NYT Theater Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry are communing once again this fall, in productions of “Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge” and “A Raisin in the Sun” at the Public Theater. https://t.co/JKP5qoODCu

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This immersive staging of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic, “The Great Gatsby,” invites audience members to join the party, but the pared-down pathos of the novel is stretched too thin. https://t.co/o2uOonTWQP

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Annie Ryan’s stage adaptation of “A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing” is getting a gorgeously lucid, intimate production at the Irish Repertory Theater.  https://nyti.ms/3CB5WWw

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When does cruelty as a dramatic focal point in itself turn excessive, or at least cease to be compelling, our critic asks in his review of “A Little Life,” Ivo van Hove’s stage adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s novel. https://t.co/DLNLZd8eok

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Rejecting traditional theater settings, Keen Company’s production of “The Year of Magical Thinking” is being performed in living rooms and community spaces around N.Y.C., and capturing Joan Didion’s essence in the process, our critic writes. https://t.co/hvk8yX5cYv

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“The Chinese Lady” is a moving and often sharply funny riff on the story of the real Afong Moy, traversing 188 years of American ugliness and exoticization in 90 swift, heightened minutes, our critic writes. https://nyti.ms/3sWhSRg

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Though best known as the author of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” Betty Smith wrote more plays than she did novels. The Mint Theater’s staging of her 1931 play “Becomes a Woman” is now open at New York City Center. https://t.co/C3378zXhXL

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The one-man show “A Christmas Carol” will come to Broadway this holiday season, with Jefferson Mays, a Tony Award winner with a lifelong passion for the Charles Dickens story, playing more than 50 roles, including a potato. https://t.co/h7cNzYIJvw

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Zadie Smith brings her first play, “The Wife of Willesden,” to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. But despite the punch and panache of the writing, audience members may find themselves caught up in a tale going nowhere, our critic writes. https://t.co/CL0SL7tp8S

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Bedlam's adaptation of Jane Austen's "Persuasion" attempts to convince its audience that it’s the snappy modern-age stage rom-com that we need, but it fails to translate the wit and delights of Austen's original, our critic writes. https://t.co/urethE72Ae

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