Theater Review | 'Golden Boy'
The Sweet Science vs. the Stradivarius
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Lincoln Center Theater’s blistering production of Clifford Odets’s “Golden Boy,” directed by Bartlett Sher, features a superb cast of almost 20 actors.
Kathleen Turner plays the leading role and directs the 1964 play “The Killing of Sister George” at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven.
Lincoln Center Theater’s blistering production of Clifford Odets’s “Golden Boy,” directed by Bartlett Sher, features a superb cast of almost 20 actors.
The rapid fall of David Mamet’s new play, “The Anarchist,” raises questions about business on Broadway, especially the producer-playwright relationship.
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The actress performs a scene from Eve Ensler's show about young women around the world.
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“Hearts Like Fists,” by Adam Szymkowicz, is a comedy, but with a villain and fight scenes.
The actress performs an excerpt from Eve Ensler’s play “Emotional Creature.”
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In “Let’s Kill Grandma This Christmas” a family considers permanently getting rid of an especially difficult grandmother.
Van Cougar, a troupe that bases its shows on found texts, re-enacts viral videos in “Tube,” at St. Mark’s Church.
“A Civil War Christmas,” by Paula Vogel, sets history as a backdrop to human dramas.
Love may or may not make the world go round, but it's certainly doing its bit for the London theater, from "Twelfth Night" and "Kiss Me Kate" to "Boy Meets Boy" and "The Effect," the galvanic new play by Lucy Prebble.
In “Golden Age,” Terrence McNally’s latest play, he sets the action on the opening night of Bellini’s opera “I Puritani,” in Paris in 1835.
“My Name Is Asher Lev,” adapted from Chaim Potok’s novel, centers on a young man dealing with traditional Hasidic expectations and the outside pull he feels as an artist.
Patti LuPone and Debra Winger star in David Mamet’s “Anarchist,” a heavily embroidered slip of a play.
“Chris March’s The Butt-Cracker Suite!” is a campy reinvention of Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker,” which Mr. March calls a “trailer park ballet.”
By the time it closes, "Glengarry Glen Ross" will have played a full half of its run without having to face any official critical scrutiny.
A report on audience demographics for 2011-12 season found that foreign visitors accounted for more than 18 percent of Broadway tickets sold.
Robin Byrd, famed for her raunchy cable talk show and Time Warner’s bid to limit access to it, is back, but onstage, not television.
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