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... the cast is more uneven and the direction by Marc Bruni is more mundane than the series at its most sparkling.
In a season offering her plus the other authentic Sondheim women - Barbara Cook (the upcoming "Sondheim on Sondheim") and Angela Lansbury ("A Little Night Music") - it's a happy birthday for…
American Shakespeare has come a long way since Joseph Papp and resident theater directors began insisting on it. After this "As You Like It," I'm sad to find myself remembering that George B…
It feels ungrateful to be impatient with any play that gives Laura Linney a flinty, complicated character to put under her high-powered microscope.
Shattering Schreiber and Arthur Miller
A Little Night Music is one of the most delectable musicals ever written, by Stephen Sondheim or anyone else. Angela Lansbury is giving a performance that deserves to be part of theater legend. Catherine Zeta-Jones is earthy and poignant in her confident Broadway debut. With all that, it is easier to live with—if not really forgive—the visual drabness and heavy hand of this gorgeous musical's first revival since its Tony-winning 1973 premiere. Director Trevor Nunn's skimpy production, conceived last year for London's tiny Meniere Chocolate Factory, arrives with another of those scandalously reduced orchestras that Broadway producers try to pass off these days as innovation.
It appears that "Chicago" was no fluke. This is fun.
Completely recast, the solid four-actor play now seems more amusing than brutally entertaining. Despite eight months of rising ticket prices (a top $121.50, compared with $116.50 at opening)…
I don't feel a bit sensible about "Brief Encounter," the deeply romantic, yet playful and witty 85 minutes of imagination and style that have settled - like a holiday gift for adventurous fa…
For several new shows arriving on Broadway, it hasn't been easy to do the politically right thing.
"The Starry Messenger" is a quietly marvelous play - rambling, perhaps, but engrossing, thoughtful and richly believable.
The songs, with Fela's potent pidgin-poetry in subtitles, are a jubilant, subtle mixture of Afro-Caribbean rhythm, jazz brass, Yoruban chant and R&B. But they were never meant to carry a sto…
