Putting a Still-Vexed Play in a Historical Context
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Shakespeare's most problematic play Â at least with respect to modern sensitivities Â receives an intelligent interpretation from Michael Radford and a superb cast.
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The forthcoming theater calendar seems distinguished by its fixation on invention.
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'The History Boys,' a Tony Award-winning play, gets a literate treatment on screen.
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Long before the curtain was raised in Birmingham on a play called âBehzti,â it was known that several elements of the production could cause offense to some members of the audience.
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A 17th century "Star is Born," though with interestingly convoluted sexual politics and a provocative historical thesis.
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Lest anyone think that a play with three ethnic slurs in its title is going to dance around the subject of race and the limits of tolerable discourse, be advised that the bombshells are hurled from its opening moments.
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John Patrick Shanley's play, which involves a clash of wills and generations between a nun and a priest, is tight, absorbing and expertly acted.
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In Stephen Massicotteâs excellent new play, T. E. Lawrence and Robert Graves are two veterans and it takes no leap of the imagination to translate their World War I experiences into stories from todayâs newspaper.
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While Leo Tolstoyâs play remains an intriguing curiosity, more interesting than good, it should be a must-see for students of Russian literature.
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Staged photographs produce some class acts
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A canceled play, a damaged theater, a playwright in hiding.
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Adam Bockâs new play provides a nifty hour and change of light comedy that bleeds into dark finger-wagging.
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This stage version of Kurt Vonnegutâs antiwar 1969 masterpiece faithfully retains the novelâs pivotal moments. But woe to the spectator unfamiliar with the material.
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A new initiative revives one of the great literary controversies: that the Bard was not who we think he was
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On Sunday, the Patriots play for a place in history.
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By Simon Neville  IT is a site that has always entertained an audience of some sort, although the performers these days are very different from those in the late 1800s.
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The stage adaptation of Reginald Rose's drama from the 1950's definitely creaks with age. But somehow the creaks begin to sound like soothing music.