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Review: Brothers bite hard in powerhouse ‘Topdog/Underdog’ on Broadway

From left, Corey Hawkins, Suzan-Lori Parks, Kenny Leon and Yahya Abdul-Mateen ll attend curtain call during the opening night of " Topdog/ Underdog" on Broadway at Golden Theatre on Oct. 20, 2022, in New York City.

NEW YORK — Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Topdog/Underdog” is a phenomenal two-brother drama, every bit as intense and rich as anything by Sam Shepard and, frankly, as good an American play as most anything written during the last quarter century. And on Broadway, the director Kenny Leon has put this 2001 masterpiece back on a fresh, vital pedestal.

The experience at the Golden Theatre as Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Corey Hawkins smash each other into psychological pieces is at

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