Friday, August 5, 2016
Theatergoers don't have to get anywhere near the Carole King musical, "Beautiful," to sing "I feel the earth move under my feet" these days.
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Eighty-three years ago, Dennis Scanlon's grandfather got a job ushering at the Music Box Theatre. Not long after, Scanlon's father put on the uniform -- yes, they used to wear outfits with b…
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Are some subjects just too serious, or too sensitive, or too unpleasant to be appropriate material for a musical?
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMYou know how people are always complaining about the familiar glut of musical revivals on Broadway? Not this fall.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMLate-youth identity crises don't come more gene-splitting than the one that drives "Me, Myself & I," Edward Albee's playful, slight and surprisingly tiresome domestic vaudeville about twins …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMDon't be lulled - OK, disappointed - by the nice chatty girl with the inspirational anecdotes who figures in the first half of Patti LuPone's memoir. She eventually does get to the juicy stu…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMBefore the tapping of big Broadway feet drowns out all other theater noise for the foreseeable future, it seems fair to steal the spotlight for these Off-Broadway enticements.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMBefore the tapping of big Broadway feet drowns out all other theater noise for the foreseeable future, it seems fair to steal the spotlight for these Off-Broadway enticements.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMDon't be lulled - OK, disappointed - by the nice chatty girl with the inspirational anecdotes who figures in the first half of Patti LuPone's memoir. She eventually does get to the juicy stu…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMVulpines have seldom been as slinky and brutal as in Ivo van Hove's stunning evisceration of "The Little Foxes" - Lillian Hellman's 1939 potboiler about a greedy Southern family and the fate…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMWith "Billy Elliot," Lee Hall, born in the mine country of northeast England, became the inspirational scribe for its hardscrabble people. In both his screenplay for the movie and his book f…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMFor scarily close to two decades, "Angels in America" has been on my short list of theater I've been wanting - no, needing - to see again.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMLaura Linney was a star, but not yet the star of her own Showtime series, "The Big C," when the Manhattan Theatre Club opened "Time Stands Still" last winter. But she already had a quiet, da…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMHow important is charisma in the selection of American leaders? Who decided who got to claim what for whose manifest destiny? What is populism, and why would anyone trust the people with it?
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMIt is hard to talk about a runaway hit in an off-off-Broadway black-box theater with just 65 seats. But ...
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMYes, the play is shamelessly manipulative. But it is supremely elegant manipulation, magnificently staged and performed.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMThe Angel has landed again, at long last, and all's right with the world.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMOne of the best things about watching dance is the feeling that it's running away with our bodies.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMFINISHING THE HAT: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes, by Stephen Sondheim. Alfred A. Knopf, 445 pp. $39.95.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMIt's sharp and snappy, imaginative and heartfelt. It has a real American tragedy to tell and some of the best in the business to tell it.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMWill Eno's "Middletown," the first winner of the new Horton Foote Prize for Promising American Play, is a dizzying modern spin on life, death and the bruised underbelly of the sort of hamlet…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMThe political and the personal are the equally bright and anguished obsessions in this ambitious but derailed comedy/drama by Lisa Kron, author and star of such multileveled treasures as "We…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMPeople may be clawing their way into "The Merchant of Venice" to look deep into the thousand-year-old-eyes of Al Pacino's harrowing, yet beautifully restrained Shylock on Broadway. And right…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMJeffrey Wright puts on a zesty performance in "A Free Man of Color."
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:58PMBroadway history spills over with colorful and/or agonizing stories about shows in their out-of-town tryouts. Now come the stories about staying in town.
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