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The James Lapine book is extremely clever, Stephen Sondheim's score even more so. Unfortunately, clever and good are not quite identical.
The Roundabout Theatre Company is in talks to produce "Merrily" during the 2009-10 season. James Lapine, who directed a well-received revision of the show at California's La Jolla Playhouse …
Run, don't walk, to the nearest egress when white, male, middle-class playwrights put the "N" word in the mouths of black characters and have women use the "C" word.
"Macbeth" was Shakespeare's shortest play -- until Patrick Stewart and his director, Rupert Goold, stretched it to three hours, perhaps on the assumption that if tomorrow can "creep at this …
"I have high ambitions to sing and be in musicals. It's been talked about many times and for different reasons it hasn't happened. Stephen Sondheim came to see 'Macbeth' in London and was ve…
Next to Normal offers no clue what Bryan Yorkey's book and lyrics intend to tell us.
The show begins and ends with Grace participating in an electronic experiment to simulate the experience of spirituality. The experiment is as misguided as the wannabe-Shaw play itself.
Some of this is genuinely funny, some merely slick, some meant to be incisively critical of various aspects of Judaism, Middle East strife, America and whatnot. It does not cut deep, persuas…
Even at a slim, 90 intermissionless minutes, "Hunting and Gathering" is nothing if not realistic: It feels like it will never end.
When it opened in 1981, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats proclaimed itself Broadway's "Now and Forever" musical. That mantle more truthfully belongs to his Phantom of the Opera, which this week swings its chandelier into the 21st year of its Broadway run at the Majestic Theatre.
The Broadway revival of William Inge's 1950 first play, "Come Back, Little Sheba," is fatally unbalanced.
