Nicky Silver's savagely funny "The Lyons" roars onto Broadway after a run at the Vineyard Theatre; Linda Lavin gives a master class in comic timing.
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Director-choreographer Rob Ashford talked Daniel Radcliffe into trying his hand at musical comedy. Alas, the likable and undeniably talented lad is in over his head.
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Book writer and lyricist Iris Rainer Dart tries too hard for our tears and laughter in this melodramatic musical about a former Yiddish theater star.
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The last show written by John Kander and Fred Ebb has pulled together, setting a high bar for Broadway musicals this season.
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This nifty little musical update of Aristophanes' classic comedy makes the leap from off Broadway to on without missing a funky step. It's a sassy, sexy, funny treat.
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Jez Butterworth's play falls in the tradition of works lionizing the nonconforming outsider whose outrageous behavior masks a pure heart that by contrast proves the mendacity of the society around him.
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Lucy Prebble's new play is like a big, shiny, beautifully wrapped package that once eagerly ripped open reveals a horde of Styrofoam peanuts through which you search vainly for the anticipated present.
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Sherie Rene Scott wraps up the 2009-10 Broadway season and saves Roundabout's schedule with a moving and wry self-examination.
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David Auburn’s “The Columnist,” from Manhattan Theatre Club, offers a fascinating portrait of political writer Joseph Alsop. Star John Lithgow is riveting.
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Despite two relatively recent Off-Broadway productions of the play, Linda Lavin breathes new life into Donald Margulies' two-hander about a veteran writer and her protégé.
