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‘The Visit’ Theater Review: Chita Rivera and Roger Rees Perform a Gripping Dance of Death
This brilliant musical is a James Ensor painting drained of most colors, and the mix of John Kander’s riffs and plaintive ballads suit that dark vision to perfection
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‘Something Rotten!’ Theater Review: Or How a Musical Called ‘Omelette’ Begat a Play Called ‘Hamlet’
Christian Borle pulls off the rare feat of appearing simultaneously sexy and ridiculous as a Renaissance rock star named Shakespeare
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‘Doctor Zhivago’ Theater Review: Broadway Musical Targets Old Russia’s Top 1 Percent
“Somewhere My Love” stands out as the relative quiet in a storm of gun shots and bomb detonations
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‘Living on Love’ Theater Review: Picking Up Opera Where the Marx Brothers Left It Off
With all due respect to Renee Fleming, the real revelation is Douglas Sills, whose divo enters the pantheon of great and completely over-the-top comic creations
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‘Fun Home’ Theater Review: When Life With Father Is Anything but Easy
The play is to fathers what “Gypsy” is to mothers, and Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori have created a daddy who’s every bit as controlling as Mama Rose
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‘The King and I’ Theater Review: Ken Watanabe and Kelli O’Hara Make a Royal Pairing
Right from the opening song “I Whistle a Happy Tune,” we know we’re in the same confident hands that gave us Lincoln Center’s “South Pacific” seven years ago
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‘Finding Neverland’ Theater Review: Matthew Morrison Turns His Broadway Return Into Pure Child’s Play
Produced by Harvey Weinstein, this musical tale about J.M. Barrie’s creation of “Peter Pan” is kept magnificently low tech by director Diane Paulus
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‘It Shoulda Been You’ Theater Review: David Hyde Pierce Takes a Wedding Party to the Bank
This story of the beautiful bride’s plus-size sister could use more Melissa McCarthy and less Jenny Craig, but the circus around her rarely fails to entertain
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‘An American in Paris’ Theater Review: How Much Angst Can a Movie Musical Handle?
There’s a lot of gay and Jewish anxiety in this new stage version, but not to worry. Everyone still finds the time to sing “Fidgety Feet” and “Who Cares?”
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‘Wolf Hall’ Theater Review: Hilary Mantel’s Historical Saga Is Well Worth Six-Hour Investment
Actor Ben Miles negotiates the way Eliot Ness handled a tommy gun, and the fun of ‘Wolf Hall’ is watching what his Thomas Cromwell will think of next
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‘Gigi’ Theater Review: Vanessa Hudgens Turns a French Girl into a Very Pretty Woman
Refashioned for the “High School Musical” generation, “Gigi” sports a heroine who’s spunkier than a barrel of Disney princesses
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‘Hand to God’ Theater Review: Humans Are Here Simply to Service Their Puppets
Playwright Robert Askins will probably take this as a compliment, but by far the most interesting characters are the puppets
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‘Skylight’ Theater Review: Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy Bring New Fire to an Old Romance
Nighy’s performance is deliriously over the top, and the night’s biggest laugh comes when Mulligan does a spot-on impersonation of her co-star
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‘The Heidi Chronicles’ Theater Review: Elisabeth Moss Brings a Slightly Mad Woman Back to Broadway
“Mad Men” actress and co-star Jason Biggs effectively anchor a revival that finds others in the cast auditioning for “Fashion Police”
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‘Posterity’ Theater Review: ‘I Am My Own Wife’ Author Wrestles With the Legacy of Another Playwright
Art rarely survives when it is delivered with a capital A. Make that several capital A’s in the case of Doug Wright’s new play about Henrik Ibsen
