'Grey Gardens' is poignant Broadway stuff
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The musical based on a documentary showcases Christine Ebersole's performance of a lifetime
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The literature of the American theater is chockablock with dysfunctional-family dramas, stories about fathers loathing mothers, wives resenting husbands, brothers and sisters who care too much
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The actor Jefferson Mays is putting his own spin on professor Henry Higgins in the first major Broadway revival of George Bernard Shawâs âPygmalionâ in more than two decades.
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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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The stunningly staged, bizarrely ambivalent new musical is a sentimental yet sinister show steeped in Jungian shadows as seen at the Prince Edward Theater in London.
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&quot;Broadway! It&#39;s the street of dreams,&quot; says Julie Andrews breathlessly, as though the phrase had just been coined. There follows a river of reality, grim and otherwise, but usually fun.
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Bob Glaudiniâs modest, quietly moving drama offers a needed corrective to flashier, more widely disseminated depictions of the meaner streets of Manhattan.
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Imagine a John Lennon musical on Broadway. It's easy if you try.
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There is nary a shriek, of either humor or horror, in this musicalâs drably earnest two hours of throaty sturm und drang.
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Oren Safdieâs new play about playwriting and generational conflict is sweetly amusing, if dramatically limp.
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Between January and June there will be 12 plays opening on Broadway. For those who like their words unsung, itâs a beautiful thing.
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"The Coast of Utopia," Tom Stoppard's sprawling tale of 19th-century Russian intellectuals, and "Spring Awakening," a pounding post-rock musical of teenage sexual anxiety, dominated the recently concluded Broadway season.
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It is still possible to attend even the most in-demand Broadway shows at remarkably good prices, but itÂs not easy.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ  uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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Although this past season was crowded, a sizable chunk of Broadway is going to be dark by the end of the summer.
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The current of intellectual energy snapping through the ferociously engaging screen adaptation of Alan BennettÂs Tony Award-winning play feels like electrical brain stimulation.
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Set at a small Catskills  resort in the 1950s, when writers were blacklisted for alleged  Communist sympathies, Michael Elias&#39; play is shot through with  the kind of nostalgia that signals deep personal involvement.  But it leaves out the details of why this means something to  him, and so it fails to engage the audience with an emotional  back story.