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Summer 2012 Reviews and Features Far From Heaven …
Dogfight - With a bit of luck, enough good reviews and the positive-word-of- mouth that has been generated since previews began, this new musical will follow the path that catapulted …
Summer invariably brings Shakespeare production to parks. But The Drilling Company's has once again chosen a di…
Monday, July 09, 2012Latest Reviews & Features New York Macbeth - Alan Cumming's solo Macbeth offers a chance to hear the lines delivered in an authentic scottish voice-- check back …
Mark St. Germain, Dr. Ruth and Barrington Stage have found the right formula for a solo show with dramatic oomph. . . …
Summer 2012 Reviews The Importance of Being Earne…
Summer 2012 Reviews Fiddler on the Roof - What …
The Signature Theatre Center will be a film buffs' home. called Signature Cinema. The idea is to showcase films written by playwrights and films tha…
You might want to vcheck out one of 3 FREE performances of a Noel Coward revue by musical theater …
The Most Happy Fella - DiCapo Opera's four-week run of Frank Loesser's classic musical is a rare chance to hear it sung unplugged . . . Read More
Harvey - It's great to see Jim Parsons bringing more young people to the theater. If smart casting like this can help to make all Roundabout shows and not just …
Latest Off-Broadway Reviews. . . Rapture, Bliste…
Big Tony Winners (L-R): A scene from Best Play Clybourne Park. . .Nina Arianda Best Performance in Venus in Fur. . .Steve Kazee Best Performance with also nominated co-star Cri…
Food and Fadwa - . . . The volatile West Bank setting with its check points, curfews and long history of hostilities adds a strong and geographically specific politi…
Pictured above scenes from recently reviewed. . . My Children! My Africa!- The preachy speeches and too leisurely pace notwithstanding, Ruben Santiago-Hu…
Wednesday, May 23, 2012Latest Reviews & Features February House This musical sketchbook of Brooklyn's ar…
It's been an especially busy week for Curtainup's London critics.. .The Hairy Ape- The first major London revival ofEugene O'Neill's 1922 impressionistic play and study of aliena…
Whether Megan Hilty's Ivy gets to play Marilyn in Smash or not-- she's smashing in the Encores! revival of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes-- In that …
Monday, May 07, 2012Awards News: Lucille Lortell Awards nominees & winners . . .Tony Awards nominees. . . Drama Desk Awards nominees. . . List of Outer Critics Circle nominees. . . A…
At Classic Stage it's a more fun focus for A Midsummer Night's Dream- In case you forgot, Shakespeare's natural bent was comedy. Classic Stage' s Dream proves i…
Click title for more.. .Don't Dress for Dinner- a well-performed sequel but not equal to Marc Camoletti's Boeing, Boeing . . .Leap of Faith- Even with the magnetic Raul E…
The pre-Tony Awards crush of plays opening on Broadway brought two plays with hysterically funny dinner party scenes and a third that aimed for laughs from what happ…
The best play seen on Broadway this week. . .Clybourne Park- if you havent seen Bruce Norris's Pulitzer Prize winning play, don't miss its Broadway production. If you saw it at Playwri…
The Risks and Rewards of Moving a Show from Off Broadway to Broadway There isn't a show that opens at a &nbs…
Simon Callow in Being Shakespeare Being Shakespeare- Simon Callow cogently explores what Shakespeare achieved andexperienced in his lifetime. .…
