Tuesday, June 26, 2012
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The Baby Boom generation seems to have aged into a Baby Bust cohort on the London stage, where privileged youth remain spoiled.
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“Forbidden Broadway,” the satirical revue that kept theater vultures sated for nearly three decades before closing in Manhattan in 2009, is returning this summer with plenty to spoof.
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Ben Brantley on "Sweeney Todd" and other London shows in which the on-stage death toll is unusually high.
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Ben Brantley on "The Physicists" at Donmar Warehouse and "South Downs" and "The Browning Version" at the Harold Pinter Theater.
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Friday, June 15, 2012
Anthony Page's excellent revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" runs in London through Aug. 18.
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Works by agitprop, political and plain old angry playwrights are something of a trend on smaller stages in London.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Sunday, June 10, 2012
'The Duchess of Malfi,' a Jacobean tragedy that just ended its run at Old Vic in London, was written when memories of the first Queen Elizabeth were fresh. Now it provokes Ben Brantley's ref…
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“We have a long way to go before this is over,” Catherine of Siena tells the audience in Kenneth Lonergan’s “Medieval Play,” which has knights, ladies, popes, harlots and a dozen o…
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What better art than the theater, by its nature a collective experience, to consider the overlap between the individual and the communal?
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The Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of “The Common Pursuit” — rather like the intellectual undergraduates portrayed onstage — never fulfills even its modest promise.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMAthol Fugard’s “My Children! My Africa!” is a tale of friendship, idealism and unintended consequences in the twilight of apartheid.
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“February House,” a new musical at the Public Theater, tours a Brooklyn Heights commune where W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers and Benjamin Britten were all residents.
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I would like to make the case, officially and urgently, for the return of the sitting ovation. Because we really have reached the point where a standing ovation doesn't mean a thing.
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When a production moves to a Broadway house, it can seem different — even if the script, director and actors haven’t changed.
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The Broadway season that ended recently has shown that the art of eloquence in theater is very much alive.
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Paul Weitz’s “Lonely, I’m Not,” a damaged-boy-meets-defensive-girl story, stars a wonderfully matched, mismatched Topher Grace and Olivia Thirlby.
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The Target Margin Theater production of “Uncle Vanya” suggests a group of passionate college students who, after a long night of punch-drunk debate, have decided to act out one of their …
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The current revival of "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" is a reminder of the joys of smart-talking stage characters, also on display in the new works "Other Desert Cities" and "The Lyons."
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“An Early History of Fire,” a tumultuous work that has been given a surprisingly flat production by the New Group, is the first new play in a decade from David Rabe.
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“Leap of Faith” is this season’s black hole of musical comedy, sucking the energy out of anyone who gets near it.
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“The Columnist,” by David Auburn, stars John Lithgow in the title role, portraying Joseph Alsop, who wielded power in mid-20th-century Washington.
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“Nice Work if You Can Get It” is a homage to a host of Jazz Age musicals in which outlandish plots were mere pegboards for songs, dances, gags and idiosyncratic star turns.
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“The Lyons,” Nicky Silver’s acerbic comedy about an aging dysfunctional family, features Dick Latessa as the father who’s dying, and Linda Lavin as the mother who seems O.K. with tha…
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