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David Barbour
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Editor and theatre critic, Lighting&Sound America. Film fanatic in my spare time. Also fond of cocktails and wisecracks.
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Broadway: All that glitters is...well, you know:

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Theatre in Review: The Queen of Versailles (St. James Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
It's almost a tradition: Every couple of decades, Stephen Schwartz writes a musical starring Kristin Chenoweth as a morally compromised heroine. Okay, it's happened exactly twice, but the last time .....
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November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Ms. Davis can now return to the holler:

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Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision
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November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Off Broadway: After a bumpy start, this is a gripping view of the American dream from the underside, as seen by a collection of undocumented immigrants:

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Theatre in Review: Queens (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center Stage I) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
These are pugilistic days at Manhattan Theatre Club. On Broadway, the recently closed Punch focuses on the many repercussions following a blow to the head delivered during a gang fight. Queens begins ...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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"The Washington Post reports that 'at least' five members of an antisemitism taskforce at the organization have resigned in protest. One staffer in the internal meeting called the issue her 'final straw'."

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Heritage Foundation leader apologizes for backing Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist
Kevin Roberts, whose group pushed Project 2025, had defended ex-Fox News host’s talk with Nick Fuentes
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November 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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What's a mustard-scarred ICE agent to do?

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Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault
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November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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You absolutely would not want to be, or be anywhere near, any bottle of ketchup in what remains of the White House today.
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Unhinged MAGA maniacs.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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"I could smell the onions and mustard"
wwi soldiers in the trenches with gas masks
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Off Broadway: The art of the deal is vividly on display in this high-energy docudrama about the global fight against climate change:

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Theatre in Review: Kyoto (Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
Kyoto, now commanding the Newhouse stage with uncommon fire, is the type of production that makes Lincoln Center Theater indispensable -- a sweeping, large-canvas drama about contemporary political .....
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November 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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He's going to have to open a used-car dealership:

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Tesla struggles in Europe as new car registrations fall 90%
Competition from Chinese rivals, Tesla’s aging lineup, and a backlash against CEO Elon Musk’s political activism are behind the decline.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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If there were an Oscar for chutzpah:

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CBS News heavily edits Trump 60 Minutes interview, cutting boast network ‘paid me a lotta money’
Trump said Paramount’s sale to David and Larry Ellison was ‘greatest thing that’s happened in a long time’ for free press
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November 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Broadway: A visit to Samuel D. Hunter's Idaho is always worthwhile, especially when Laurie Metcalf is onboard:

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Theatre in Review: Little Bear Ridge Road (Booth Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
Like many of Samuel D. Hunter's plays, Little Bear Ridge Road is a miniature that contains multitudes. Focusing on a trio of characters in his home state of Idaho, a stretch of the Northwest he has .....
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October 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Last season's best play comes to Broadway with its superb cast intact:

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Theatre in Review: Liberation (James Earl Jones Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
The good news: Liberation -- to my mind, the best new American play of last season -- has transferred to Broadway in tiptop shape. The even better news: It has arrived with its superb cast intact. ...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Off Broadway: Do the Irish naturally understand Beckett better than anyone else?

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Theatre in Review: Endgame (Druid/Irish Arts Center) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
Garry Hynes' production of Samuel Beckett's classic study of stasis, oppression, and (quite possibly) the end of the world derives much of its effect from the yawning gap between the characters' ...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Broadway: The moment couldn't be more ripe for this sterling revival:

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Theatre in Review: Ragtime (Lincoln Center Theater/Vivian Beaumont Theater) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
If Lear DeBessonet's new production of this modern musical classic makes anything clear, it is that Ragtime is our time. Terrence McNally's book wrangles E. L. Doctorow's seemingly unadaptable novel, ...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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is it this
October 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Jen Tullock, of the series Severance, stars in this tricky solo piece about a lesbian writer confronting her evangelical upbringing. As they say, the past is another country:

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Theatre in Review: Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God (Playwrights Horizons) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
Frances Reinhardt, the hurricane eye of Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God, is skilled at harvesting lucrative popular art from her embarrassing and/or traumatic past. Having fled her ...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Kids today...

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Broadway and Off: Beckett-a-rama: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in an unlikely Godot and Stephen Rea rolling Krapp's Last Tape:

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Theatre in Review: Waiting for Godot (Hudson Theatre)/Krapp's Last Tape (NYU Skirball) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
How do you like your Samuel Beckett? Frothy and starry, or straight, no chaser? In New York this week, you have a choice: A slicked-up revival of Waiting for Godot, starring Hollywood's once and ...
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October 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Off Broadway: Jane Austen gets another roughing in this bizarro-world Pride and Prejudice:

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Theatre in Review: Are the Bennet Girls OK? (Bedlam/West End Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
In a word, no. Frankly, the Bennet Girls -- each of whom, in Emily Breeze's new play, lives on the edge of a conniption fit -- could use a nice, long vacation, a grand tour, perhaps, where they might ...
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October 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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And this is what they worry about.
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They literally only know how to be victims
October 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Broadway: Three stars have a lot of fun onstage. But is it art?

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Theatre in Review: Art (Music Box Theatre) - Lighting&Sound America Online News
Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris are having a high old time on stage at the Music Box these nights. You might, too. Depending.<br>Yasmina Reza unleashed a commercial juggernaut ....
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October 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM