STALKERS AND TALKERS by JOHN LAHR

Sondheim and Stoppard on Broadway.

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UNNATURAL HISTORY by JOHN LAHR

Studies in psychology and slickness.
Initmate Apparel, Match.

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SCREWBALLS & ODDBALLS by JOHN LAHR

Comedy and collapse in “Twentieth Century” and “Well.”

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STUCK by HILTON ALS

“Frozen” and “Embedded.”

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KING FOR A DAY by HILTON ALS

Two leaders dethroned at Lincoln Center.

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BITTERSWEET by JOHN LAHR

“Fiddler on the Roof” and “Bridge and Tunnel.”

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SWAN SONGS by JOHN LAHR

A death-wish trifecta.

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THE TALK OF THE TOWN

LONDON POSTCARD: DARK MATERIAL by Louis Menand

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INNOCENCE ABROAD by JOHN LAHR

Adam Guettel’s Italian romance.

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THE BIG ROUNDUP by HILTON ALS

Richard Foreman takes on the ghosts of imperialism.

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TAKING STEPS by JOAN ACOCELLA

Savion Glover at the Joyce Theatre.

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THE TALK OF THE TOWN: STILL HAPPENING

Adam Green meets the last of the great press agents.

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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT by HILTON ALS

Wallace Shawn’s "Aunt Dan and Lemon."

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BLACKOUT by HILTON ALS

Tracey Scott Wilson on race, ambition, and journalistic ethics.

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DANCE-OFF by HILTON ALS

Love and tap in “Never Gonna Dance.”

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Tony Kushner’s Paradise Lost by Arthur Lubow

This article on Kushner, by Arthur Lubow, appeared in The New Yorker in November, 1992, shortly before "Angels in America" opened in New York.

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AMERICA, LOST AND FOUND by NANCY FRANKLIN

Mike Nichols and an all-star cast tackle Tony Kushner’s masterwork.

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UNDERWATER BLUES by JOHN LAHR

There are moments in the history of theatre when stagecraft takes a new turn. I like to think that this happened for the American musical last week, when "Caroline, or Change" bushwhacked a …

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SHOW AND TELL by JOHN LAHR

Seducing the citizens and the señoritas.
Henry IV, Anna in the Tropics.

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BABY, REMEMBER MY NAME by HILTON ALS

How to become a star, nineteen-eighties style.
"Taboo" and "Fame."

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THE BOARDS: CLOSED by Jeffrey Frank

Fawcett has tried to be staunch, but it is clear that the early death of “Bobbi Boland” is a torment.

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SONS AND LOVERS by HILTON ALS

Love triangles by Harold Pinter and Richard Greenberg.

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BITCHES AND WITCHES by JOHN LAHR

Ulterior motives in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Wicked.”

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THE TIES THAT BLIND by JOHN LAHR

A marriage dissolves in “The Retreat from Moscow.”

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DOWN UNDERDOG by HILTON ALS

The life and times of Australia’s pluckiest son.

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