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Television Review: ‘Smash,’ on NBC, With Debra Messing and Anjelica Huston
Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:34:04 PM CST
“Smash,” NBC’s series about backstage Broadway, comes with New York and Hollywood names off screen (Steven Spielberg, Therese Rebeck) and on (Debra Messing and Brian d’Arcy James).
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54 Below, Restaurant-Nightclub Under the Former Studio 54
Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:37:17 PM CST
The nightspot named 54 Below, a 160-seat space, is scheduled to open in early June with a two-week engagement by Patti LuPone.
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Arts & Leisure: ‘Carrie,’ a Huge Stage Flop, Is Reinvented by MCC Theater
Thursday, February 2, 2012 8:57:16 PM CST
One of Broadway’s greatest flops, “Carrie” is being dressed up, and toned down, for another onstage dance.
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In Its Next Life a Song Cycle Is a Musical
Friday, February 3, 2012 9:00:00 AM CST
The Prospect Theater Company’s revamped version of Adam Guettel’s “Myths and Hymns” has the potential to convince theaters everywhere that the piece is viable as a stage property.
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Comedy: National College Comedy Festival at Skidmore
Friday, February 3, 2012 12:34:27 PM CST
The National College Comedy Festival at Skidmore, next Saturday and Sunday, has become a place for young troupes to flex their muscles outside the glare of the professional arena.
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Arts | Connecticut: ‘Macbeth 1969’ at the Long Wharf Theater — Review
Saturday, February 4, 2012 11:00:06 PM CST
“Macbeth” is fast-forwarded to 1969, but without much success.
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Theater Review: Adapting Sophocles: ‘These Seven Sicknesses’ at Flea Theater
Friday, February 3, 2012 11:27:18 PM CST
“These Seven Sicknesses,” a condensed adaptation of Sophocles’ seven surviving plays, is being performed at the Flea Theater by its resident acting company, the Bats.
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ArtsBeat: 'Clybourne Park' to Open as Planned on Broadway
Friday, February 3, 2012 11:01:08 AM CST
The Broadway theater owner Jordan Roth on Thursday night assured the cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Clybourne Park" that the show would open on Broadway in April as planned, despite the departure of two of its lead producers.
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ArtsBeat: Primary Stages to Produce Horton Foote
Friday, February 3, 2012 2:03:35 PM CST
Three short plays by Foote, who died in 2009 at the age 92, will be performed together July 24-Sept. 15 under the direction of Pam MacKinnon ("Clybourne Park").
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ArtsBeat: Behind the Poster: 'Look Back in Anger'
Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:25:35 AM CST
A closer look at the poster for the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of John Osborne's 1956 play.
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Critic’s Notebook: Porcelain Portrayal of a Fragile King
Friday, February 3, 2012 9:48:00 AM CST
God save the king, as portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in the Donmar Warehouse's production of "Richard II," because he sure isn't up to saving himself.
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Theater Listings
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 11:24:06 AM CST
A selected guide to theater performances in New York, on and off Broadway.
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Theater Review: ‘Look Back in Anger,’ Starring Matthew Rhys
Sunday, February 5, 2012 5:04:02 PM CST
In the Roundabout Theater revival of John Osborne’s 1956 landmark play, “Look Back in Anger,” Matthew Rhys plays the British working-class antihero.
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Movie Review: ‘Carol Channing: Larger Than Life,’ by Dori Berinstein
Friday, February 3, 2012 2:53:06 PM CST
“Carol Channing: Larger Than Life,” a documentary by Dori Berinstein, chronicles the career of that theatrical clown “with huge saucer eyes, gigantic red lips and a massive smile.”
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Theater Review: ‘The Philanderer,’ From the Pearl Theater Company
Thursday, February 2, 2012 8:07:20 AM CST
“The Philanderer,” a drawing-room farce by George Bernard Shaw about “advanced” relationships, is worth seeing, if only because of Shaw’s admission that the cad was something of a self-portrait.
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Theater Review | 'Matilda': ‘Matilda,’ by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London
Thursday, February 2, 2012 3:49:19 PM CST
“Matilda,” the hit musical in London, follows Roald Dahl’s young character as she fights a sadistic headmistress.
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Performances for Valentine’s Day, or Thereabouts
Friday, February 3, 2012 3:17:17 PM CST
Beyond Broadway, possibilities for dates with a New York sweetheart include love songs, comedies, burlesque and readings in the buff.
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Critic’s Notebook: In London Theater, the Past Isn’t Dead, It’s Onstage
Friday, February 3, 2012 11:17:16 PM CST
Several current British productions, including “Lovesong,” “Travelling Light” and “The Kreutzer Sonata,” feature characters who recall earlier times.
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ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Brouhaha Over 'Clybourne Park'
Thursday, February 2, 2012 4:53:40 PM CST
The tempest over "Clybourne Park" vividly illustrates how small the universe of the Broadway theater really is.
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Ben Gazzara, Actor of Stage and Screen, Dies at 81
Saturday, February 4, 2012 12:30:54 PM CST
Mr. Gazzara’s long acting career included playing Brick in the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway and roles in influential films by John Cassavetes.