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Friday, August 26, 2016

Feature:: at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Mozart Dances back in New York after 10 years

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Review: A Day by the Sea at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

The Mint has done it again, given theater goers a chance to experience a play in which not happens except a lot of well developed characters revealing their lives, and life in general's comp…

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Monday, August 15, 2016

Movie with stage roots review: by Simon Saltzman and Elyse Sommer

Florence Foster Jenkins - Our review and backgrounder of the movie about the tone-deaf Diva starring Meryl Streep

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Monday, August 8, 2016

Review: Alice In Black And White at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

A biographical play about a little-known photojournalist that would probably work better as a documentary. .

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Friday, August 5, 2016

Review: Newton's Cradle by Elyse Sommer

Review: Newton's Cradle-- a complex musiical by a mother and Son team

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Monday, August 1, 2016

Review: Cats. . .Back on Broadway at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler makes brings new visual excitement to this critic proof mega-hit that now puts Andrew Lloyd Webber's name on three Broadway marquees

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Friday, July 29, 2016

Review: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater-Encores! Off Center at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Alan Mencken and Howard Ashman's first musical, based on Kurt vonnegut's novel

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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Review: Butler at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

- New Jersey Rep's production of Richard Strand's slice of history play makes a solid landing Off-Broadway

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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Review: A Class Actat curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

A worthy topic in need of a more original and engaging drama

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Monday, July 25, 2016

In Memory of Marni Nixon by Elyse Sommer

Reposted Feature of Marni Nixon staged memoir

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Sunday, July 24, 2016

Review: The Merchant of Venice Globe production by Elyse Sommer

he Old Globe's Merchant of Venice-- our 3rd encounter with the Bard's schizophrenic play

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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Review:Privacy at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

The Internet joys and pitfalls cleverly dramatized as an immersive experience

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Friday, July 15, 2016

Review: Oslo at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

J. T. Rogers's 3-hour long, fact-based political drama manages to be a fascinating, never boring theatrical outing. .

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Thursday, July 14, 2016

Review: Small Mouth Sounds at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Bess Wohl's clever non-verbal play gets a second run Off-Broadway

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Monday, July 11, 2016

Review: Runaways at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

The talented, exuberant young casts makes Elizabeth Swados's 1971 musical live again

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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Review: The Taming of the Shrew at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

The Shakespeare in the Park production tames this play's gender issue with an all female cast and a beauty pageant framing device.

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Friday, June 10, 2016

Review: Confusions and A Hero's Welcome at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

An Alan Ayckbourn double bill in repertory at Brits Off-Broadway Festival-

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Review: Shining City at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Matthew Broderick shines in this revival of Conor McPherson's play in the beautifully renovated Irish Rep

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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Review: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City at curtainup.c by Elyse Sommer

Halley Feiffer's funny-sad new play

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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Review: Act of God at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

A new God, shares his with and wisdom with Broadway Audiences Read More

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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Movie Review: at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

All the Way a Triumphant Transfer From Stage to Screen

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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Review:Hadestown at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

his almost sung-through version of the much told story has been brought to fascinating, lushly staged new life.

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Friday, May 27, 2016

.a CurtainUp book review by Elyse Sommer

a compendium of theater critics talking about their craft in the new media age

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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Review: Paramour at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Cirque du Soleil tackles Broadway as a real musical plus its usual acrobatic razzle-dazzle

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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Review: Incognitio at curtainup.com h by Elyse Sommer

Nick Payne, seen by many as an heir to Tom Stoppard, is back with another science themed intellectual puzzle. It's about the workings of that most mysterious human organ, the brain. Nick Pa…

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Thursday, May 19, 2016

The Ruins of Civilization at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

True to the title, Penelope Skinner's dystopian drama takes on a multitude of disastrous effects of a continued head-in-the-sand response to climate change and economic problems

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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Review: indecent at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

The history of the revered but also reviled Sholem Asch play God of Vengeance has been been ingeniously and entertainingly crafted by playwright Paula Vogel and director Rebecca Taichman fro…

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Monday, May 16, 2016

Review:Daphne's Dive at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Pulitzer prize winner GuiaraAlegra Hudes' bar play at the Signature Theatre, directed by Hamilton's Thomas Kail . . .

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Saturday, May 14, 2016

Review: Do I Hear a Waltz? at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

- a show most worth Encore-ing as a case study of why Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim's only collaboration misfired. .

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Thursday, May 5, 2016

Review: Dear Evan Hansen at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

a single incident escalates into a heart-stirring, highly original and believable new musical about a society with an alarming increase in teen suicides and drug addiction as well as social …

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Monday, May 2, 2016