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    At the Stratford Festival, Sexual Power and Paranoia

    This season’s wide-ranging offerings, including Shakespeare and “Little Shop of Horrors,” reveal the surprising root of our longest-lasting stories.

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    ‘Waitress’ to Close in January 2020

    The crowd-pleasing musical, with its popular score by Sara Bareilles, will wrap up after four years on Broadway.

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    A Broadway Star Indeed

    A reader says the Tony winner Ali Stroker is a role model for children with disabilities.

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    The Best and Worst of the 2019 Tony Awards

    Swinging lights. Broadway beefs. Words of wisdom. And a restroom serenade. If only some of the highlights were on TV.

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    ‘Hadestown’ Wins Eight Awards at the Tonys

    “Hadestown” won the Tony Award for best new musical, beating out the original musical comedy, “The Prom,” “Tootsie,” “Beetlejuice” and “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations.”

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    Watch Our Moonshot for the Stage

    On Sunday night, The Times presents a play, built from the words of the men and women who made the Apollo missions happen.

    By Alan Burdick

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    The Week in Arts: Lalah Hathaway, Clay Play and ‘Douglas’

    Burt Lancaster is celebrated nearly 40 different ways; “Mum” crosses the pond; and a fierce, fiddling Finn, Pekka Kuusisto, comes to town.

    By The New York Times

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    Langston Hughes Sings in ‘The Black Clown’

    Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival presents a music-theater adaptation of one of the poet’s dramatic monologues.

    By Ryan Ebright

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    9 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend

    Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.

    By Alexis Soloski

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    An Apollo 11 ‘Oratorio,’ Told by Those Who Were There

    The “Oslo” playwright J.T. Rogers found himself moved stitching a story he thought he knew well: “It is a piece about hope and wonder.”

    By Laura Collins-Hughes

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    From Russia, With Despair, Self-Loathing and Love

    What do two contemporary playwrights have in common with Anton Chekhov? A bunch.

    By Alexis Soloski

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    ‘The Great Society,’ About L.B.J., Is Coming to Broadway

    The playwright, Robert Schenkkan, also wrote the Tony-winning “All the Way,” about an earlier chapter of the Johnson presidency.

    By Michael Paulson

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    At Avignon Festival, Competition Comes From the Fringe

    An underwhelming official lineup led many festivalgoers to branch out into the less well-known complimentary program.

    By Laura Cappelle

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    ‘Beautiful’ to Close at the End of October

    The Carole King musical has grossed nearly $250 million since opening on Broadway in 2014.

    By Lauren Messman

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    In the ‘Fiddler’ Crowd, Far From the Home They Love

    The hit Yiddish-language rendition of the classic musical celebrates its first birthday today. An illustrator recently captured what the show meant to a unique audience — refugees.

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