Review | ‘Macbeth’ hits Broadway with Daniel Craig and weird direction
Even if one has mixed feelings about this production, it’s nice just to be back at a point where there is once again a Shakespeare play on Broadway, with a big star and a strong cast, that is doing sell-out business, and has an offbeat production concept.
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A Sleek ‘Macbeth’ Sacrifices Clarity for Innovation
Witches be cooking. In the 1600s, King James I of England blamed everything, including his mother’s death, on witchcraft. So he commissioned Shakespeare and Co. to put up a smear campaign against witches, the Bard answered the call by premiering The Tragedie of Macbeth for their main benefactor, the King himself, in 1606. Theater was […]
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“Mr. Saturday Night” is Just Not Very Funny
In Mr. Saturday Night, the musical based on Billy Crystal’s eponymous film from 1992, we meet Buddy Young, Jr. (played by Crystal), an aging Jewish comic who looks back at his illustrious career and craves to return to the spotlight. Caught in this desire to make something of himself again, are his wife Elaine (Randy […]
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