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First Nighter: Bette Midler Divine in I'll Eat You Last, Cicely Tyson's Beautiful Bountiful, Tristan Sturrock's Mayday Mayday

David Finkle | Posted 04.25.2013 | Arts
Read More: "Mayday Mayday, Tristan Sturrock, Philco Television Playhouse, "The French Connection, " St. Ann's Warehouse, Kneehigh Theatre, 'I'll Eat You Last, Barbra Streisand, The Oscars, Jeff Cowie, Gene Hackman, Henry Miller's Theatre, Condola Rashad, " Steve McQueen, "Buyer & Cellar, Julie Harris, Stephen Sondheim Theatre, Lois Smith, " Sue Mengers, " "The Trip to Bountiful, Geraldine Page, Lillian Gish, " Horton Foote, Tom Wopat, Scott Pask, Booth Theatre, Cicely Tyson, Ali MacGraw, Bette Midler, Ann Roth, Eva Marie Saint, Vanessa Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Arts News
David Finkle

Tuning into the gossip the Divine Miss M spews jubilantly as another Divine Miss M is such fun it hardly matters that five minutes after the romp ends, much of the dirt dished with such five-alarm relish has completely faded in the cool night air.

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First Nighter: Two Shakespeare "Problem" Plays Cause Additional Problems in Central Park

David Finkle | Posted 08.30.2011 | Arts
Read More: Jane Greenwood, Lorenzo Pisoni, Tonya Pinkins, Annie Parisse, Central Park, All's Well That Ends Well, Reg Rogers, David Esbjornson, Carson Elrod, Lucas Caleb Rooney, Elizabeth Hope Clancy, Michael Hayden, Scott Pask, Daniel Sullivan, The Public Theater, Measure for Measure, Danai Gurira, John Cullum, Dakin Matthews, Andre Holland, William Shakespeare, Arts News
David Finkle

The "problem plays" Shakespeare uncorked in the early 17th century contain enough problems that there's no call for directors and players to add new ones. That, however, is what's transpiring in the Public Theater's summer 2011 Central Park offerings.

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First Nighter: South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone Cheerfully Commit The Book of Mormon to Broadway

David Finkle | Posted 05.26.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Lion King, Star Wars, Lewis Cleale, Uganda, The King and I, Big Love, The Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, Jerome Robbins, Josh Gad, Nikki M. James, Michael James Scott, Star Trek, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Casey Nicholaw, Avenue Q, Hbo, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Comedy Central, Scott Pask, Andrew Rannells, Julie Taymor, Ann Roth, Robert Lopez, South Park, Entertainment News
David Finkle

The production is hardly a surprise attack by the nose-thumbing partners. It could be said they're going after Christianity as a whole with the appearance of a slang-spouting Jesus in a lustrous blond wig.

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