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    • The Brit-import musical has grit, heart and spectacular dancing. Go Billy!

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    • David Mamet's petty-crooks drama from 1976 is loads of profane fun, despite unfortunate casting.

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    • Fans of Stephen Sondheim, brace yourselves: The latest is just not up to the master's high standards.


    • <em>Shogun Macbeth</em>
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    • For political junkies enduring postelection withdrawal, this twisty campaign drama is theatrical methadone.

    • <em>Back Back Back</em>
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    • Itamar Moses hits a home run with this engrossing tale of ball players, steroids and team spirit.


    • <em>Dawn</em>
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    • Thomas Bradshaw exposes the emotional fallout from a raging alcholic.

    • <em>Mindgame</em>
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    • Perhaps the looniest stage failure of the year, this is dinner theater served with an emetic.

    • <em>Saturn Returns</em>
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    • In Noah Haidle’s lightweight meditation on aging and memory, time doesn’t heal; it tears the flesh and leaves ugly scars.


    • <em>Streamers</em>
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    • The Roundabout revives David Rabe's 1976 psychodrama about young soldiers bound for Vietnam.

    • <em>Mouth to Mouth</em>
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    • Guilt drives the hero of Kevin Elyot's strange new play, presented by the New Group.

    • <em>The Language of Trees</em>
    • The Language of Trees

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    • In Steven Levenson's smart, touching new drama, a young family is torn apart by the Iraq War.


    • <em>Sleepwalk with Me</em>
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    • Mike Birbiglia tries to marry highly personal autobiography and stand-up comedy.

    • <em>Bury the Dead</em>
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    • Irwin Shaw’s antiwar play must have already seemed timeless in 1936; it suits today quite well, too.

    • <em>The Grand Inquisitor</em>
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    • Peter Brook directs a ruthlessly minimalist version of a Fyodor Dostoyevky's parable: It's antispectacle.


    • <em>If You See Something Say Something</em>
    • If You See Something Say Something

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    • Politically acute monologuist Mike Daisey will make you laugh and think—often at the same time.

    • <em>Romantic Poetry</em>
    • Romantic Poetry

    • John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) delivers a horrific musical flop, which earns the Theater department's first zero-star review.

    • <em>All My Sons</em>
    • All My Sons

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    • British director Simon McBurney delivers a fresh and revelatory take on  Arthur Miller's postwar drama.


    • <em>Rock of Ages</em>
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    • The new jukebox musical Rock of Ages, which crams 30 hard-hitting ’80s hits into a self-consciously campy romantic comedy, knows its demo.

    • <em>Equus</em>
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    • Yes, Harry Potter fans: The wizardly teen heartthrob is onstage, naked. But is there any magic happening up there?

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    • What’s the matter with kids today? A new musical illustrates the case.


    • <em>Basic Training</em>
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    • Kahlil Ashanti’s personable but unremarkable solo show traces his journey through boot camp to success in the Air Force’s in-house entertainment corps, Tops in Blue.

    • <em>Speed-the-Plow</em>
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    • David Mamet's 1988 satire says that Hollywood is full of hypocrites and pretentious jerks; is this still news?

    • <em>Blasted</em>
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    • Sarah Kane's ultraviolent, terrifying 1995 debut finally reaches New York; it's still shocking, and this production is near perfect.



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    Making <em>Waves</em>
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    Recent reviews

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    • Roundabout Theatre Company digs Robert Bolt’s 1960 historical drama out of the mothballs.

    • <em>Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab</em>
    • Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab

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    • Rehab, schmehab: Forbidden Broadway is flying high, and taking everyone along for the trip.

    • <em>The Seagull</em>
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    • The stars come out for Chekhov’s tragicomic daisy chain of she-loves-me-nots; do they shine?



    Broadway video

    • <em>August: Osage County</em>
    • August: Osage County

    • David Cote reviews the winner of the 2008 Tony for Best New Play, a spectacular dysfunctional-family epic.

    • <em>Young Frankenstein</em>
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    • Is Mel Brooks's latest film-to-Broadway musical adaptation alive—or a scary monster? David Cote reviews.



    Cultural gatekeepers: Theater

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    • Can anyone save us from the aging subscribers and rank commercialism that has paralyzed our city’s stages? Theater editor David Cote comes to the rescue.

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    • Q&A: André Bishop and Paige Evans

    • André Bishop, artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater, talks with his newest staffer, Paige Evans of LCT3.

    • <strong>Theater curator's calendar</strong>
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    • A peek inside the yearly planner of St. Ann's Warehouse artistic director Susan Feldman—a globe-trotting tastemaker.



    Best on Broadway

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    • The Broadway revival of Gypsy, starring the astonishing Patti LuPone, has now arrived at the—wow.

    • <em>August: Osage County</em>
    • August: Osage County

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    • Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts gives us the American fucked-up-family drama at its nastiest; the must-see this season.

    • <em>South Pacific</em>
    • South Pacific

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    • Bartlett Sher’s revival of South Pacific is faultlessly decorous; each moment whispers "masterpiece theater" into your ear.




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