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Helen Shaw has written about theater in New York since 2005, and for New York since 2019.

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    Theater Review: Electric Jolts From a Jukebox in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical“The show rests on three pillars: the excellent production, the most galvanizing catalogue in showbiz, and Adrienne Warren.”
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    Theater Review: A Cyrano Without the Nose? Even If He Sings?Peter Dinklage plays the secret romancer in this musical adaptation.
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    Theater: The Slow Launch and Rapid Rise of Dr. Ride’s American Beach HousePlus Radiohole’s Now Serving.
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    Theater Review: Alas, Poor HamnetShakespeare’s son, who died at 11, now has a smartphone.
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    Theater Review: Theresa Rebeck’s Seared Is a Pretty Light MealBackstage at a restaurant, romcom devices at play.
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    John Doyle’s Blankie Macbeth and Zawe Ashton’s Memorable for all the women…John Doyle’s severity, now with security blankets.
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    Theater Review: What If They Went to Moscow?, Where Stage and Screen MeldThe Man With a Movie Camera would’ve been astonished.
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    Fire Burn and Fryolator Bubble: Scotland, PA, Is a McNugget-Size MacbethNot lovin’ it.
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    Theater Review: 43 Years On, for colored girls… Returns to the PublicNtozake Shange’s groundbreaking dance-play-poetry hybrid, staged anew a year after her death.
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    There Is a Party, Everyone Is There: David Byrne’s American Utopia on Broadway’American Utopia’ is “a concert so beautifully and completely choreographed that it’s also a dance piece.”
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    Theater Review: The Sound Inside Just Keeps Looking at ItselfAdam Rapp’s play, starring Mary-Louise Parker, can’t get out of its own head.
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    Theater Review: Little Shop of Horrors Is a Bouquet With BiteA superior combo: Big-Broadway talent, community-theater energy.