Thursday, January 30, 2014

Machinal (Roundabout Theatre Company)

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By Harry Forbes Sophie Treadwell’s innovative 1928 Expressionist drama inspired (though she denied it at the time) by a real-life murder ...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Beautiful (Stephen Sondheim Theatre)

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By Harry Forbes Yes, it’s a jukebox musical, and yes, the song placement is strictly of the “and then she wrote” kind, but “Beautiful” – ...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

Pagliacci – The Circus Princess (Amore Opera)

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By Harry Forbes It’s rare that the flavorful Viennese operettas of Emmerich Kalman get an airing around these parts, and when, once every...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Waiting for Godot - No Man’s Land (Cort)

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By Harry Forbes When Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen – and their estimable cast-mates -- take their curtain calls at the end of Samuel B...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Walter Kerr)

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By Harry Forbes Astute musical buffs may be forgiven if they think they’ve time traveled into some West End musical of the late 1950s or ...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Cyrano de Bergerac (VHRP Live!)

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By Harry Forbes Artistic Director Alyce Mott’s premiere effort for her VHRP Live! company (that’s the Victor Herbert Renaissance Project, ...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Twelfth Night and Richard III (Shakespeare's Globe)

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By Harry Forbes What a treat to see these simultaneously authentic and audacious productions of two such disparate Shakespeare plays back...