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Betrayal - Jamie Lloyd directs a compelling, minimalist take on Pinter's play with impressive Broadway debuts by Zawe Ashton, Charlie Cox, and Tom Hiddleston.
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Sea Wall/A Life on Broadway - It would be nice to see these linked monologues by Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge in an intimate setting. In stead, the actors' star power have now brought it for a limited run to the even larger Hudson Theater on Broadway Read
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical - a brightly wrapped, intricately decorated package with little inside. It's racy, sometimes vulgar, and always indifferent to historical context and narrative logic. This makes it just the right stuff for the Trump eraRead
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Mean Girls - Another teen audience targeted movie now sing and dances on Broadway Read
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Frozen - A visually rich production that keeps us wide-eyed and on tenterhooks for more than two hours, even when we know how things are going to end. . . Read
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Come From Away - Its uplift message has helped this fact-based musical fly from Canada to Broadway. . . Read
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Dear Evan Hansen - A small musical's big heart and big on talent cast is now a welcome addition to the Broadway musical scene. . . Read
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Felix Starro - Extended to 9/21!
The world premiere of Jessica Hagedorn and Fabian Obispo's new musical, kicks off Ma-Yi Theatre Company's 30th anniversary season. Its being the first created by Filipino-Americans about Filipino-Americans is indeed a milestone worth celebrating. . . Read
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Make Believe - In Bss Wohl's new play a shimmering quartet of young performers (all under 14, two of them under 10), kids marking time in their playroom attic while they wait, much too long, for their mom to come home. Read
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Da Vinci & Michelangeo: The Titans Experience - His voice catches on a plaintive note, then crescendos to peals of laughter. Is this Lear? Is this Hamlet? No, it's just Mark Rodgers. . .delivering a 2-hour lecture performance Read
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Measure for Measure and Native Son -
Descriptive Excerpt: Richard Wright and William Shakespeare are justly praised for their depth and breadth of thought; I wish that in the zeal to focus them on single concepts, these productions didn't reduce their works as much as they do. Read
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#Date Me: An OkCupid Experiment -
A comedic and complicated view of online dating through one woman’s real lens. While the attention to that detail in both the script and the performance is the most endearing part of the production, it certainly makes a case for the online dating cynic who may not be looking to have their mind changed just yet. . . .Read
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Little Gem- Extended to 9/08! Elaine Murphy guides her fictional characters through the play with a prescribed sentimentality but it rings true to life in a very engaging way. The progression of time for them is charged by their irrepressible honesty and through unapologetically personal feelings, many of which are consigned to overlap the needs and longing of the other. Read
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The Rolling Stone - Chris Urch's powerful play derives much of this powers from the excellent performances of the actors, especially Blankson-Wood, Edwards and James Udom Read
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Fiddler On the Roof -
The not to be missed Yiddish version of the golden era's most perfect musical is now uptown. . . Read
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Fiddler on the Roof The show will move uptown to Stage 42 from 2/11/19; opening 2/21/19 -
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's (NYTF)
excellent Yiddish production of Fiddler on the Roof as directed by Joel Grey makes us fall in love with Tevye, his wife, Golde, and his three daughters all over again. Read
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For Services Rendered Somerset Maugham's 1932 play looks at the predicament of those who survived the First World War . . . .
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Torch Song In the brand new Turbine Theatre in the shadow of Battersea Power Station, Drew McOnie directs Harvey Fierstein's iconic Torch Song with a star performance from Matthew Needham . . . .
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Appropriate Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's family drama set in an ex-plantation mansion in Arkansas brings out the cracks between siblings . . . .
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Evita The Open Air's big summer musical production is Evita seen through fresh eyes . . . .
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Bitter Wheat David Mamet's new play about a movie mogul sexual predator stars John Malkovich. "It rips the pashmina off the suppurating wound that is show business." was the tagline .
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Waitress -
Broadway hit musical comedy Waitress brings pies to London . . .
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Thriller Live The show which features Michael Jackson's music celebrates its 10th year . . . .
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Moby Dick - Rehearsed - Even with the Theatricum's considerable playmaking resources and expertise, it's an underwhelming end to an epic tale. Kudos certainly to the Theatricum for taking us out to sea. Would that the waters were smoother. Read
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Topdog/Underdog - Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize winning play at Shakespeare Company in Lenox Read
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Fall Springs - this musical's
story is politically pointed and the acting and music campy enough to make for what is probably the most entertaining evening about hydro fracking that anyone could ever imagine.
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Before the Meeting -
Williamstown Theatre Festival's premiere at the intimate Nikos Stage, is a 70-80 minute visit with four addicts prior to their daily 12-step meeting in a church basement. Read
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What We May Be - Kathleen Clark's play is a backstage drama, quite literally whenever the stage wings are exposed. Read
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Ghosts -
Uma Thurman's willowy and repressed Mrs. Helene Alving is the centerpiece of Williamstown Theatre Festival's production og Henrik Ibsen's late 19th century radical examination of Norwegian mores Read
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If I Forget - Steven Levenson family comedy /drama gets its third Curtainup review . . .Read
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Working: A Musical -
This terrific production of the musical based on Studs' Turkel's book
, is filled with insights into our country's labor force who are the ones who drive its engine. Without them, what would we do? Read
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Just think of those shocks you've got/ And those knocks you've got/ And those blues you've got/ From that news you've got/ And those pains you've got/ (If any brains you've got). . ./ 'Cause Franklin knows/ Anything goes.
—Cole Porter lyric quoted in Thomas Friedman's 3/06/09 New York Times column The Trump Musical: 'Anything Goes'. You gotta crawl around in another man's skin 'fore you can really know him
—Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mckingbird
