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The lavish and harmless entertainment, which opened last night with a shiny-colored and efficient score by Parton, is mostly a tracing-paper adaptation of the popular secretary-revenge movie…
The Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of "Waiting for Godot," which opened Thursday at Studio 54, is the one against which others will be measured for a long time.
The well-dressed production is more than dutiful, but less than scintillating. It's merely pleasant in the leisurely, mild-mannered style of elevated summer stock.
These powerful actors buy it, which makes us willing to suspend vast stretches of inevitable disbelief.
English politicians have just been assassinated. Terrorists are knocking off literary figures, apparently as a statement of taste. Yet the insulated academics in The Philanthropist—the 1970 Christopher Hampton comedy that lured Matthew Broderick back to Broadway - go about their facile chatter and sexual dalliances as if the day's catastrophes were less important than who's going to wash the party dishes. And speaking of detachment from timely realities, whatever possessed the Roundabout Theatre Company to revive this mild little British satire about apathy during the most hyped-up politically engaged time in recent American history?
... this is a heavy commitment for such light entertainment. And, though dots are ingeniously connected by seeing the same relationships lived out in three locations of an English country ho…
Mary Stuart, which opened last night in a production from London's Donmar Warehouse, is a riveting showcase for Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter—two towering actresses in a monumentally entertaining regina smackdown.
Just when you think you're catching up with this speedway of a Broadway spring season, along comes a real stunner to move the finish line again. How thrilling.
How good it is to finally have this shimmering, sprawling, haunting work back on Broadway, even if the Lincoln Center Theater's fine production, directed by Bartlett Sher, doesn't have all t…
If you've never seen a cabaret show, you're missing a classic New York experience. Whether in a supper club or a museum auditorium, these performers sing just to you...
While winning awards at Washington's Arena Stage, the show has sorted out some - but not enough - of its more obvious multiple-personality disorders.
It's breezy, silly fun, but a genuine musical set against this colorful, chaotic era - the "Rent" of hair-metal - has yet to be written.
Christopher Durang's "Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them," is the best title of the year - and much more.
Such repertory -- old and fairly recent -- can be deeply gratifying. But I miss the time when more producers wanted to be linked to world premieres, or at least transfers of new work from Lo…
