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Johnny Baseball
feature Robert Reale and Richard Dresser’s musical about the 86-year “curse” that kept the Boston Red Sox from winning a World Series Championship is a work that “even a Yankee could love,” said Frank Rizzo in Variety.
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Low Down Dirty Blues
feature Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman’s new jukebox musical “seamlessly traces the full emotional arc of the blues,” said Hedy Weiss in the Chicago Sun-Times.
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The Tony Awards: The year the Oscars met the Grammys
feature The ceremony itself made clear that, these days, Broadway imports its musical sensibility as well as its stars, said David Hinckley in the New York Daily News.
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Exhibit of the week: Luc Tuymans
feature The Belgian artist’s first American survey brings together more than 70 works from the 1980s to the present.
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Exhibit of the week: Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield
feature The retrospective at UCLA’s Hammer Museum brings together the work of a watercolorist who was a “hot young painter” in the 1930s, but who found himself out of sync with the times in his later years.
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Stage: The Royal Family
feature George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber’s 1927 spoof of Lionel, John, Ethel, and the rest of the Barrymore clan retains its original charm.
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Stage: American Idiot
feature American Idiot is adapted from Green Day's multiplatinum 2004 album.
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Stage: The Pride of Parnell Street
feature The Pride of Parnell Street is a wistful tale of a marriage torn apart by “domestic violence, drug addiction, and AIDS,” said Frank Scheck in the New York Post.&
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Theater: Eclipsed
feature Before writing Eclipsed, Danai Gurira spent time in Liberia gathering information from interviews with former kept women and female soldiers.
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Opera: Tosca
feature The Metropolitan Opera broke with tradition and replaced the much beloved Zeffirelli version of Tosca with a new one by Swiss director Luc Bondy.
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Theater: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
feature The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity is the only play I’ve ever seen that could appeal to wrestling fans and theatergoers alike, said Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune.
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Theater: Hamlet
feature In director Michael Grandage’s modern-dress production, Jude Law is Hamlet and his “To be or not to be …” soliloquy is delivered beneath a light snowfall.
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Exhibit of the week: Warhol
feature The Milwaukee Art Museum’s new exhibition introduces the paintings of Andy Warhol's later years, works that were rarely shown during his lifetime.
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A Parallelogram
feature In one of Bruce Norris' funnier and more compassionate plays, a young woman meets an older, time-traveling version of herself who tells her about her not-so-good future.
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