Theater
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‘China Doll’ Broadway Review: Al Pacino, David Mamet Play With Politics and Greed
Pacino never hides his technique, which is what makes him so entertaining to watch. Here, he brings out his entire arsenal of shtick
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‘Invisible Thread’ Theater Review: Musical’s Uganda Is Far From ‘Book of Mormon’
Director Diane Paulus eschews the pyrotechnics of her recent Broadway outings to embrace a minimalist approach that suits this autobiographical musical to perfection
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Audra McDonald, Martha Plimpton, Rumer Willis Join Movie Musical ‘Hello Again’
Film based on Michael John LaChiusa ‘s stage production also stars TR Knight, Jenna Ushkowitz
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Tony Awards Get New Venue, Air Date
The 2016 ceremony is the 70th annual award show for achievement on Broadway
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‘Important Hats of the Twentieth Century’ Theater Review: Camp Meets High Fashion
“Orange Is the New Black” writer-producer Nick Jones has fashioned a hilarious, always hallucinatory new Off Broadway comedy about a time-traveling clothing designer
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Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire Movie ‘Holiday Inn’ Heads to Broadway in New Musical Adaptation
Roundabout Theatre production will premiere in 2016, with new book based on 1941 Hollywood classic and tunes from entire Irving Berlin catalog
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‘Steve’ Theater Review: Same-Sex Marriage Can Be Anything But Gay
Mark Gerrard borrows from the Terrence McNally school of insult humor, with Kristin Chenoweth and Audra McDonald being trashed in jokes that don’t land
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson Returns to Broadway in 1-Man Comedy ‘Fully Committed’
“Modern Family” star will play 40 characters in production opening April 2016
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‘Incident at Vichy’ Theater Review: Arthur Miller Rarity Looks Back at WWII France
The playwright is at his best with the back and forth on whether the Nazis have no table manners or are the best audiences for music in the world
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‘Misery’ Broadway Review: Bruce Willis, Laurie Metcalf Play Crazy Cat and Injured Mouse
Willis gives a credible performance, but as a stage actor he doesn’t show much invention or variety
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Daniel Radcliffe on Harry Potter Play: Seeing Another Actor as Wizard ‘Would Be Very Weird’ (Video)
Actor will not reprise iconic role in upcoming stage play by JK Rowling
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‘A View From the Bridge’ Broadway Review: Ivo van Hove Strips Arthur Miller to the Bare Bone
Mark Strong, in a powerful performance, turns Eddie Carbone’s tragedy into an utter inability and unwillingness to understand his own motives
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White Actor Cast as Martin Luther King Jr. Outrages ‘Mountaintop’ Playwright
Writer Katori Hall calls the casting choice in a recent Ohio production “a self-serving and disrespectful directing exercise”
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‘Dada Woof Papa Hot’ Theater Review: John Benjamin Hickey Grapples With New Kind of Marriage
Peter Parnell has a real ear for mixing up the new gay (family values) with the old gay (great, uninhibited sex), and having his lead character torn between the two
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‘Lost Girls’ Theater Review: Piper Perabo Is Mad as Hell at Men and Everybody Else
The men in John Pollono’s new play are so verbally battered by women they could qualify for FEMA
