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In the age of CGI and Cirque du Soleil, even the play's technical "spectacle" often seems as retro as its fossilized script.
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If Psych ever goes the way of this play's title, he's got a home on the stage whenever he wants it.
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The play's spectacle is so overwhelming that you nearly overlook its flaws.
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The thumbprint of Alan Ayckbourn seems firmly impressed into the pages of playwright Lucinda Coxon's Happy Now?
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True artistic discoveries"relatively secret revelations that unfold before one's eyes"are few and far between.
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Scarlett Johansson is so comfortable on stage that it's hard to believe that this is her Broadway debut.
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Offices, three short comedies about the cubicle world, is about as fun as a day job.
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Provocateur playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute traffics in alternate reality.
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Natasha Richardson, certainly not a singer at the level of Liza Minnelli, was faced with numerous challenges when starting to work on this role.
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This Beautiful City provides a thoroughly researched context for the evangelizing of Colorado Springs.
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Even as the Oscar push for Revolutionary Road remains in full swing, Sam Mendes returns to his theater roots with his latest production of The Cherry Orchard.
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NYU has a long tradition of swallowing up real estate and putting profit before culture and community.
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Theoretically and visually, Equus is a dense monster of a play.
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It's a rare actor who can convey self-awareness without seeming self-conscious.
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Intensity exacted a high price, and Kim Stanley seems to have paid it willingly, even gloatingly.
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