My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra recorded far more than 1,000 songs, so a tribute to his musical songbook would clearly need weeding.
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Tommy Carter's gritty 1989 drama holds up well as a lacerating look at police corruption and its inherent moral confusion.
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The title neatly sums up the euphoric charge generated by this feel-good musical. Writer-director Roger Bean, a master at fashioning intimate jukebox tuners ("The Andrews Brothers"), is in high-flying form with this world-premiere.
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Though flawed, this work by playwright Karen Hartman commands the viewer’s involvement as it illuminates the disorganization and the everyday, human aspect of the Israeli pullout from Gaza in 2005.
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Ellen Geer and Heidi Helen Davis have adapted Chekhov's classic, updating its setting and language to 1970 on a plantation in Virginia. Lillian Randolph Cunningham and her brother Gates Randolph were monied Virginians who have frittered away the family wealth.
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After four decades of nurturing librettists and songwriters, the Academy for New Musical Theatre makes its maiden foray into the nitty-gritty discipline of putting up a production.
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When you give a characterization your all, it pays off in big ways—even in the eyes of the smallest audience members.
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Henry Murray's debuting play offers intriguing new spins on the futuristic-thriller genre. Exploring the efforts that three teenage boys make to survive in a world decimated by climate changes and other sinister forces, Murray ruminates on the ties that bind us more than we might realize.
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An old couple sleeps, snoring loudly. The husband awakens first and looks at his wife. He gazes at her with love, tenderness, fear, a lifetime of memories—and the audience is quickly engaged.
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Franz Schubert, His Letters & Music
Conceived by Phillipe Calvario and Julia Migenes, directed by Peter Medak, the evening consists of the composer's lieder (he composed the music but not the lyrics) and his letters.
