It hasn't even been a decade since the first production of the show left town. Did Broadway need another Ragtime? Seems premature. But it's hard to argue with a revival as surefooted as Marcia Milgrom Dodge's strikingly staged and vividly performed redo.
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Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs is back on Broadway 26 years after its original run in a production that's warm and funny (which was expected) and uninspired (which wasn't).