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Clive Barnes (born May 13, 1927) in London, Oxford educated, chief Dance, Drama and Opera critic for the New York Post, is a colorful writer and broadcaster, whose career has been long and prolific.

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BROADWAY

"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize winner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping and funny as ever. Music Box Theatre, 239 W. 45th St.; 212 ...

From CLIVE BARNES, UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE, New York Post,  2 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Estelle Parsons,  Patrick Wilson,  John Lithgow,  Dianne Wiest,  Katie Holmes

'FLAMES' HOT, 'FLING' NOT

AMERICAN Ballet Theatre's program Tuesday night mixed a sensation with a mild disappointment. The sensation was the first appearance in a major role of the company's new, 21-year-old Russian virtuoso, Daniil Simkin. The disappointment? The revival of ...

From CLIVE BARNES, New York Post,  31 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Twyla Tharp,  Sarah Lane,  Julio Bocca

SPEED YOUR WAY TO REVIVAL OF MAMET'S 'PLOW'

WHEN Hollywood meets Broadway, sparks fly and Tinseltown's incinerated - especially if the flamethrower is David Mamet. So it is with "Speed-the-Plow." Now, 20 years after its premiere - in which Madonna took much of the initial limelight - the ...

From CLIVE BARNES, New York Post,  24 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Bobby Gould,  Madonna,  David Mamet,  Jeremy Piven,  Raul Esparza

JUST WHAT DOC ORDERED

FAUSTIAN bargains have al ways fascinated opera com posers. And it is a whole nation's Faustian bargain - the creation of the atomic bomb - that provides the motif and moral shading for "Doctor Atomic," John Adams' terrific new opera that had its New ...

From CLIVE BARNES, New York Post,  20 Oct 2008
Related Topics: John Adams,  Peter Sellars,  John Donne,  Philip Glass,  Edward Teller

NOT MUCH TO SHOUT ABOUT

THERE'S an awful lot of shouting these days at the Schoenfeld Theatre, where Arthur Miller's early melodrama "All My Sons" opened last night in a powerfully acted revival. A starry cast has been assembled to yell their lungs out, including the ...

From CLIVE BARNES, New York Post,  17 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Katie Holmes,  Arthur Miller,  John Lithgow,  Tom Cruise,  Dianne Wiest

DULL DIRECTION, DOWDY SET AND NO JACK BENNY

WENDING my way through impenetrable Eighth Ave nue traffic the other day, I couldn't think of anything worse than missing the first 10 minutes of "To Be or Not To Be." But soon after getting to my seat (and, later, upon reading Nick Whitby's script ...

From CLIVE BARNES, New York Post,  15 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Ernst Lubitsch,  Jack Benny,  Carole Lombard,  David Rasche

'ZORRO' MAKING ITS MARK

LONDON - One of the pleasures for New York theater buffs abroad is in guessing whether this or that West End production will make it to Broadway. So far, the buzz here is building around the musicals "Zorro" and "Marguerite" and one semi-musical, ...

From CLIVE BARNES, New York Post,  10 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Noel Coward,  Antonio Banderas,  Tyrone Power,  George Hamilton,  Ruthie Henshall

GLIDING WITH A SNORT BEYOND TIME'S BORDER

KRISTIN Scott Thomas is an actor who doesn't act. Rather, she moves into a character, breathing the same air as a human reality. It's a style heaven-sent for the plays and people of Anton Chekhov, as she's now demonstrating as Arkadina, the ...

From CLIVE BARNES, New York Post,  3 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Scott Thomas,  Anton Chekhov,  Christopher Hampton,  Mackenzie Crook

GIDDYUP!

PETER Shaffer's "Equus" is a mystery play of sorts, but it's less a whodunit than a whywasitdun. The story of a disturbed young man who steals into a stable one night and blinds six horses - and the child psychiatrist who tries to find out why - ...

From CLIVE BARNES, New York Post,  26 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Harry Potter,  Richard Burton,  Anthony Hopkins,  Peter Firth,  Daniel Radcliffe

IT SHOULD BE FAR, FAR BETTER

IT was the worst of times . . . and the worst of times. Who knew how eagerly I'd await Sydney Carton's closing words, "It's a far, far better thing that I do . . . " Actually, this Carton - a sensational James Barbour - didn't put a foot wrong all ...

From CLIVE BARNES, New York Post,  19 Sep 2008

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