Review: Fraser, O'Hare in odd-but-endearing 'Elling' by Linda Winer

Odd, but oddly winning

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Kelli O'Hara is a smooth operator in 'Bells' by Linda Winer

Creaky old sweetheart of a musical, dazzling Kelli O'Hara

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On Theater: Opening cold may not be cool by Linda Winer

Broadway history spills over with colorful and/or agonizing stories about shows in their out-of-town tryouts. Now come the stories about staying in town.

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'A Free Man of Color': Too much of a good thing by Linda Winer

Jeffrey Wright puts on a zesty performance in "A Free Man of Color."

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The regift of 'Elf' seems ho, ho, hum

For more years than Santa has belly rolls, Broadway has been trying to come up with a musical that would do for holiday theater what "The Nutcracker" does for ballet. Make kids happy. Make g…

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Al Pacino's 'Merchant of Venice' even better indoors by Linda Winer

People may be clawing their way into "The Merchant of Venice" to look deep into the thousand-year-old-eyes of Al Pacino's harrowing, yet beautifully restrained Shylock on Broadway. And right…

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'The Pee-wee Herman Show' is back - on Broadway by Linda Winer

Pee Wee Herman returns with a new Broadway show.

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Colin Quinn's history lesson in 'Long Story Short'

In a country where more and more people get their news from Jon Stewart, what's so unthinkable about getting our world history from Colin Quinn?

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On Theater: The long and short of one-act shows

What - or maybe who - is killing the two-act play?

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Women on the verge of a stronger story

Bartlet Sher remakes Pedro Almodovar's movie, "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," into a musical.

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Contested results in Lisa Kron's 'In the Wake' by Linda Winer

The political and the personal are the equally bright and anguished obsessions in this ambitious but derailed comedy/drama by Lisa Kron, author and star of such multileveled treasures as "We…

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Prize-winning new play 'Middletown' by Linda Winer

Will Eno's "Middletown," the first winner of the new Horton Foote Prize for Promising American Play, is a dizzying modern spin on life, death and the bruised underbelly of the sort of hamlet…

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Review: 'The Scottsboro Boys,' at the Lyceum Theatre by Linda Winer

It's sharp and snappy, imaginative and heartfelt. It has a real American tragedy to tell and some of the best in the business to tell it.

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Sondheim gets writing right in 'Finishing the Hat' by Linda Winer

FINISHING THE HAT: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes, by Stephen Sondheim. Alfred A. Knopf, 445 pp. $39.95.

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The audience soars in 'Wings' and 'Spirit Control' by Linda Winer

One of the best things about watching dance is the feeling that it's running away with our bodies.

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Kushner's glorious 'Angels' fly high in 7-hour show by Linda Winer

The Angel has landed again, at long last, and all's right with the world.

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'Rain' less than a Broadway magical mystery tour

The Beatles come to Broadway in "Rain."

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'Driving Miss Daisy': Power in the front and back seat by Linda Winer

Yes, the play is shamelessly manipulative. But it is supremely elegant manipulation, magnificently staged and performed.

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Coach's team fumbles the ball in 'Lombardi'

There is probably a built-in audience for "Lombardi," the by-the-numbers biographical play that marks the National Football League's debut as a Broadway co-producer.

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Where's the show info? Probably not in Playbill by Linda Winer

I know things that you don't know, and I'm not bragging.

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2 comedies: One a tiger, another a dud by Linda Winer

It is hard to talk about a runaway hit in an off-off-Broadway black-box theater with just 65 seats. But ...

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War, politics play huge roles in new shows

Two faces have refused to leave me since I saw "The Human Scale," a solo play written and performed by Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and foreign correspondent for The Ne…

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'Bête' a tour de force for a gross Mark Rylance

British master Mark Rylance is fabulously obnoxious in "La Bête," now playing at the Music Box Theatre.

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'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' moves to Broadway by Linda Winer

How important is charisma in the selection of American leaders? Who decided who got to claim what for whose manifest destiny? What is populism, and why would anyone trust the people with it?

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Two actors give life to 'A Life in the Theatre'

The nicest show in town is by - no kidding - David Mamet. It is also an exhilarating showcase for two terrific actors, Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight, and a thrilling joyride back to the da…

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