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      Sarah Silverman Has Written a Musical

      Atlantic Theater Company will host the world premiere of “The Bedwetter,” based on her 2010 memoir, along with a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis.

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    Pride Events: Here’s How to Celebrate

    From exhibitions to music and movies, we offer over 25 options for commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising and celebrating Pride Month.

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    13 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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    Review: ‘Enter Laughing’ Delights. (Except if You’re Greta Garbo.)

    Set in the 1930s, this musical comedy about a young man striving for stardom lands most of its jokes in song.

    By Laura Collins-Hughes

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    In This ‘Death of a Salesman,’ Willy Loman Is Black

    Three new theater productions in London explore questions of race and skin color in different ways.

    By Matt Wolf

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    A Sword Swallower’s Tough Act

    Nobody taught Betty Bloomerz how to swallow a sword. She just figured it out — one inch at a time.

    By Jamie Lauren Keiles

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    Review: A Sex Crime Disarranges a Tidy World in ‘Something Clean’

    A splendid Kathryn Erbe plays a sheltered housewife thrown into limbo in Selina Fillinger’s thoughtful, poignant new play.

    By Ben Brantley

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    Roger Hirson, Who Wrote the Book for ‘Pippin,’ Dies at 93

    For more than a decade, Mr. Hirson was known for writing for television, but meeting the composer Stephen Schwartz led to the hit musical “Pippin.”

    By Richard Sandomir

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    A Lynn Nottage and Ricky Ian Gordon Opera Heads to Lincoln Center Theater

    The theater will stage “Intimate Apparel,” a new chamber opera based on Ms. Nottage’s 2004 play.

    By Michael Cooper

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    There’s Great Dance on Broadway. Hello, Tony Awards?

    Standard or (worse yet) slight fare gets nominated for best choreography while quality work — “Oklahoma!,” “The Prom” — goes unrecognized. An exception: Camille A. Brown’s dances for “Choir Boy.”

    By Gia Kourlas

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    Review: ‘The Flamingo Kid,’ a Musical Not Yet in Flight

    There’s plenty to enjoy in this adaptation of a 1984 movie set at a Long Island beach club. But plenty to fix, as well.

    By Jesse Green

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