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Stage: Heroes
feature In French playwright Gérard Sibleyras’ tragicomedy, three World War I veterans discover the “very different sort of heroism” needed to face mortality.
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Stage: Winter’s tales
feature Seasonal stage productions across the country
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Stage: High Holidays
feature Alan Gross’ play is a coming of age story about a teenager and his dysfunctional family—a domineering father, a foul-mouthed mother, and a rebellious, Bob Dylan–loving older brother.
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Theater: Give It Up!
feature “Imagine an R-rated version of a Disney Channel musical, and you’re ready for the pep, pop, and wink-wink naughtiness that is Give It Up!” said Joe Leydon in Variety. &l
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Theater: The Pee-wee Herman Show
feature Paul Reubens has returned with his trademark bow-tie and a stage version of Pee-wee Herman.
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Theater: Hughie/Krapp’s Last Tape
feature Brian Dennehy has the leading roles in the Goodman Theatre's evocative double billing of Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie and Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape.
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Theater: A View From the Bridge
feature Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson make this revival of Arthur Miller’s 1955 drama “one of the finest evenings of Miller in memory,” said Peter Marks in The Washington Post.
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
feature This “knockout” version by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company is destined for Broadway.
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John Gabriel Borkman
feature Ibsen's timely play is about a disgraced banker who’s untroubled by the many lives destroyed by his financial misdeeds.
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La Traviata
feature German director Willy Decker's new production was surprisingly well-received by the Met's audience.
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The new Spider-Man: A menace to Broadway’s future?
feature Seven weeks into preview performances, the producers of Spider-Man have announced they will continue with previews for another nine weeks.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
feature Creator and star Mike Daisey talks about the shocking working conditions in the Chinese plant that produces Apple’s iPhones and iPads.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
feature The “uniformly brilliant cast” of this Canadian import from the Stratford Shakespeare Festival includes a gender-bending Lady Bracknell played by Brian Bedford.
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Masters of American Comics
feature Comics, finally gaining recognition as a true art, but still largely a mans world.
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