Mar 19, 2020
Stephen Sondheim’s felicitous flop
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On the successful failure of the 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along.
Topic: “Broadway”
Theater March 2020
Sex, race, ethnicity
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On Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice at the Signature Center, A Soldier’s Play at the American Airlines Theater, and West Side Story at the Broadway Theater.
Theater January 2020
The bijou from Peru
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On The Letters of Cole Porter, edited by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh.
Theater December 2019
Preoccupations present & past
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On The Sound Inside at Studio 54, Slave Play at the Golden Theatre & The Rose Tattoo at the American Airlines Theatre.
Theater June 2019
Brush up your Shakespeare
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On Kiss Me, Kate at Studio 54, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus at the Booth Theatre, and King Lear at the Cort Theatre.
Theater May 2019
States of chassis
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On Nantucket Sleigh Ride at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Juno and the Paycock at the Irish Rep, and The Cradle Will Rock at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater.
Theater April 2019
Back to beginnings
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On Merrily We Roll Along at the Laura Pels Theatre, Shadow of a Gunman at the Irish Rep, and Fiddler on the Roof at Stage 42.
Theater January 2019
Unsolvable problems
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On The Hard Problem at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, The Waverly Gallery at the John Golden Theatre & American Son at the Booth Theatre.
Theater December 2018
Start the revolution without me
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On Gloria: A Life at the Daryl Roth Theatre, Apologia at the Laura Pels Theatre, and The Lifespan of a Fact at Studio 54.
Theater September 2018
The great woke way
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On Carousel at the Imperial Theatre and My Fair Lady at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.