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"I was a teenager when I left the church, but it still has a hold on the way I look at the world. I know it’s one of the reasons I’m drawn to the profane, wildly funny and very Catholic plays of Stephen Adly Guirgis."https://nyti.ms/2NsCBcG 

The director Robert O'Hara "burns a hole right through" Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" at the Williamstown Theater Festivalhttps://nyti.ms/2J4bNeB 

The Singaporean play "This Is What Happens to Pretty Girls" has opened a dialogue on #MeToo issues in a country where conversations on the topic had been mutedhttps://nyti.ms/2NzzvUm 

S. Epatha Merkerson is "magnificent" as the matriarch of a divided family in the Williamstown Theater Festival's production of "A Raisin in the Sun"https://nyti.ms/2J0X8k1 

"This is What Happens to Pretty Girls," a #MeToo-themed play in Singapore, got its title from a line women have routinely been told when reporting workplace harassmenthttps://nyti.ms/2J10tj3 

The original production of Les Miserables is closing in July after 33 years to be replaced by a stripped-down versionhttps://nyti.ms/2NF22b9 

Hugh Jackman has mastered action films and stage musicals, but arena concerts are a different beast. Our review of his live show at Madison Square Garden:https://nyti.ms/2IYn5Rf 

The great medieval composer Hildegard von Bingen sings again in the strange (and strained) new musical "In the Green," by Grace McLean.https://nyti.ms/2ITCx1i 

In his childhood, David Cale rescued birds and tortoises in his "animal hospital." Then he had to rescue himself.https://nyti.ms/2IRVT6F 

Has "Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise," the "kung fu musical" at the Shed, learned nothing from "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" or Cirque du Soleil's "Paramour"?https://nyti.ms/2NeVxeG 

What's in a job? An updated production of "Working," revived for City Center's 75th anniversary, asks the question — and finds some answers close to home.https://nyti.ms/2NrVQCS 

Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox and Zawe Ashton will play roles that over the years have been occupied by Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Raul Julia and Roy Scheiderhttps://nyti.ms/2NchV8n 

Two adaptations of works by the writer Marguerite Duras are playing as one-woman shows in Parishttps://nyti.ms/2ISGbZa 

Acting naked onstage for the first time, Audra McDonald got on board right away when the director suggested hiring an intimacy directorhttps://nyti.ms/2IOBEXG 

Michael Shannon on playing sex scenes: “My dumb joke about them is that they really are like sex. They have all the confusion and loneliness and anxiety and despair, just none of the pleasure.”https://nyti.ms/2Np6AlQ 

“King Kong” was capitalized for up to $36.5 million, according to an S.E.C. filing — an enormous sum by Broadway standardshttps://nyti.ms/2IJFNw3 

The Flea Theater's coming season will feature the world premiere of a new play by Taylor Mac and a festival of works by Mac Wellmanhttps://nyti.ms/2ILaOzN 

A boy looks to the pro wrestlers he admires in preparing to take on an unseen bully in the two-man Scottish play "Square Go"https://nyti.ms/2NexBrR