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  Theatre in Review: No Man's Land (Cort Theatre)
"All we have left is the English language!" So says Ian McKellen early on in No Man's Land. Coming from him, it sounds like a cry of helplessness, but in the world of Harold Pinter's plays, language is the subtlest and ...
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Theatre in Review: Macbeth (Lincoln Center Theatre/Vivian Beaumont)
At the end of Macbeth, the title character's head is brought on stage, having been severed from his body. Then again, you could say that Macbeth had his head handed to him by the New York press, who found much to complain ...
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Theatre in Review: What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined (New York Theatre Workshop)
In What's It All About, Kyle Riabko takes on the mission of updating the songs of Burt Bacharach for the Millenial generation: Fair enough, although they have dated less than the work of nearly all his contemporaries, ...
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Theatre in Review: Regular Singing (The Public Theater)
As Cole Porter once wrote, "Every time we say good-bye, we die a little," and many fans of Richard Nelson's Apple Family plays will experience a little bit of death at Regular Singing, the fourth and final play in the series. ...
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Theatre in Review: The Commons of Pensacola (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center)
Recently, Manhattan Theatre Club has been giving prime theatrical space to plays by well-known actors. There's nothing wrong with this plan on the face of it, but so far it can't be said to be going well. We Live Here, by Zoe Kazan, ...
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Theatre in Review: Family Furniture (The Flea Theatre)
A.R. Gurney's new play is set at a summer cottage on Lake Erie, and it is a most apt location, for the family depicted here is very much like a lake: opaque when viewed from a distance, yet filled with hidden depths and equally ...
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Theatre in Review: Waiting for Godot (Cort Theatre)
Just because we live in an unfathomable void, should life be devoid of laughter? The answer is a categorical "no" in Sean Mathias' production of Waiting for Godot, the first of two revivals starring the astonishing ...
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Theatre in Review: And Away We Go (Pearl Theatre)
Terrence McNally's love-hate-love affair with the theatre finds its latest expression in And Away We Go. The prolific playwright has written about sex, politics, religion, and family relationships, but one persistent ...
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Theatre in Review: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Walter Kerr Theatre)
It's murder most delightful in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, a merrily heartless new musical that invites us to laugh -- no, cheer -- at decapitation, drowning, and other fiendish acts. Monty Navarro, the unlikely ...
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Theatre in Review: Too Much, Too Much, Too Many (Roundabout Underground)
Grief does strange things to people, but in Too Much, Too Much, Too Many, the characters' form of mourning is often distressingly cute. The elderly James, who has been slipping into dementia, has died, and his widow, Rose, ...
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Theatre in Review: One Night... (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre/Cherry Lane Theatre)
The title, One Night..., might sound a little bland, but it signals a dark night of the soul for its two lead characters, and a grim, yet gripping, entertainment for the rest of us. The lights come up on a seedy motel room, ...
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Theatre in Review: Little Miss Sunshine (Second Stage)
If you're going to make a musical, it's probably better not to select source material in which five of the six lead characters are clinically depressed: It limits the kind of songs you can write. This thought came to mind during Littl ...
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Theatre in Review: Richard III (Belasco Theatre)
As the largely ecstatic press notices have indicated, among the many reasons to catch both productions from Shakespeare's Globe in London include the opportunity to see the plays produced in a fair approximation of the Elizabethan style (in ...
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Theatre in Review: Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love (The Flea Theatre)
You know you're in trouble when you start to begin receiving visitations from the Olsen twins, those ex-TV stars and professional fashion victims. That's the bizarre fact of life facing Grace, the beleaguered heroine of Mallery Avidon
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Theatre in Review: Men in White (The Seeing Place)
Men in White occupies a singular place in theatre history: It's the play that saved The Group Theatre. After an initial run of five flops in two years, the soon-to-be-legendary troupe must have been enormously relieved to score a ...
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Theatre in Review: All That Fall (Jermyn Street Theatre/59E59)
In All That Fall, Eileen Atkins is currently offering the best demonstration I've ever seen of the law of gravity. As Mrs. Rooney, the woebegone heroine of Samuel Beckett's All That Fall, her body is ...
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Theatre in Review: The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters (Playwrights Horizons)
According to Marlane Meyer, the patron saint of sea monsters is St. Martyrbride; her spiritual purview also includes spinsters and those with childhood infirmities. She is entirely the playwright's invention; she isn't even one of ...
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Theatre in Review: After Midnight (Brooks Atkinson Theatre)
After Midnight brings back to Broadway an idea so old it is new again: adult entertainment. I don't mean heavy-breathing drama filled with graphic sex and violence. Indeed, restraint is the watchword of this new musical revue ...
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Theatre in Review: Domesticated (Lincoln Center Theatre/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre)
One thing you can say about Bruce Norris: He doesn't mince words. I realize that this is hardly news to anyone who has seen works such as The Pain and the Itch and Clybourne Park, but even so, seeing the scalding new ...
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Theatre in Review: How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
The term "mean girls" doesn't begin to describe the inhabitants of the hot little hell that Halley Feiffer has constructed in How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them. This story of three young things and how they ...
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