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Anything Goes at Shakespeare in the Park!

I feel that I must reluctantly correct a serious error Oskar Eustis keeps making about his own theater. The artistic
By John Heilpern

Should a Fuss Be Made Over Colorblind Casting?

“I was surprised—shocked, even—by the letter to The Times last Sunday that vigorously protested Phylicia Rashad being cast in the
By John Heilpern

Tony S. at the Tonys

I would like to begin my highly influential tips for the winners of this season’s Tony Awards with heartfelt congratulations
By John Heilpern

My Plea to Directors: Quit Screwing With Beckett!

By John Heilpern

Will New York Fall to The Norman Conquests?

By John Heilpern

Move Over Lear! New Crazed King in Town

By John Heilpern

Forever Fonda: Jane Looks Perky as Dying Patient in 33 Variations

By John Heilpern

Runyon Ruined: Snake Eyes for Revival of Guys and Dolls

By John Heilpern

Uncle Vanya with Waterworks; Will Ferrell as Doofus in Chief

By John Heilpern

Mary-Louise’s Bare Bum Had Me Hedda-ing for the Exits!

By John Heilpern

Gypsy Waves Goodbye; Becky Shaw Loses Focus; and The Cripple of Inishmaan Stands Tall

By John Heilpern

Harold Pinter Enters the Silence Of the Long Pause

By John Heilpern

Only on Broadway: While the Economy Tanks, Ticket Prices Rise!

By John Heilpern

Dreaming of a Yiddish Christmas, with Sugarplums and a Klezmer Soundtrack

By John Heilpern

America’s Chekhov Still Juicy; Sondheim’s Roadshow Blows a Flat

By John Heilpern

Hurray for Hieronymus! Martha Clarke Re-imagines His Magical Hell

By John Heilpern

Billy Elliot Taps a Rich Vein of Triumphant British Defeatism

By John Heilpern

Techno-Wizard Lepage’s JumboTron Faust

By John Heilpern

Brook’s Radical Simplicity Does Dostoyevsky Proud

By John Heilpern

When Did David Mamet Wake Up as Joe Six-Pack?

By John Heilpern

McBurney’s Ego Upstages Miller, Lithgow, Wiest—Even Katie Holmes

By John Heilpern

Beheaded in 1535, Soporific Saint Now Inadequately Revived

By John Heilpern

The Seagull Soars, Lofted by Sarsgaard, Scott Thomas

By John Heilpern

Hi-Yo, Equus! Daniel Radcliffe Rides Into Town

By John Heilpern
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