Sunday, December 12, 2010
The folks at Lincoln Center Theater probably aren’t having the merriest holiday season. Over the past six weeks, they’ve opened two big shows—Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown …
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Maybe there can be too much of a good thing. There was no show that I wanted to see more this fall than Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. And I wasn’t the only one who…
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A windfall of shows descended on Broadway over the past couple of months but it came at a time when many people are still digging out from the recession. So it’s sad but not surprising tha…
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In the spirit of the show-at-hand’s title and its concise running time, I’m going to try to keep this relatively short. I didn’t expect to have a good time at Long Story Short, t…
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They say it’s not the gift but the thought that counts. Still, the gifts that tend to be the most fun to get—and give—are the ones that are mindful of what will most please the r…
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Turkey can be a tricky word in the theater, even on Thanksgiving Day. So, I’m just going to wish you and yours a day, a season, a year full of things to be thankful for—including l…
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“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” So says the Bible.
But th…
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It probably won’t come as a surprise to you that a semi-professional grouch like me is not the target audience for Elf, the new musical version of the 2003 Will Ferrell movie about a man w…
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It’s a dog- eat-dog season on Broadway this fall. And having big names in the cast doesn’t seem to be enough to guarantee survival. Last week, A Life in the Theatre, which has movi…
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It usually takes no more than the first 15 minutes of a play for me to tell if I’m going to be in for something special or for one of those evenings when I’m sneaking peeks at my watch. …
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Who would have thought that a play starring “Star Trek”s Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and “Grey’s Anatomy”s Dr. George O’ Malley would be playing to a half-full house on a Friday …
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