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To consider The Broken Heart as a soap opera is to fundamentally misconceive it. The author seemed clear enough that it was a tragedy and the text certainly sounds like a tragedy. The cast are not the problem. Each and every one attacks the play with verve and in the style cho…
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Mikey Jay-Heath is superb as Tom Thumb and his big number, Bigger Isn't Better, is wonderful in every way. Landi Oshinowa displays great vocal chops, twice. …
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Hiraeth, the story of a small town Welsh girl and her journey to the “Big City” covers well-trodden territory, but with its comedic genius, and toe tapping m…
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In the title role, Zoe Wanamaker is in terrific form. She is wholly believable as a woman out of place in the world but entirely at home in the confines of h…
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Watching David Leveaux' stylish revival at the Donmar Warehouse, Closer seems not so much a play about people who don't have children yet as a play about gro…
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Returning to a role he first played in Gale Edwards' 1996 Lyceum Theatre revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, Glenn Carter is in tremendous form as Jesus. As J…
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If your view of Greek tragedy is that it should be interminable, histrionic, lyrical, grand and unfathomably disturbing, then this Antigone is not for you. B…
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Although there are a few moments when the old girl creaks slightly, for the most part the staging feels contemporary and interest is snapped to attention rig…
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Let It Be is a musical celebration of the Beatles and the many, many glorious hits that they recorded during the decade from 1906 to 1970. The show does not …
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Wry and rapscallion, Cory English's Max is perennially down and out and glibly shooting the breeze simultaneously. Jason Manford carefully crafts Leo as a bu…
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