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Theater Review | 'Dividing the Estate': Inherit the Windfall

You probably have one in your family. And the odds are that he or she is making a lot of noise right now. I mean the kind of person who, when the going gets tough, is transformed from a respectable-looking grown-up into a greedy, caterwauling ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2008

Theater Review: Brothers in Flimflammery on a Continental Sojourn

It’s raining greenbacks in “Road Show,” the latest version of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s long-aborning, ever-evolving and eternally slender musical about curdled American dreams, which opened on Tuesday night at the Public Theater. Throughout ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2008

Theater Review | 'American Buffalo': A Junk Shop Breeding Best-Laid Plans

Ssssssssst. That whooshing noise coming from the Belasco Theater is the sound of the air being let out of David Mamet’s dialogue. Robert Falls’s deflated revival of Mr. Mamet’s “American Buffalo” which opened on Monday night with the mixed-nut ensemble ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2008

Theater Review | 'Waves': Six Lives Ebb and Flow, Interconnected and Alone

Life unfolds in a series of exquisite contradictions in “Waves,” a remarkable, genre-defying work from the National Theater of Great Britain that raises the bar for literary adaptations. The world that is so magically summoned in this improbable ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2008

Theater Review | Billy Elliot: In Hard Times, Born to Pirouette

Your inner dancer is calling. Its voice, sweet but tough and insistent, pulses in every molecule of the new Broadway musical “Billy Elliot,” demanding that you wake up sleeping fantasies of slipping on tap or ballet shoes and soaring across a stage. ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  14 Nov 2008

Theater Review: Those Who Traffic in Spin Can Get Caught in the Cycle

The projected images that flicker and fade like pale fireworks between scenes of “Farragut North” Beau Willimon’s predictable but enjoyable play about spinmeisters on the campaign trail are so immediately and overwhelmingly familiar that sensitive, ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2008

Theater Review | 'Mouth to Mouth': Help! Stranded on the Outer Fringes of Your Lives

Nobody really listens to anybody else in “Mouth to Mouth,” Kevin Elyot’s mordant and mournful play about the limits of friendship and family. But the solipsistic Londoners in this deftly acted production from the New Group, which opened on Thursday ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2008

Theater Review: Holy Man and Holier in a Battle for Power

A flash of gold gleams briefly, an unexpected burst of warmth among the chilly palette of gray, black and white that dominates Peter Brook’s severe production of “The Grand Inquisitor,” which opened Wednesday night at the New York Theater Workshop. ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2008

Theater Review: Singing a Song of the Lovestruck Life

Repressed whimsy, it seems, can build up and fester in a person, the way unexpressed rage or resentment does. The time comes when, to save your sanity, you just have to get it out of your system in one big, cleansing blast. From left, Emily Swallow, ...

From BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2008

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