Wednesday, January 25, 2023

The Collaboration (Manhattan Theatre Club)

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By Harry Forbes Playwright Anthony McCarten, who’s written solid screenplays based on real-life personages (e.g. “The Two Popes” (Benedict X...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

Merrily We Roll Along (New York Theatre Workshop)

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By Harry Forbes The latest revival of Stephen Sondheim’s 1981 Broadway failure proves, yet again, that the work, adapted by George Furth fro...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Some Like It Hot (Sam S. Shubert Theatre)

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By Harry Forbes The 1972 Jule Styne-Bob Merrill musical “Sugar” -- based, like the current offering, on Billy Wilder’s riotous 1959 film -- ...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Downstate (Playwrights Horizons)

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By Harry Forbes Here’s a gripping adult drama from Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris (“Clybourne Park”) about four sex offenders -- all of ...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

& Juliet (Stephen Sondheim Theater)

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By Harry Forbes Here’s an often witty and generally clever feminist riff on “Romeo and Juliet.” In this telling, William Shakespeare's s...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

The Rat Trap (Mint Theater Company)

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By Harry Forbes Noel Coward’s first substantive play -- written when he was 18 but not produced for several years later (and then at Hampste...
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Monday, November 14, 2022

A Man of No Importance (CSC Repertory)

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By Harry Forbes The first mainstream New York revival of the 2002 musical created by Lynn Ahrens (lyrics), Stephen Flaherty (music), and Ter...