Theater Review | 'Moby Dick â Rehearsed': That Great White Whale Through a Wellesian Lens
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This ferocious drama, a poetic examination of one manâs obsession, is, among other things, a celebration of the stage.
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The philharmonicâs program, âPainters of Sound,â brought together John Coriglianoâs âPied Piper Fantasyâ and Berliozâs âSymphonie Fantastique.â
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Bruno Morettiâs music turns âOltremareâ into a theater piece both effective and evocative.
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âNovemberâ is a David Mamet play for people who donât like David Mamet. I cannot say I see this as a cause for rejoicing.
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It starts with a good old-fashioned epic, and ends with one. Citizen Kane, Orson Welles' 1941 biopic about a newspaper magnate, topped a poll of the 100 best films announced by the American Film Institute yesterday. At the bottom of the list was Ben-Hur, William Wyler's 1959 spectacle starring Charlton Heston.
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The famous Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" is about to hit the big screen, as film moguls Spielberg and Cruise bring the H.G. Wells' classic back into the popular imagination. Are we so clever today not be duped?
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A fantastically grotesque retrospective of an influential-yet-overlooked filmmaker. By Jason Silverman.
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A new Arthur Miller play is an event, not only for theatergoers who see it but for the actors and director who have an opportunity to create something with the man who, at age 89, is considered America's greatest living playwright.
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Lorin Maazel conducted a lucidly textured, rhythmically incisive and strongly conceived account of this touchstone opera.
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"Legong: Dance of the Virgins" is a delirious blend of sentimental fiction and ethnological fact. Also, Orson Welles's "It's All True" and "Spider-Man 2."
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This revised and expanded version of âGone Missing,â by the downtown theater troupe the Civilians, is fresh, breezy and very funny.
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A new play by David Hare heads the list of provocative theater in New York.
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This version of Moby Dick will be readable on an index card in 10 seconds.
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The Vineyard Theaterâs rare revival of J. M. Barrieâs elegantly plotted ghost story is an occasion of some interest.
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A 69-year-old former oil tanker moored in the companyâs container port in Red Hook, Brooklyn, has been transformed into the set for an opera, âIl Tabarro,â by Puccini.
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Cuckoldry is rarely as tedious or as raucous as it is in the East River Commediaâs revival of Fernand Crommelynckâs 1920 play.
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In this deeply funny play, Horton Footeâs authorial gaze is focused with satiric sharpness while retaining its elegiac sense of lifeâs transience.