Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Into the Woods’ Is Sheer, Moving Magic on Broadway
The Encores! production commanded queues around the block for its May engagement, and the audience for its Broadway production is buzzing as it takes it seats, rapturously applauding throughout, and thunderously ecstatic, standing as one whooping and clapping, at the end. Do all you can to book a ticket. This is a theatrical event to see and to savor.
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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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