Friday, January 11, 2019
While the orchestra performance and set design are amazing, Bartlett Sher’s staging has a few kinks to work out.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 02:54PMDirector Trip Cullman conjures a gorgeous conspiracy of elements with Tarell Alvin McCraney’s memory play.
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In the midst of the usual year-end rash of “Best Of” lists and seasonal jolliness came news that a spring revival of Arthur Miller’s first Broadway success, “All My Sons,” had hit …
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Jeff Daniels puts in a great performance, but there s an element missing here that was essential to the book and film.
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Heidi Schreck’s engaging play may stick with you long after you ve left the theater.
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Bryan Cranston gives a towering performance in Ivo van Hove s stage adaptation of the 1976 film.
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Cher fans will be singing the praises of Stephanie J. Block, who leads three great actresses in this spectacular musical.
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Bobby Cannavale and Daniel Radcliffe go up against each other in this true story of a writer and fact checker fighting to get a story right.
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Heading into the holidays, the Broadway season so far has been remarkable for the breadth of its appeal and the range of subjects. Along with the usual spate of film-to-musical adaptations (…
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After the dazzle of the special effects wears off, this behemoth musical feels pretty small.
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In Moisés Kaufman’s uneven but moving production, the cast doesn t quite measure up to the original.
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At age 86, Elaine May turns in an electrifying performance as a woman whose mind is slipping away.
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Grief and joy alike suffuse a play that is a triumph through and through.
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Glenn Close stars as Joan of Arc’s mother, who must wrestle with her daughter s visions.
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As this musical production takes to the road, Betty Buckley radiates joy from center stage.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:54PM“Will it move?” If you’re in the theater business, you know what that question is about. When a new show opens anywhere outside the Broadway theater district, whether it’s SoHo or Sa…
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Characters and songs collide in Conor McPherson s ode to Dylan and the Depression.
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Richard Bean’s new play provides a kind of tear-inducing laughter that is in short supply on Broadway.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:36PMEvery Broadway season boasts a show or two that promises big-screen thrills delivered on record-busting budgets. Back in 1987, the Shubert Organization swallowed the cost of structural reinf…
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With her life s work, Mazzie s gift to theatergoers and colleagues alike was happiness in its purest state.
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As he accepted the fifth, and most important, Creative Emmy award for “Jesus Christ Superstar” last Sunday, executive producer Neil Meron said, “This is for Craig. Craig Zadan’s miss…
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A short run of this revelatory 1983 musical marks a homecoming of a show that has entered theater history.
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There s not a shred of originality in this repurposing of the 1990 film.
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“The Play That Goes Wrong” has recouped its $4 million capitalization, 17 months after it began performances on Broadway. The play originally announced it would be closing on Au…
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This musical is so full of cheesiness and clichés that anyone who buys a ticket will come to regret it.
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As the Best Musical continues to soar, Sasson Gabay brings a different take to the role of Tewfiq.
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Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub s musicalized adaptation is a celebration that brings all five boroughs of New York together.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 10:54PMRarely has the phrase “900-pound gorilla” seemed as apt as the dilemma facing Broadway producers and creatives this season — especially those who are adapting iconic films from the pas…
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Good intentions and terrific songs don’t add up to a good rock musical.
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With cameras amplifying grotesque images onto a large screen, The Damned is as unsettling onstage as it was on film.
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“There’s no profit like nonprofit!” was a cherished mantra of the late Shubert Organization chairman Gerald Schoenfeld. Long before his passing in 2008, Schoenfeld understood that the …
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