Newsies the Musical
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Inspired by a 1899 newsboy strike, Newsies has an “old-school sincerity that’s hard to resist,” said The New York Times. Though the musical flopped as a film, Harvey Fierstein’s revamped book helps make the stage edition “worth singing about.”
Somewhere
The Old Globe
San Diego
(619) 234-5623
“There’s a good play somewhere within Somewhere,” said Variety. Matthew Lopez’s work about a 1959 Puerto Rican family that embraces Broadway to escape reality could have worked as a tragedy of delusional thinking if the characters weren’t portrayed as helpless victims.
Honey Brown Eyes
The SF Playhouse
San Francisco
(415) 677-9596
Two kitchens provide a split view of the Bosnian War in Stefanie Zadravec’s powerful play, said the San Francisco Examiner. In one kitchen, a Serbian soldier takes a Muslim woman captive; in the other, an elderly Serb consoles a Bosnian deserter. Both stories reveal war’s “human costs.”
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If/Thenfeature Tony-winning Idina Menzel “looks and sounds sensational” in a role tailored to her talents.
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Rocky
feature It’s a wonder that this Rocky ever reaches the top of the steps.
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Love and Information
feature Leave it to Caryl Churchill to create a play that “so ingeniously mirrors our age of the splintered attention span.”
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The Bridges of Madison County
feature Jason Robert Brown’s “richly melodic” score is “one of Broadway’s best in the last decade.”
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Outside Mullingar
feature John Patrick Shanley’s “charmer of a play” isn’t for cynics.
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The Night Alive
feature Conor McPherson “has a singular gift for making the ordinary glow with an extra dimension.”
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No Man’s Land
feature The futility of all conversation has been, paradoxically, the subject of “some of the best dialogue ever written.”
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The Commons of Pensacola
feature Stage and screen actress Amanda Peet's playwriting debut is a “witty and affecting” domestic drama.