- 3/21/11 /
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Stage Dive: In Priscilla, the Glitter’s the Thing
Nothing you’ll experience here travels far outside the Palace's walls, but that’s just fine.
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- 3/18/11 /
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Theater Reviews: An Inventive Where’s Charley? and a Haunting Room
See 'Charley' for the delightful Rob McClure, and 'Room' for the heroic transformation of Virginia Woolf's words into dance.
- 3/18/11 /
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Theater Review: An Exquisite Revival of Arcadia Could Use a Wee Bit More
The revival of Tom Stoppard's tantalizingly unrequited romance between mind and body both charms and challenges its audience. And also, one senses, its cast.
- 3/15/11 /
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Stage Dive: Get This Virginia Woolf to Broadway, Even If We Have to Build a Theater!
The Steppenwolf production at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., is a bigger, badder version of the Albee classic, starring the brilliant Tracy Letts.
- 3/14/11 /
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Stage Dive: As Theater Critic, Jon Stewart Is the New Glenn Beck
Between Jon Stewart's endorsement for 'Book of Mormon' and Glenn Beck's for 'Spider-Man,' I find myself wondering if professional commercial theater needs to start courting the new tastemakers more aggressively.
- 3/10/11 /
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Stage Dive: At Sea With Peter and the Starcatcher
It never lands.
- 3/9/11 /
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Stage Dive: Merrily Rolls Back to Broadway. Maybe?
John Doyle's back in Cincinnati.
- 3/7/11 /
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Stage Dive: Shylock Goes to the Apple Store
Do u have lb of flesh?
- 3/7/11 /
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Stage Dive: The Faded Glory of That Championship Season
A strong ensemble can't quite pull out a win.
- 3/4/11 /
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Stage Dive: Three to See This Weekend
'The Method Gun,' 'Beautiful Burnout,' and 'Timon of Athens' offer rigorous good times off the beaten Broadway path.
- 3/4/11 /
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Stage Dive: The Bad Choices of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People
Is there anything on Broadway more dangerous than Frances McDormand's mouth?
- 3/1/11 /
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Stage Dive: Kirstie Alley, Broadway Baby?
Casting agents: Put on your thinking caps.
- 2/28/11 /
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Stage Dive: Half-Improv, All Funny
UCB's 'Gravid Water' returns tonight!
- 2/25/11 /
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Stage Dive: Three Things to Do Before You Die This Weekend
Things to do before you die this weekend.
- 2/25/11 /
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Stage Dive: Visits to Suburban Anomie, Violent New Orleans, and a Filthy Lower East Side
'White People,' 'Vieux Carre,' and 'The Hallway Trilogy.'
- 2/23/11 /
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Stage Dive: The Problem With Xtreme Theater
Are today's plays too dark? Or not dark enough?
- 2/22/11 /
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Stage Dive: Larry King, Still Live
He's going on tour!
- 2/20/11 /
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Stage Dive: A Gogol Twenty Years in the Making, and a Tennessee Williams Revival That Needed Another Couple of Weeks
In this Russian drama, Geoffrey Rush channels Daffy Duck.
- 2/18/11 /
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Stage Dive: The Sound and the Fury of Mandy Patinkin
Rinne Groff's ambitious new drama, 'Compulsion,' is about the man who first tried to turn Anne Frank's diary into a play, only to have it sentimentalized by Hollywood.
- 2/17/11 /
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The Ultimate Sondheim Spoiler Alert: Seven Secrets From Look, I Made a Hat
An early (and also fake) look at the Sondquel.
- 2/15/11 /
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Stage Dive: Four Odd Musical Adaptations Currently Roaming the Countryside
Newsies is coming!
- 2/14/11 /
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Stage Dive: Smash vs. Glee, Fake Beef of the Week
Here we go again.
- 2/11/11 /
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Stage Dive: Your Anti-Spider-Man Master Cleanse
Four modest alternatives to arachnoid musical maximalism for those who simply like their theater to make sense.
- 2/7/11 /
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Stage Dive: Live Theater Belongs on Your Lap
Broadway on your iPad? Why not?
- 2/4/11 /
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Stage Dive: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Bring Back ... Sincerity?
They say 'The Book of Mormon' isn't a parody of musicals. Thank God.