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First Nighter: Jekyll & Hyde, Orphans, Collapse Bow to Mixed Results

David Finkle | Posted 04.19.2013 | Arts
Read More: John Lee Beatty, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Matrix Theater, Steven Landau, Jeff Croiter, " Lyle Kessler, " Teal Wicks, Jackson Gay, Lane Smith, Alec Baldwin, Tobin Ost, Nadia Bowers, Robert Louis Stevenson, Paul Leiber, Women's Project, Terry Kinney, Deborah Cox, Harold Pinter, Joe Pantoliano, Kevin Anderson, John Mahoney, Ben Foster, Jack the Ripper, " Shia LaBeouf, "30 Rock, "Orphans, Jeff Calhoun, City Center Stage II, Steppenwolf, " Allison Moore, Elliot Villar, Constantine Maroulis, "Jekyll & Hyde, " "Collapse, Lee Savage, " Frank Wildhorn, "The Caretaker, Tom Sturridge, Hannah Cabell, Daniel Sullivan, Maurice McRae, Marquis Theatre, Arts News
David Finkle

If someone grabbed you on the street and yelled in your face for the next two and a half hours, what would you do? Well, the cast of the Jekyll & Hyde revival at the Marquis scream until your eardrums are ready to burst.

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First Nighter: Nathan Lane First-Rate, as Usual, in Douglas Carter Beane's New Play, The Nance

David Finkle | Posted 04.15.2013 | Arts
Read More: John Lee Beatty, Andrea Burns, Douglas Carter Beane, George Chauncey, Cady Huffman, Burlesque, Irving Place Theatre, Joey Pizzi, Jonny Orsini, Milton Berle, John Kander, Lincoln Center, Nathan Lane, Lewis J. Stadlen, Jenni Barber, Edward Hopper, Ann Roth, Horn & Hardart, Zero Mostel, Jackie Gleason, Texaco Star Theater, Lyceum Theatre, Fred Ebb, Jack O'Brien, La Cage Aux Folles, The Nance, Gay New York, Arts News
David Finkle

Plays conjuring Manhattan in the 1930s often take on the look of a live-action Edward Hopper painting. Not a bad thing. Actually, the effect is stunning when the curtain rises on The Nance.

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'Fiorello!' Succeeds: Will It Move To Broadway?

David Finkle | Posted 04.03.2013 | Arts
Read More: John Lee Beatty, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Erin Dilly, Ira Gershwin, Alex Sanchez, Kate Baldwin, Danny Rutigliano, 1945 Newspaper Deliveryman Strike, Jenn Gambatese, Sheldon Harnick, Texas Guinan, Tammany Hall, New York City, Shuler Hensley, George Abbott, Ken Billington, Tom Bosley, Jerry Bock, Jerome Weidman, John Weidman, " Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Adam Heller, Emily Skinner, George S. Kaufman, Gary Griffin, Musical Comedy, "Fiorello!, Morrie Ryskind, Jeremy Bobb, George Gershwin, James J. "Jimmy" Walker, Arts News
David Finkle

There may be two outstanding reasons why in 1960 Fiorello! was only the third musical to nab the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Both reasons are craftily on display in the sparkling Encores! revival at City Center.

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An Ardent Forest in Central Park: 'As You Like It'

Regina Weinreich | Posted 08.22.2012 | Home
Read More: Stephen Spinella, Renee Elise Goldsberry, John Lee Beatty, Shakespeare in the Park, Andre Braugher, Rosalind/ Ganymede, As You Like It, Daniel Sullivan, Donna Lynne Champlin, David Furr, Lily Rabe, Oliver Platt, Home News
Regina Weinreich

For fans of romantic comedy, a play that ends with three weddings is the ultimate fantasy. As You Like It, this summer's first Shakespeare in the Park...

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First Nighter: Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities" is Red-Hot

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Brian Wilson, Oscar Wilde, John Lee Beatty, Other Desert Cities, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sadoski, The Little Foxes, Noel Coward, David Zinn, Jon Robin Baitz, Ronald Reagan Republicans, Paramount Studios, Elizabeth Marvel, Joe Mantello, Linda Lavin, Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse, ABC's Brothers and Sisters, Stacy Keach, Stockard Channing, Nancy Reagan, Entertainment News
David Finkle

In the living-room of the luxurious Palm Springs home where Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities takes place, a long, curved stone wall looms upst...

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Brighton Beach Memoirs

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: John Lee Beatty, Neil Simon, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Noah Robbins, David Cromer, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

If the view from under the Brighton Beach is not quite today's world vision, it offers a nostalgia trip to the late 1930's that is worth glimpsing.

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