Sunday, August 7, 2011
Cate Blanchett, Richard Roxburgh and Hugo Weaving star in the Sydney Theater Company revival of “Uncle Vanya” at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
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Women without knickers kept showing up on the stage the other day, in two different theaters. And, honestly, I wasn't hanging out in those hole-in-the-wall clubs in Soho, land of gentlemen's…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:00PM"Betty Blue Eyes," the musical at the Ivor Novello Theater based on the 1984 film "A Private Function," captures the the writer Alan Bennett's sensibility in its portrayal of the age of aust…
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Howard Davies's production of "The Cherry Orchard" at the National Theater is a handsome but exceedingly busy production in which every other line, it seems, is annotated with some exaggerat…
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"London Road," at the National Theater, and "Loyalty," at the Hampstead, are two productions based on actual events, but only one finds the truth.
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The novelist Katharine Weber brings many famous and glamorous names to her memoir, including that of her grandmother’s lover, George Gershwin.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:55PMTiming is everything in comedy. Well, that and location, as "One Man, Two Guvnors," Richard Bean's smash play at the National Theater, demonstrates.
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There's Shakespeare as a straightforward, youth-infused interpretation of "All's Well That Ends Well," at the Globe, and then there is the Vegas-as-Venice version of "The Merchant of Venice,…
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Implicit in the Belarus Free Theater troupe's production of the international hodgepodge "Eurepica. Challenge" at the Almeida Theater in London is the message that Belarus isn't alone in mak…
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Neither "Ghost," a musical based on the 1990 movie, nor a re-imagining of "A Woman Killed With Kindness," on stage in London, offer much for audiences to latch on to and take with them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:30PMPlays in London this summer have startling moments in which they connect with us in ways that feel almost embarrassingly intimate.
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Through youthful eyes, Shakespeare can seem every bit as relevant and engaging as the young stars who regularly appear on the cover of People Magazine.
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The purported scoundrels in the British phone-hacking scandal give the edge in amorality to the power-brokers, secret-hoarders and blackmailers portrayed in "Luise Miller," Friedrich Schille…
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One of the pleasures (and pains) of going to the theater for many years is watching actors get older and grow up - or not, as the case may be.
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The buzzed-about production of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" at Wyndhams' Theater appeared to be a sitcom from the age of Thatcher.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Kevin Spacey and Dominic West are putting their classical training on display like peacocks spreading their tails.
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Three different but equally theatrical productions in London provide a kind of catharsis for theatergoers who are fed up with the hypocrites who rule their worlds.
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Sunday, July 3, 2011
A revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s “Three Hotels” at the Williamstown Theater Festival provides evidence of his gift for translating complicated feelings into a theatrical language that bo…
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In “All’s Well That Ends Well” for Shakespeare in the Park, a good woman loves an unworthy man. Sound familiar?
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While “Unnatural Acts” is a docudrama, based on real events of 1920, it often has the aroma of a ripe, lurid melodrama of a slightly later vintage.
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Joely Richardson and Cotter Smith play a combustible couple in “Side Effects” by Michael Weller at the Lucille Lortel Theater.
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I would like to thank the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for helping make the Tony Awards watchable again.
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The mega-expensive musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is no longer the ungodly, indecipherable mess it was in February. It’s just a bore.
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Carey Mulligan is a woman facing insanity in a stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s “Through a Glass Darkly.”
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“Lysistrata Jones,” a new musical by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn, is a modern riff on Aristophanes’ bawdy comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThis production of “The Illusion,” adapted by Tony Kushner from a work by the 17th-century French playwright Pierre Corneille, trafficks in a special, baroque brand of magic.
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I am proposing a little list that matches stars in search of redemption with stage roles tailor-made to their particular skills and images.
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