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Broadway Review: “Doubt: A Parable” at the Todd Haimes Theatre (Through Sunday, April 21)

“Doubt” can produce several similar congenial feelings such as uncertainty, suspicion, uneasiness, apprehension, distrust and confusion. Usually there is a situation or event that occurs that may be the cause, or possibly misinformation that may initiate speculation and accusation. The striking Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s riveting drama, rightfully titled “Doubt,” now playing at the newly named Todd Haimes…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Jonah” at Roundabout Theatre Company (Closed Sunday, March 10, 2024)

The time “Jonah,” currently running at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre, takes place is described in the program as “The past and the present. But everything is slippery.” ‘Slippery’ is the operative word here. Everything is slippery in “Jonah” in addition to the time: the series of bedrooms in Wilson Chin’s cerebral and surreal design; the changeability and moodiness…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Exception to the Rule” at the Black Box Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center (Closed Sunday, June 26, 2022)

In “Exception to the Rule,” currently playing at the Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center, is playwright Dave Harris more concerned about what might be the exception to the rule in his play’s inner-city high school classroom or what is the rule that looms over classroom one eleven’s detainees on the last day of the week…

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Broadway Review: “Caroline, or Change” at Roundabout’s Studio 54 (Closed Sunday January 9, 2022)

Racism, sexism, economic disparity, and stagnation roil beneath the surface Caroline Thibodeaux’s (an embattled yet resilient Sharon B Clarke) deep unhappiness, disappointment, and resistance to change in Tony Kushner’s “Caroline, or Change.” Currently enjoying a successful revival at Roundabout’s Studio 54, the Kushner/Tesori musical focuses on Caroline’s long days in the Louisiana “under water” basement of the Gellman family. “Sixteen…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Scotland, PA” at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre

Bloody, gory, horror films certainly have been around for quite a while and have been successful in creating a cult audience that supports the genre. Transforming one of these for the stage would certainly be an audacious task. To go one step further, choose the horrific tale of Macbeth penned by William Shakespeare and take some extreme liberties to create…

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Broadway Review: “Bernhardt/Hamlet” at Roundabout Theatre Company’s American Airlines Theatre

Sarah Bernhardt (an intense and commanding Janet McTeer) struggles with her decision to play Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” not because of self-doubt or weakness, but because she is not sure William Shakespeare wrote the tragedy all that well or fully understood the play’s protagonist. During rehearsals for the play and for Bernhardt’s groundbreaking role as Hamlet, she argues with her cast about…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Skintight” at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre

Thrown under the bus by her ex-husband Greg, a carping, selfish, completely self-centered Jodi Isaac (Idina Menzel) takes the red-eye from Los Angeles to New York City to “celebrate” her a self-assured father Elliot Isaac’s (Jack Wetherall) birthday. However, the real reason for her visit is that she “just, like couldn’t physically be in LA knowing” Greg and his new…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Amy and the Orphans” at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre

In the new play “Amy and the Orphans,” disability, dysfunction, and delusion are the contentious components that drive an anomalous family unit to a place they were not expecting to visit called reality. Presented by Roundabout Theater Company at The Laura Pels Theatre, the play is carefully and skillfully penned by Lindsey Ferrentino, is inspired by her own family members,…

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Broadway Review: “John Lithgow: Stories by Heart” at Roundabout Theatre Company at American Airlines Theatre

February 19, 2018 | Broadway, mother night > | "Favoritres of Children", "Haircut", "John Lithgow: Stories by Heart", "Teller of Tales", "Uncle Fred Flits By", American Airlines Theatre, Daniel Sullivan, Jess Goldstein, Joan Marcus, John Lee Beatty, John Lithgow, Kenneth Posner, P. G. Wodehouse, Peter Fitzgerald, Ring Lardner, Roundabout Theatre Company

Currently in its Broadway debut, John Lithgow’s “Stories By Heart” first took shape in 2008 at Lincoln Center Theater in a special repertory presentation directed by Jack O’Brien. Then, Mr. Lithgow told one story on each of two nights. Since then he has evolved the play in theaters around the country, produced by Staci Levine, on evenings away from his…

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News: Universal Theatrical Group Acquires Rights to Develop Stage Musical Based on the Life Story and Music of The Bee Gees: Barry Gibb to Executive Produce

November 9, 2017 | News, the lion king > | Barry Gibb, bee gees, Capitol Records, DreamWorks, DreamWorks Theatricals, Maurice Gibb, music, musical, Robin Gibb, Roundabout Theatre Company, theatre, Universal Music Group, universal pictures, Yvonne Gibb

Universal Theatrical Group (UTG), Universal Pictures’ live theatre division, announced that it has reached an agreement with Barry Gibb, Yvonne Gibb, and the Estate of Robin Gibb to develop a biographical stage musical based on the life story and music reached an agreement with Barry Gibb, Yvonne Gibb, and the Estate of Robin Gibb to develop a biographical stage musical…

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