Broadway review: ‘Into the Woods’ revival a must-see triumph
If I had the time and money, I could happily sit through every single performance of the exceptionally cast, musically perfect, joyous and glorious Broadway revival of “Into the Woods,” Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1987 musical of fairy tale mashups, moral probing, and community responsibility, which is playing a limited run through the end of the summer at the St. James Theatre.
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‘The Bedwetter’ Shows What It’s Really Like for a Girl
I’ve never really understood Sarah Silverman, I don’t get her “quirkily” vulgar comedy, her baby-voiced delivery, or her music video about “fucking Matt Damon”. Maybe it’s a generational thing, who knows. Regardless, I was quite nervous walking into The Bedwetter, a new musical playing at the Atlantic’s Linda Gross Theatre, based on Silverman’s memoir The […]
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On Then and Now
Robert Icke is a Shakespeare purist, which is not to say that his actors will turn up in codpieces and rosettes, rapping pentameter over an underscore of viol and lute. In fact, it seems that he never bothers with ghosts of the Elizabethan past, but rather, distills the essence of the Bard’s works in the […]
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