Friday, June 30, 2023

Days of Wine and Roses (Atlantic Theater Company)

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By Harry Forbes I recently watched the 1958 “Playhouse 90” television version of JP Miller's “Days of Wine and Roses” to have a frame of...
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Sugar (J2 Spotlight)

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By Harry Forbes It was a brilliant programming decision, to be sure: reviving “Sugar,” the 1972 adaptation of Billy Wilder’s 1959 “Some Like...
Friday, May 5, 2023

Iolanthe (or The Peer and the Peri) (MasterVoices)

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By Harry Forbes It’s only May, but I’m betting dollars to donuts that this starry production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s seventh comic opera w...
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Cyrano de Bergerac (Victor Herbert Renaissance Project Live!)

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By Harry Forbes “You’re about to see a flop,” VHRP Artistic Director Alyce Mott impishly teased the packed house a few moments before the cu...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Camelot (Lincoln Center Theater)

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By Harry Forbes Director Bartlett Sher's winning streak of lavish musical revivals at the Vivian Beaumont has hit something of a bump wi...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

The Harder They Come (The Public Theater)

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By Harry Forbes The 1972 Perry Henzell Jamaican film starring Jimmy Cliff was an international hit and spawned an influential soundtrack alb...
Monday, April 3, 2023

The Coast Starlight (Lincoln Center Theater)

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By Harry Forbes How many films and plays have we seen wherein a motley set of characters interact aboard a ship, a plane, or a train? But Ke...