Review: Shaina Taub’s “Suffs” at the Public Theater

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Musical theater has long given short shrift to America’s unsung heroines, which is one reason that Shaina Taub’s “Suffs,” now debuting at the Public Theater, feels like both a celebration and a corrective. Over the course of nearly three hours (and, admittedly, the show could use some judicious cutting), we hear from more than a dozen such heroines who helped get women the vote via a Constitutional Amendment in 1920. Read Full Review