35 shows are playing on Broadway right now. Those shows include "Harry Potter and The Cursed Child," along with classics like "Romeo & Juliet," Sweeney Todd" and "Moulin Rouge! The Musical." The Broadway League, the Broadway Theatre Industry's official site, released data for the week of May 5. "Suffs" only reached 81% capacity during eight performances that week. It put the show in the bottom 23% of all the shows that week. Can we talk about the name of the play? It's dumb and I would guess that most people don't know what it means. It's probably an attempt to be cool, or something, but it fails. The play is three hours long and it is about the women's suffrage movement of the early 1900s. The show's website reads that Suffs "boldly explores the victories and failures of a struggle for equality that’s far from over." That play description doesn't even appeal to me. I love American history and I support women's rights, but three hours of women's equality and what sounds like playing into a narrative that women are still victims in today's society is not how I would spend my hard-earned money. Given the opportunity to see a Broadway play and the choices available, "Suffs" wouldn't even be considered.Shakespeare she's not...
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