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By Rex Reed 10/12/11 9:55am

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Langella.

Man Up: Roundabout Delivers on Rattigan’s Great Depression Drama

Traditional, expertly written plays about important issues, with real people saying real things to each other on skillfully designed sets that evoke total naturalistic consistency, are in great demand and short supply. It is therefore a thrill to spread the welcome mat for Man and Boy, the 1963 play about corruption in the world of business and finance, by the great Terence Rattigan. To celebrate the centennial year of a writer who was, along with his contemporary Noel Coward, renowned for emotional subtext and elegance of syntax, the Roundabout has graced us with a splendid revival of one of his lesser but bolder plays, briskly directed by Maria Aitken, with a blazing centerpiece performance by Frank Langella that simmers with fury and rage. Read More

By Brionna Jimerson 7/08/11 5:20pm

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Members of Baby It's You cast

Broadway in Bryant Park: Dancin’ In The Heat

Bryant Park is not unaccustomed to crowds of families with lunch coolers in tow, corporate types wolfing down sandwiches on their lunch breaks, and high schoolers with skateboards and a curb to grind. But each Thursday  at noon until August 11, some of Broadway’s most widely celebrated (and Tony nominated) productions will call the park Read More

By Emily Witt 7/01/11 8:56am

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The plot.

Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon Writing 826 Valencia Musical

Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon are working on a musical about McSweeney’s non-profit 826 Valencia’s Superhero Supply Store in Park Slope. It’s true, Ms. Waldman told us! It will be called The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company. Michael Mayer, of American Idiot and Spring Awakening will direct; Peter Lerman, a young up-and-coming musical talent, will compose; Read More

By Jesse Oxfeld 5/03/11 11:17pm

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Theater Review: ‘A Normal Heart’ Is Hearbreaking; ‘Baby, It’s You’—Not Me

The thing is, Larry Kramer–the writer, AIDS activist, playwright and self-promoter–was right. About everything.

Or, at least, Ned Weeks–Mr. Kramer’s alter-ego Cassandra character in The Normal Heart, his furious polemical play about the early years of the AIDS crisis, now playing in a spectacular and spectacularly moving revival at the Golden Theatre–is right.

Ned, alone Read More