on Broadway in 2026, will be called “Hello, I’m Dolly.”
By Michael Paulson
What if the Disabled Characters Were Just Going About Their Day?
Madison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez star in the meet-cute “All of Me” — proof that depictions of disability onstage don’t have to be “a buzz kill,” as Ferris puts it.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
Nonfiction
Congress Signed the Checks, but Artists Paid the Price
In “The Playbook,” James Shapiro offers a resonant history of the Federal Theater Project, a Depression-era program that gave work to writers and actors until politics took center stage.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
Audra McDonald to Star in ‘Gypsy’ Revival on Broadway This Fall
The six-time Tony-winning actress will play musical theater’s most famous stage mother in a production directed by George C. Wolfe.
By Michael Paulson
Review: For ‘Molly Sweeney,’ Not Seeing Was Never the Obstacle
The Irish Rep ends its season-long Brian Friel survey with the story of a blind woman who undergoes an operation to try to restore her sight.
By Naveen Kumar
Two More ‘Succession’ Actors Are Broadway Bound, in ‘Job’
Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon will star in the two-hander, a psychological thriller that previously found success downtown.
By Michael Paulson
‘Bluets’ Review: This Maggie Nelson Adaptation Is All About the Vibes
How do you bring an almost plotless book of elliptical fragments to the stage? The director Katie Mitchell has tried with three actors, four screens and three bottles of whiskey.
By Houman Barekat
Wayne Brady and Nichelle Lewis on Striving for Excellence in ‘The Wiz’
The veteran and the newcomer each had their own fears as they joined the Broadway revival of the beloved all-Black musical.
By Salamishah Tillet
Brooke Shields Elected President of Stage Actors’ Union
She takes office immediately. The previous leader of Actors’ Equity, Kate Shindle, had been president since 2015, and did not run again.
By Michael Paulson
Critic’s Pick
Review: In ‘The Fires,’ a Triptych of Stories About Gay Men and Love
Raja Feather Kelly makes his playwriting debut with a spellbinding story of three generations of Black men at Soho Rep.
By Brittani Samuel