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    "pubDate": "2026-08-17T18:42:45.000Z",
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            "title": "‘An American Daughter’ Review: Wendy Wasserstein’s Cautionary Tale",
            "description": "The playwright’s drama about a woman’s troubled nomination for surgeon general arrives Off Broadway. It’s all very ’90s and still very now.",
            "pubDate": "2026-08-13T19:29:31.000Z",
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            "title": "Wagner Moura Puts Us on Trial in Edinburgh",
            "description": "Our chief theater critic, Helen Shaw, is in Scotland for the Edinburgh International Festival. For her, Christiane Jatahy’s modern reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People” was a difficult but valuable theater experience.",
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            "title": "‘The Winter’s Tale’ Review: A Fable That’s Fit for Summer",
            "description": "Shakespeare in the Park stages this melancholic comedy, which gives us a good excuse to spend time with Raúl Esparza and Lily Rabe as king and queen.",
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            "title": "Edinburgh Fringe: 8 Buzzy Shows to See",
            "description": "Whether on a constant treadmill, turning trauma into laughs or venturing into children’s entertainment, these acts are winning over viewers and critics.",
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            "title": "A ‘Schmigadoon!’ Cast Album and More Theater to Stream",
            "description": "Other streaming picks include a deft “Winter’s Tale,” a reimagining of a solo show about sex work and a ’70s production of Chekhov by tweens.",
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            "title": "A Puppet Festival That Asks, What if Judy Punched Back?",
            "description": "The International Puppet Fringe Festival brings dozens of shows, films, exhibits and workshops to the Lower East Side. This year, the focus is on women.",
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            "title": "‘Heated Rivalry’ Cried Out for Satire. Edinburgh Fringe Heard the Call.",
            "description": "With drag kings and blue tinsel, three unauthorized musical tributes at the festival embrace the absurdities of the hit TV show.",
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            "title": "This Playwright Says He’s Done With Maine. Let’s Hope Not.",
            "description": "John Cariani remains drawn to the state, despite having moved away years ago. A new production of his “Darker the Night, Brighter the Stars” illustrates why.",
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            "title": "Ari Emanuel’s Company to Acquire 7 Broadway Theaters and 10 in the West End",
            "description": "The purchase of ATG Entertainment, which operates dozens of venues worldwide, will require regulatory approval.",
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            "title": "‘Benevolent’ Review: Trapped Women Dreaming of Escape",
            "description": "With her usual irreverent humor, the playwright Sophie McIntosh mines the experiences of four young, cooped-up women at a Manhattan reformatory in 1917.",
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            "title": "Alia Shawkat and Charlotte Day Wilson on the Creative Life",
            "description": "“The Wrong Girls” actress Alia Shawkat and the R&B artist Charlotte Day Wilson discuss their views on creative collaboration, romantic love and spending time alone.",
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            "title": "At Edinburgh Fringe, Amanda Knox Takes the Mic to Reclaim Her Story",
            "description": "In a solo show at the Edinburgh Fringe, Knox is trying to turn her tabloid infamy into stand-up humor, despite an intense backlash.",
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            "title": "This ‘Heated Rivalry’ Musical Parody Skates a Fine and Funny Line",
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            "description": "From his studio in Maine, one of the last full-time ventriloquist puppet makers in the country combines mechanics, painting and performance to create one-of-a-kind characters.",
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            "title": "Bowen Yang to Make Broadway Debut as Mary Todd Lincoln in ‘Oh, Mary!’",
            "description": "The comic actor, who ended a celebrated run on “Saturday Night Live” last year, will begin a 12-week engagement in mid-September.",
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            "description": "In this Off Broadway play, the actor has the swagger to portray an entrepreneur pitching an A.I. start-up to his friends. Still, the drama falls flat.",
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            "description": "Three workers at a towering Manhattan tourist attraction watch for visitors intent on self-harm in this new play by Brendan George.",
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