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Horsing Around at the Hamptons Premiere of Equus

“Chicken nori cigarette?” offered a young blonde, holding a square silver cigarette box poised open on a small tray. Long slender chicken nori rolls artfully splayed out of the case.

Gimmicky hors d’oeuvres aside, the benefactors’ dinner celebrating the premiere of Equus at East Hampton’s Guild Hall was a grown-up affair held at Guild Read More

Hi-Yo, Equus! Daniel Radcliffe Rides Into Town

It’s good to have Peter Shaffer back on Broadway with Equus. Whatever the flaws of the watershed 1973 psychodrama that became one of his biggest international successes, Mr. Shaffer reminds us of the lifeblood that’s being drained from the theater: the power of articulate ideas and ritual.

Like all his major Read More

Casting Completed For Daniel Radcliffe’s Equus

Olivier Award winner Richard Griffiths and stage and screen veteran Kate Mulgrew will get to see Daniel Radcliffe naked. A lot. They’ll all be rehearsing together for the Broadway revival of Equus. Actually, Mr. Griffiths and Mr. Radcliffe have been pretty intimate before, since they all worked together on the London Equus revival in Read More

Equus Set For Sept. 5 Previews

Shine the Harry Potter signal! Equus, the hit London play starring rapidly budding heartthrob (maybe?) Daniel Radcliffe, will begin previews Sept. 5 at the Broadhurst Theatre, replacing the acclaimed revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Playbill reports that opening night is scheduled for Sept. 25, and the production will play a 22-week Read More