Theater Review: Gem of the Ocean
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Style trumps content in this beautifully staged and acted production of August Wilson's new play, the ninth in his 10-play cycle of works dealing with black life in the 20th century.
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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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Ken Urbanâs new play is mystifying and frustrating. But there are satisfying elements in the production, which are rendered with wit and feeling by the versatile cast.
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Oren Safdieâs new play about playwriting and generational conflict is sweetly amusing, if dramatically limp.
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Tom Stoppard's epic eight-hour trilogy  "The Coast of Utopia" about 19th century Russian  revolutionaries has won rave U.S. reviews and defied fears that  its subject matter would be too heavy for theater goers.
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In a season plump with notable revivals of landmark plays, including Ibsenâs âGhostsâ and Beckettâs âHappy Days,â a rapturous interpretation of Anton Chekhovâs âSeagullâ flies higher than any of them.
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History hovers nearby at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where John Adams' ambitious but uneven work about the creation of the atom bomb is being staged just a few miles from the site of the world's first controlled nuclear chain reaction.
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Amy Foxâs sensitive new play nicely captures something of the loneliness and childlike joy of letting your imagination wander.
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Arts & entertainment: Epic trilogy Coast of Utopia sets new record at Tony Awards, rounding off a Broadway season in which British imports continued to dominate.
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Three new plays explore disparate lives pushed together by music, strife, time, and friendship.
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In 1984, "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea" premiered off-Broadway. Even then the premise was a familiar one -- two troubled souls seeking love and redemption.
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I have never seen a production of âKing Learâ that left me so utterly unmoved or that seemed so perversely out of touch with the playâs soul-wrenching depths as this whimsical storybook interpretation.
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Ocean&#39;s Twelve brings together an ensemble cast of uncommon magnitude for the second time. This may be the sequel&#39;s greatest achievement.
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In "Waiting for Godot,"  arguably Samuel Beckett's most celebrated work, two tramps are  on the lookout for something that never arrives. Audiences for  "Beckett Shorts" likely will be able to relate.
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Before I talk about "August: Osage County," and what is astonishing about this play, I want to start by stating the obvious. Playwrights don't go to the theater like other people. We don't go on our anniversaries or birthdays; we don't go because a play got a good review. (Most of us have stopped reading reviews, [...].
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Wednesdayâs performance of âWhat if Saori Had a Party?,â about dreams versus reality, is surprisingly intricate but more artful than engrossing.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.