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Monday, April 28, 2025

Theater and Book Reviews: “Dead Outlaw” Is a Lively, New Broadway Musical; “Irishtown” Makes Fun of, but Is Also a Love Letter to, Irish Plays; and the Sincere “Theater Kid” Memoir Takes Us Into the Rooms Where Broadway History Happened

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Dead Outlaw (c) Matthew Murphy Broadway: Dead Outlaw  Longacre Theatre  When I heard the premise of the outrageously true story of Dead Out...
Friday, April 25, 2025

The Interested Bystander: Final 2024-25 Tony Award Nomination Predictions

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Maybe Happy Ending (c) Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman The Tony Nominations will be announced on Thursday, May 1. Between there and now, ...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Theater Reviews: The Tragedy of “Floyd Collins” Arrives on Broadway in a First-Class Production; “John Proctor is the Villain” Is an Exciting Distillation of “The Crucible”; and “All the World’s a Stage” Is an Effective Chamber Musical

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Floyd Collins (c) Joan Marcus Broadway: Floyd Collins  At Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont Theater One of the shining stars And...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Film Reviews: Enjoy Four Recent Heartwarming Indies: a Re-Imagined “The Wedding Banquet”; A Quirky Music Lover in “The Ballad of Wallis Island”; Arrested Development Men in “Sacramento”; and How Jonathan Groff Turns Out to Be “A Nice Indian Boy”

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The Wedding Banquet (c) Luke Cyprian, Bleecker Street Film: The Wedding Banquet  In Cinemas  I have always loved Ang Lee’s 1993 queer landm...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Broadway: Two Icons Are Celebrated in Broadway Musicals — Stephen Sondheim Rhapsodized by New and “Old Friends” and Betty “BOOP!” Unleashed Cleverly in 2025 New York City

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Sondheim's Old Friends (c) Matthew Murphy Broadway: Sondheim’s Old Friends  At the Samuel Friedman Theatre  The new musical revue, S...