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Director Daniel Sullivan and a venerable ensemble led by David Hyde Pierce blow the dust off this minor gem, providing two hours of diversion from whatever you may need diverting from.
The new production of the musical "Ragtime" at the Kennedy Center in Washington is explosive and thrilling, at least after the intermission.
There are voyeurs known as ambulance chasers, and then there is a subset known as theatrical ambulance chasers, who boast of having seen such monumental fiascos as "Moose Murders," which clo…
The play runs to 100 tortured, and torturing, intermissionless minutes, perhaps to deny us a respite during which we might speculate about just how lucrative the trade in boulders could have…
The British prime minister and most of his cabinet have been assassinated by a right-wing nut job. Philip, the title character in Christopher Hampton's The Philanthropist, revived by the Roundabout Theatre Company on Broadway, is nonplussed. "But it's a Tory government," he points out to his cocktail-party guests. Philip delivers the line in an affectless monotone that's a parody of the disengaged academic he is. It also expresses the entire emotional range traversed by Matthew Broderick, the actor playing him.
Two of England's premier actresses, Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter, have returned Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart to Broadway after a 40-year absence.
The result is a better show, though still one that's easier to admire than love.
Sitting across from me, playwright Michael Jacobs is smiling gamely. He's just been mugged, possibly to the tune of about $3 million.
Chasing Manet, at New York's 59E59 Theaters, stars Jane Alexander and Lynn Cohen in a highly civilized play that brings Tina Howe, one of our subtler playwrights, back to the fore. It's nice to have her back, even at her somewhat too-tame second best.
