Thursday, August 24, 2023
Barrington Stage Company's revival of the 1998 musical brings vocal luster and newfound relevance to the story of a songwriter's near-death experience.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater, a play about the making of Hollywood's first summer blockbuster bobs up on Broadway.
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"Candide" in an opera house. "Spamalot" and "Rent" cheek by jowl with Shakespeare. But treating them as classics may not be doing them justice.
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The Public Theater's alfresco production has plenty to offer audiences who know the play already. But it may not be so easy for newcomers.
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Is it a stand-up act or a morality play? Either way, Alex Edelman's look at race, religion and the limits of empathy is at home on Broadway.
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In lyrics of rare humor, elegance and compassion, the man who put words to "Fiddler on the Roof" and "She Loves Me" explored the complex emotional architecture of love.
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Thursday, June 15, 2023
Robert Icke's surgery on a 1922 play about the disease of antisemitism turns it into a riveting debate about identity. But at what cost to the patient?
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The writing is on the wall: With or without writers, the Broadway awards are a strangely bland and canned way to celebrate a thrillingly live medium.
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Jesse Green, the chief theater critic, and Maya Phillips, a critic-at-large, name the shows and artists who they think will win, should win and should have been nominated for this year's Ton…
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The Encores! production, directed by Lear deBessonet, looks to deepen and darken a musical that resists the change. But it's still delightful.
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A revival of the 1960 musical with the famously great score and infamously bad book gets a gorgeous makeover that makes no difference.
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A countrified musical about corn, and filled with it, too, transplants itself to Broadway, with songs by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32PM[SHARE]The 96-year-old composer of "Chicago" and "Cabaret" is making a brand-new start of it with "New York, New York," his 16th Broadway musical.
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