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Friday, June 3, 2011

'American Idol's' Web sight by LINDA WINER

If things had gone as planned, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" would now be tallying its potential wins on next Sunday's Tony Awards broadcast on CBS at 8 p.m. If the mega-musical had opened…

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Cy Coleman's 'The Best Is Yet to Come' by LINDA WINER

There was a time, not so long ago, when the engaging, jazzy, high-gloss melodies of Cy Coleman kept Broadway happy in the trough between the musical-theater's golden age and the onslaught of…

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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Curses! Why so much profanity on Broadway? by Linda Winer

This paper ran a letter from a reader recently that took me by surprise.

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Friday, May 13, 2011

Critics cry: On losing it at 'War Horse' by LINDA WINER

Colleagues are still teasing me about the expression on my face during "War Horse."

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Monday, May 9, 2011

Ace plays race card in 'Meet Vera Stark' by LINDA WINER

Two years ago, Lynn Nottage won a Pulitzer Prize for "Ruined," a devastating fiction based on horrible stories of sexual mutilation as warfare in Congo. In tone, of course, "By the Way, Mee…

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Sunday, May 8, 2011

An odd yet charming 'Minister's Wife by LINDA WINER

Don't go to "A Minister's Wife" expecting "My Fair Lady." Although the new musical at Lincoln Center Theater is an adaptation of a play by George Bernard Shaw, this one is far less a Broadwa…

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Friday, May 6, 2011

Tony nominations are in; so are the snubs by LINDA WINER

The Tony nominations must have been especially hard to pick this year. The season was busy, varied and filled with many plays and a few musicals I'd tell my best friends to see. (Now you kno…

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Tony Kushner's 'Homosexual's Guide' by LINDA WINER

Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer-winning master of the form-busting, socially subversive, gorgeously written epic, was prescient about the collapse of the Soviet Union in "Angels in America" and a…

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Friday, April 29, 2011

Schmaltz-heavy 'People in the Picture' by LINDA WINER

It feels ungrateful to dismiss any new musical that offers Donna Murphy a chance to play a Nazi-oppressed Polish star of the Yiddish theater and an old Jewish grandmother in New York, to be …

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Reflections on a winning Broadway season by LINDA WINER

If asked two months ago to assess the impact of the 2010-11 Broadway season, my answer would have amounted to Al Pacino and Lily Rabe in "The Merchant of Venice," Vanessa Redgrave and James …

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

'Born Yesterday' revival has stellar cast by Linda Winer

The obvious purpose of reviving "Born Yesterday" is to make Nina Arianda, Off-Broadway's blazing new comet, into a great big Broadway star. A collateral benefit is to lure back Robert Sean L…

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Sunday, April 10, 2011

'Catch Me' fumbles at Neil Simon Theatre by Linda Winer

News that the guys from "Hairspray" and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" were making a musical based on the movie "Catch Me If You Can" raised a couple of intriguing -- also daunting -- questions. …

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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Daniel Radcliffe knows how to 'Succeed' by Linda Winer

He sings. He dances. Yes, the British mega-star formerly known as young Harry Potter even shaves, proudly, while delivering that irresistibly all-American self-love ballad, "I Believe in You…

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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Lanford Wilson, 1937-2011 by Linda Winer

Lanford Wilson wrote with gentleness and fury about everyday people, often facing the ends of their eras. His death at 73 Wednesday, from complications of pneumonia, feels like the end of on…

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