Despite some structural problems and a few gaps in credibility, Theresa Rebeck's new play on the backstabbing backstage world of the contemporary theatre is a fast, funny 90 minutes.
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Richard Foreman is at it again. His latest work is just as obscure and bizarre as his 50-odd others, and despite a vital performance from Willem Dafoe, it fails to do more than confuse.
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This musical version of "Ninotchka" was a disappointing Broadway swansong for Cole Porter, and Musicals Tonight!'s inelegant concert presentation fails to mitigate history's verdict. - Review
You can’t quite explain why a good match on paper may inspire little passion in real life; even if you locate the crucial elements, the calculus of combining them is impossibly reductive.
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Thanks to the tremendous specificity and detail of Redgrave's writing and acting, "Nightingale" is a haunting elegy and a moving act of love.
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By the time you're sent home, you feel as if writer-performer Jenny Allen is one of your best friends, and you want to call her up and make plans for Sunday brunch.
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The attention-grabbing premise promises more than the show can deliver, despite the cast's commitment and one actor's magnificent physique.
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Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter
This is a 50-minute cabaret act with a central gimmick allowing songstress Holland to raid the Cole Porter songbook.
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Before the first song of Adam Gwon's "Ordinary Days" has ended, you're aware you're in the hands of a talented composer-lyricist with an unusually fine command of craft.
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The Obie-winning Musicals Tonight! is pulling off a small coup with its sensitive concert staging of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's gold-rush musical, "Paint Your Wagon."
