Theater Review | 'Brief Encounter': Arm’s-Length Soul Mates, Swooning but Stoically Chaste
The acrobatics of love are performed in high style in “Brief Encounter,” which is surely the most enchanting work of stagecraft ever inspired by a movie.
The acrobatics of love are performed in high style in “Brief Encounter,” which is surely the most enchanting work of stagecraft ever inspired by a movie.
The new Broadway season got off to a romantic start last night as "Brief Encounter" opened at Studio 54. The show arrives there by way of the U.K., where it was created by the Kneehigh Theat…
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One-person stage shows are usually the province of energetic young up-and-comers, but nobody told that to Kirk Douglas.
Work as imaginative and wholly successful as "Brief Encounter" doesn't come along every day. It was an exhilarating reminder of why I fell in love with the theater in the first place.
Anyone who knows the classic film Brief Encounter remembers the star-crossed love story at its center: two married people fall madly in love with eac...
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About the author:Emma Rice will do whatever it takes to tell a story. As the artistic director of Cornwall-based Kneehigh Theatre and adapter/director of Broadway's latest British import,
With his latest assignment, Michael Cerveris continues to be arguably the most versatile leading man on Broadway.
Annie Potts, now starring in God of Carnage, trained in the stage arts, but she never got much chance to use it. A little thing called episodic television got in the way.
Harvey Fierstein on the roof! Sounds crazy, no?
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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…
Legit Reviews: Show uses ingenious theatricality to combine a dollop of nostalgia, a dose of sentiment and a scent of satire into a frothy mix.
By using the sophisticated stagecraft available to contemporary directors, Emma Rice has created a hybrid of live drama with black and white filmic details and music that takes us into the i…
Eddie Izzard, the British comedian who made a splash in the U.S. with the double Emmy Award-winning HBO airing of his solo show Dress To Kill, is perched to become known for his crossover in…
Harvey Fierstein on the roof! Sounds crazy, no?
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Katie Finneran, who won a Tony Award playing a ditz in the revival of Noises Off, is back on Broadway in Mauritius.
Audra McDonald talks about her upcoming concert with Barbara Cook.
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