- 5/16/13 /
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Theater Review: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Ironic Detachment of 2012
A musical based on a section of War and Peace.
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- 5/10/13 /
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Theater Review: Is It Possible to Get Past the Ridiculousness of On Your Toes?
It's a weak production, too. And yet …
- 5/8/13 /
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Theater Review: Chasing Chekhov With Nikolai and the Others
"Nelson’s opening gambit — an appetizer of red herring — pays off spectacularly."
- 5/2/13 /
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Theater Review: A Trampling Bull With Bared Teeth
"It’s just cruel for the easy fun of it."
- 4/25/13 /
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Theater Review: Big Top Pippin
They added a circus!
- 4/24/13 /
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Theater Review: The Not Quite Divine Miss Mengers, in I’ll Eat You Last
"Do we really care how hard it is to make a living as a Sherpa on the slopes of power?"
- 4/23/13 /
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Theater Review: The Trip to Bountiful, Without Doilies
"The most brutal show in town right now."
- 4/23/13 /
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Theater Review: Imelda Is More Than a Woman in Here Lies Love
A disco musical shouldn't work. But ...
- 4/22/13 /
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Theater Review: The Quite Contrary Testament of Mary
Conceived without sin (but with tragedy).
- 4/21/13 /
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Theater Review: It Were Done Quickly, This Macbeth
It's cut to barely 100 minutes.
- 4/17/13 /
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Theater Review: The Heartbreak of The Assembled Parties
It ... may hit you like a punch to the heart.
- 4/16/13 /
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Theater Review: Odets’s The Big Knife Has No Sting
A hard play to defend.
- 4/15/13 /
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Theater Review: The Nance Makes Ideal Use of Nathan Lane
Douglas Carter Beane has written Nathan Lane his best new role in years.
- 4/14/13 /
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Theater Review: Motown: The Musical
The worst jukebox (with the best tunes) I’ve ever encountered.
- 4/12/13 /
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Theater Review: Matilda Is an Irresistible, Whiz-Bang Musical
Somehow, a goodly dose of Roald Dahl’s puckish sourness makes it onstage.
- 4/4/13 /
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Theater Review: Kinky Boots Steps Up and Stands Out
It’s never boring; it’s never shocking; you are likely to leave entirely entertained and satisfied.
- 4/4/13 /
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Theater Review: Barbra Will Not Like Buyer & Cellar, But I Do
Too hilarious, and oddly loving, to shut down.
- 4/2/13 /
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Theater Review: Eleven Years Later, a Return to The Last Five Years
"The structure enforces a cruel balance of joy and despair; someone is always high, someone hurting ... "
- 4/1/13 /
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Theater Review: Lucky Guy and Nora Ephron’s Love for Newsrooms
"Ephron was damned lucky; few writers write their best work last and manage to go out with a bang."
- 3/21/13 /
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Theater Review: Hands on a Hardbody
"How much can even a Texan want a truck?"