Three 2026 productions open themselves to different interpretations based on whether you recognize their directors on stage.
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Tag: New York City Serenades
Choir Praxis
A specific moment in Cold War Choir Practice functions as a testament to its artistic finesse, and doubles as a metaphor for one of this new play’s primary themes.
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Putting the Ex in Deus Ex Machina
Fallen Angels’ Maurice feels designed to be cast as a celebrity cameo.
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No Small Parts
There’s a meaningful disparity between Taraji P. Henson’s fame relative to the rest of her Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ensemble, and the size of her role.
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Hide and Seek
Musicals are considered a fluffy medium.
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Goliath
David Cale’s last two plays feel like companion pieces, about artists whose interrelated thirst for companionship and literary inspiration bleeds the porous psychic boundaries between their personal lives and their art.
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For the Records
Who is Every Brilliant Thing about?
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Non
Spit&vigor’s Anonymous is the sort of Alcoholics Anonymous art that Playwrights Horizons’ The Dinosaurs challenges.
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We’re Going Breaking
Midwinter Break is what I like to call a city-travelogue romance.
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Talked to Death
Hate Radio is Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest for the Rwandan genocide.
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