- 5/1/12 /
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Scott Brown: Who Got Snubbed at the Tony Nominations?
Unfairly passed over, according to our theater critic: Nicky Silver, Finn Wittrock.
Stage Dive
- 4/27/12 /
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Theater Review: Leap of Faith Falls Short
Leap feels like the not-awful, not-wonderful product of a long series of compromises.
- 4/27/12 /
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Theater Review: Don’t Bother With Don’t Dress for Dinner
The gags all unfold at half speed, as if forestalling mortality.
- 4/26/12 /
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Theater Review: Get Me Rewrite on The Columnist
A gentle approach where ferocity might do better.
- 4/24/12 /
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Theater Review: Ghost: The Musical Is Technically Impressive, and Musically Silly
And no potter's wheel: Sorry, purists!
- 4/23/12 /
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Theater Review: A Lot of Admiration for an Unorthodox Streetcar Named Desire
It's firing on all cylinders.
- 4/21/12 /
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Theater Reviews: The Stage Dive Weekend Roundup
The Three Sisters, In Masks Outrageous and Austere, and Poor Baby Bree.
- 4/20/12 /
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Theater Review: Clybourne Park Is a Mighty Racial Cage Match
Abandon all pieties, ye preening progressives (white or black) who enter here.
- 4/19/12 /
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Stage Dive: One Man, Two Guvnors, All Comedy
A marvelously executed, deceptively straightforward bit of comic roughhouse.
- 4/6/12 /
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Theater Reviews: The Stage Dive Weekend Roundup
4000 Miles, Elephant Room, The Taming of the Shrew and Being Shakespeare
- 4/6/12 /
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Theater Review: Throwing Up My Hands at Evita
Should you keep your distance?
- 4/3/12 /
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Theater Review: The Paradox of End of the Rainbow
Not getting happy.
- 3/30/12 /
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Theater Review Weekend Roundup: The Fifties, Real and Imagined
Regrets and Pipe Dream.
- 3/30/12 /
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Theater Review: Newsies and the Pleasures of the Gateway Musical
It’s harder to fake than you’d think.
- 3/23/12 /
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The Stage Dive Weekend Roundup: The Big Meal and No Place to Go
Aside from the two Jesuses on Broadway, that is.
- 3/23/12 /
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Theater Review: Good Lord, It’s Jesus Christ Superstar
"I often wondered whether someone was pulling my leg."
- 3/19/12 /
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Theater Reviews: Once Wins Over the Twee-Averse
Plus: Reviews of Lifeline and That Beautiful Laugh.
- 3/16/12 /
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The Stage Dive Weekend Review: All Hands and The Maids
Tales of secret societies and class wars.
- 3/16/12 /
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Theater Review: Mike Nichols’s Staggering New Death of a Salesman Goes Back to the Source
Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield.
- 3/9/12 /
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The Stage Dive Weekend Review
Tribes, An Iliad, and more.
- 3/2/12 /
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Carrie Is Back and As Serious As a Telekinetically Induced Heart Attack
And the rest of the weekend roundup.
- 2/24/12 /
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The Stage Dive Weekend Roundup: Galileo and Early Plays
F. Murray Abraham defies the pope.
- 2/21/12 /
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Theater Critic Scott Brown Reviews Smash’s Show-Within-the-Show for Week Three
Including that Bruno Mars thing at La MaMa.
- 2/17/12 /
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Theater Reviews: The Stage Dive Weekend Roundup
Rinde Eckert, Paula Vogel, and (a fictionalized) Jayson Blair.
- 2/17/12 /
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Theater Review: We Boldly Go to Shatner’s World
"Everything you’d expect it to be, only more so."