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Saturday, April 25, 2015

Rex Reed Remembers ‘Time’ Critic Richard Corliss by Rex Reed

The world of critics who view their duty as a craft got a little smaller this week when Time critic Richard Corliss died

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:50PM
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Boris Pasternak Would Not Be Proud of ‘Doctor Zhivago’ by Rex Reed

But the new 'King and I' is unforgettable.

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:29PM
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

James Franco Fails Again by Rex Reed

An intriguing true story is deflated in his clumsy hands.

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:17PM

Thank Heavens for Robert Fairchild by Rex Reed

Dazzling dance moves enliven an otherwise unnecessary 'American in Paris,' while 'Gigi' is too P.C. for its own good.

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:57AM
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Rex Reed Reviews ‘Skylight’ and ‘Hand to God’ | Observer by Rex Reed

So cold and dreary one character laments that “we even have indoor fog,” the first thing you see is the set—an ugly, cluttered and characterless one-room London council flat designed b…

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:15PM
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

A Call to Theater: No More Puppets by Rex Reed

'Skylight' stars an incandescent Carey Mulligan, and 'Hand to God' is awful.

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:25PM
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

‘On the Twentieth Century’ Is the Blockbuster We’ve Been Waiting For by Rex Reed

Take a ride on the Twentieth Century and you’ll find out what a Broadway blockbuster is.

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:14PM
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Openings: One New Show Restores Broadway’s Magic, Another Serves a Dead ‘Fish’ by Rex Reed

'The Audience,' starring Helen Mirren, vastly overshadows Larry David’s hopeless comedy 'Fish in the Dark.'

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:31PM
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Bad Moon Rising: A Clifford Odets Revival, Limply Written, Hits the Stage by Rex Reed

Along with David Ives’ mildly amusing six-play sampler, 'Lives of the Saints.'

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:05PM
Monday, April 7, 2014

The Road Not Taken | Rex Reed Reviews ‘If/Then’ | New York Observer by Rex Reed

Idina Menzel—or is it Adele Dazeem?—is one character with two identities in Broadway dud 'If/Then'

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:03PM
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Of Sound Mind: Falling, the Tragic Tale of an Embattled Family Struggling to Cope With an Autistic Son Brings an Emotional Force to Weighty Subject | by Rex Reed

Graceful writing, great acting, exquisite direction, suspense, profound subject matter—you rarely find even one of those elements in a contemporary play opening in commercial New York thea…

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:36PM

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