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            "description": "Lust is the comic engine driving the action of a riotous revival of one of Noël Coward’s early plays, with Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara, at Todd Haimes Theater.",
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            "title": "9 Shows Our Theater Critics Are Talking About",
            "description": "John Lithgow in “Giant,” a triumphant revival of “Death of a Salesman” and vogueing cats at “The Jellicle Ball”: These productions are worth knowing about.",
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            "description": "The actress stars as a haunted genius opposite Don Cheadle as her father in David Auburn’s 2001 drama. This revival, though, exposes the play’s lack of rigor.",
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            "title": "How TV Series Like ‘Smash’ and ‘American Classic’ Portray Theater Is Quite a Drama",
            "description": "As portrayed in shows like “Smash,” “Slings & Arrows” and “American Classic,” life onstage is a grab-bag of archetypes both hilariously wrong and a little bit right.",
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            "description": "Producers and the cultural authorities hope that technology can overcome a language barrier and take the country’s shows to the world.",
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            "description": "Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson make confident Broadway debuts, but the uneven script makes for a narratively slippery prison drama.",
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            "title": "Coming to Broadway: Molière, ‘The Full Monty’ and a Play About D.J.s",
            "description": "Roundabout Theater Company, one of the four nonprofits with Broadway houses, plans three Broadway shows next season.",
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            "title": "‘Giant’ Revisits Roald Dahl’s Antisemitic Comments: What to Know",
            "description": "Mark Rosenblatt’s Broadway play, starring John Lithgow as the British children’s book author, draws from Dahl’s comments over the years.",
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            "title": "Julio Torres, Jennifer Tilly and More Star in Plays That Are Streaming Now",
            "description": "Other picks include the historical hip-hop musical “Mexodus,” an Anne Carson radio play and a century-old play about machines replacing humans.",
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            "title": "A Dance Party for Martha Graham With Ariana DeBose and Padma Lakshmi",
            "description": "Stars and luminaries honored the dance company’s 100th anniversary with dinner, performances and a champagne toast at the New York Public Library.",
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            "title": "‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ Returns With Contemporary Bite",
            "description": "A new London production highlights the story’s racial element and shows how much has changed since the play’s 1963 premiere.",
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            "description": "Daphne Rubin-Vega stars as a laid-off office worker who spins into a murderous rage in this update of Elmer L. Rice’s 1923 classic.",
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            "title": "‘Death of a Salesman,’ With Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, Is Perfect for Our Time",
            "description": "Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy returns to Broadway, starring Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf. Yet again, it is a triumph.",
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