Seven wonders from 'Swan Lake' to 'Andrew Jackson'

Forgive the list, please. But seven big and smaller-but-not-lesser events are percolating around the theater this week, and it would be unfair to let the big Broadway ones burst all the bubb…

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'Time Stands Still': Sturdy cast, lightweight drama by Linda Winer

Laura Linney was a star, but not yet the star of her own Showtime series, "The Big C," when the Manhattan Theatre Club opened "Time Stands Still" last winter. But she already had a quiet, da…

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'Gatz' enthralls with the story of 'Gatsby'

All-day stage adaptations of novels are, inevitably, disorienting sensory - and butt-challenging - experiences. But each is strange in its own special way. Watching the Royal Shakespeare Com…

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'Mrs. Warren's Profession' still thrilling

What a shocker "Mrs. Warren's Profession" must have been in 1893, when George Bernard Shaw wrote the social satire equating most of Victorian life with prostitution.

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In Tony Kushner heaven with 'Angels in America'

For scarily close to two decades, "Angels in America" has been on my short list of theater I've been wanting - no, needing - to see again.

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In Tony Kushner heaven with 'Angels in America' by Linda Winer

For scarily close to two decades, "Angels in America" has been on my short list of theater I've been wanting - no, needing - to see again.

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'The Pitmen Painters' on Broadway by Linda Winer

With "Billy Elliot," Lee Hall, born in the mine country of northeast England, became the inspirational scribe for its hardscrabble people. In both his screenplay for the movie and his book f…

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A newspaper crisis, played for laughs

Newspaper people have cause for melancholy in their modern role as endangered species. But as the Keen Company reminds us in its lively and very likable New York premiere of Michael Frayn's …

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Yes, Virginia, it still is 'Orlando' . . .

There is more Virginia Woolf than Sarah Ruhl in "Orlando," the playwright's adaptation of Woolf's gender-smart novel about a noble 18th century lad who turns into a woman and lives to wise u…

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Falling in love all over again in 'Brief Encounter'

Last winter, fortunate theatergoers fell madly, hopelessly in love with "Brief Encounter," the enchanting British spin on the Noel Coward movie that had a limited sold-out run at the adventu…

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'Little Foxes' and 'The Divine Sister' by Linda Winer

Vulpines have seldom been as slinky and brutal as in Ivo van Hove's stunning evisceration of "The Little Foxes" - Lillian Hellman's 1939 potboiler about a greedy Southern family and the fate…

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'Little Foxes' and 'The Divine Sister'

Vulpines have seldom been as slinky and brutal as in Ivo van Hove's stunning evisceration of "The Little Foxes" - Lillian Hellman's 1939 potboiler about a greedy Southern family and the fate…

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Name theaters after people, not corporate sponsors

Ten years ago, I went berserk at news that the Roundabout Theatre Company had peddled the marquee of its new 42nd Street home as a corporate billboard. I swore in a column that I would never…

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Patti LuPone recalls going from Northport to Broadway by Linda Winer

Don't be lulled - OK, disappointed - by the nice chatty girl with the inspirational anecdotes who figures in the first half of Patti LuPone's memoir. She eventually does get to the juicy stu…

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Off-Broadway welcomes a trio of offbeat shows by Linda Winer

Before the tapping of big Broadway feet drowns out all other theater noise for the foreseeable future, it seems fair to steal the spotlight for these Off-Broadway enticements.

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Off-Broadway welcomes a trio of offbeat shows by Linda Winer

Before the tapping of big Broadway feet drowns out all other theater noise for the foreseeable future, it seems fair to steal the spotlight for these Off-Broadway enticements.

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Patti LuPone recalls going from Northport to Broadway by Linda Winer

Don't be lulled - OK, disappointed - by the nice chatty girl with the inspirational anecdotes who figures in the first half of Patti LuPone's memoir. She eventually does get to the juicy stu…

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Good twin, bad twin wears thin in Albee play by Linda Winer

Late-youth identity crises don't come more gene-splitting than the one that drives "Me, Myself & I," Edward Albee's playful, slight and surprisingly tiresome domestic vaudeville about twins …

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Lighting up Broadway marquees this fall by Linda Winer

17 shows on the Great White Way worth seeing this fall.

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What's in store Off-Broadway this fall by Linda Winer

A rundown of Off-Broadway productions coming this fall:

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A fall full of promise on Broadway by Linda Winer

You know how people are always complaining about the familiar glut of musical revivals on Broadway? Not this fall.

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New musicals dance with controversy by Linda Winer

Are some subjects just too serious, or too sensitive, or too unpleasant to be appropriate material for a musical?

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'War Horse': Magic at Lincoln Center

To describe "War Horse" as awesome is to regret the word's devaluation as praise for...

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Two decades where Broadway got its rhythm

The theater, like most of humanity's fun and profit, never falls as neatly into blocks ...

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Like a virgin: Said in the first Fanfare

THE STAR WE HATE TO LOVE...

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