The Revived and Reinvented 1776 Is a Delight, If You Can Stand to Watch It
This Lex post of a cast opens the show by stepping silently into the Founding Fathers’ buckled shoes while staring defiantly into the audience. It’s important to keep an open mind, but a lot of minds will have to be pried open like a stubborn pistachio. And yet, if you can pry … well, I’ll be damned. It’s an absolute blast.
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Loss and Remembrance are at the Heart of the Magnificent ‘Leopoldstadt’
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