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The Broadway costume designer Martin Izquierdo, who created the wings for “Angels in America” and the Victoria’s Secret runway models, as well as inventive outfits for Oprah Winfrey, Heidi Klum and Marc Jacobs, has died at 83.
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John Conklin, who realized a childhood dream by creating highly conceptual (but also playful) sets for the Glimmerglass Festival, New York City Opera and other companies, has died at 88.
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The Broadway revival of “Gypsy” starring Audra McDonald will end its run on Aug. 17, much earlier than its producers had hoped.
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The music is gorgeous in Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s “The Gospel at Colonus,” now in an open-air revival on Little Island, even if the action is busy, our critic writes.
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Richard Greenberg, who received a Tony Award in 2003 for “Take Me Out,” his play about a gay baseball player, has died at 67.
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“All my characters are crying out against the universe they can’t alter,” the playwright Ronald Ribman said. “They are battling against an unseen and always victorious enemy, and they go on battling.” He has died at 92.
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What’s onstage Off Broadway this month? A new musical about Joy Mangano of Miracle Mop fame, and two plays from the “Oh, Mary!” director Sam Pinkleton.
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Paul Libin’s stage career hit an early high note when he produced a revival of “The Crucible” in a hotel ballroom in 1958. He then helped run Circle in the Square Theater and oversaw the operations of the Broadway houses owned by Jujamcyn Theaters.
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The playwright Ronald Ribman set his frequently neurotic characters in bleak, morally ambiguous situations where laughter, as he put it, “is a measure of the sickness of society.” He has died at 92.
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Mark Brokaw, a director of Broadway, Off Broadway and regional productions, who shepherded the work of gifted, rising playwrights like Kenneth Lonergan, Lisa Kron, Paula Vogel and Nicky Silver, has died at 66.
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If you know “Hello, Dolly!,” then you’ll appreciate this fine upstate revival of the Thornton Wilder play that inspired it, “The Matchmaker.” It's a Critic’s Pick!  
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Pride month means Pride theater. Our critic takes in “Beau the Musical,” “My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?)” and “The Queerest Night on Broadway!”
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Diana Oh, the glitter-dusted experimental artist-activist whose theater works intertwined political provocation with profound compassion in rituals of communion with audiences, has died at 38.
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The hottest scene in British theater is Rachel Zegler singing “Evita” from the a theater balcony. The best place to watch it? By the trash.
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“Lowcountry,” Abby Rosebrock’s latest offering for Atlantic Theater Company, mines fertile ground but simmers about with nary a sign of tension, sexual or otherwise.
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In Emmanuelle Mattana’s “Trophy Boys,” the young men on a high school debate team prepare to argue an uncomfortable case: that feminism has failed women.
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Jay Ellis, from the HBO series “Insecure,” makes an amiable stage debut in “Duke & Roya,” a new play about an American rapper falling for his Afghan interpreter.
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Screens dominate our lives, and now they dominate Broadway. See: “Sunset Boulevard,” “McNeal” and “Maybe Happy Ending.”
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“Dead Outlaw,” a hard-driving musical about a bandit whose mummified body became a curiosity, announced Friday evening that it would close June 29 after a disappointingly brief run on Broadway.
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A new version of the Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata comes to Lincoln Center, distilling old lessons: “To build a civilization, those with the most power must take care of those with the least.”
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