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 Review Roundup: NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812
May 17, 2013
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 Review Roundup: THE TEMPEST at Shakespeare's Globe
May 3, 2013
Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this perfidious brother and his confederates on the island, his long contemplated revenge at last seems within reach.
 Review Roundup: West End's MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
May 2, 2013
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 Review Roundup: RSC's AS YOU LIKE IT
April 29, 2013
The Royal Shakespeare Company's AS YOU LIKE IT opened at Stratford's Royal Shakespeare Theatre on 24 April 2013. Featuring music from the English folk musician Laura Marling, and directed by Maria Aberg, the play follows Rosalind and Orlando, who are banished by the French court and flee to the Forest of Arden; finding romance, mischief and anarchy. As You Like It runs in rep until 28 September 2013.
 Review Roundup: Bette Midler in I'LL EAT YOU LAST- All the Reviews!
April 24, 2013
Bette Midler stars in Tony Award winner John Logan's new play, I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, which opens tonight at the Booth Theatre. Appearing on Broadway for the first time in 30 years, Tony and Grammy Award-winning superstar Bette Midler plays the legendary Hollywood agent Sue Mengers (1932-2011) in the new, one-character play.
 Review Roundup: THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
April 23, 2013
The Broadway revival of Horton Foote's beloved classic, The Trip to Bountiful, opens tonight, April 23, at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124 W 43rd St). Directed by Michael Wilson, the cast features Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award-winning actress Cicely Tyson, Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding, Jr, Emmy Award nominee and recording star Vanessa Williams, and Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad. Let's see what the critics had to say...
 Review Roundup: THE TESTAMENT OF MARY Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
April 22, 2013
Award-winning stage and screen actress Fiona Shaw returns to Broadway tonight, April 22, for the opening of The Testament of Mary, by the acclaimed author Colm Toibin, directed by Deborah Warner. The production will run for a twelve-week limited engagement through Sunday, June 16, at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Let's see what the critics had to say...
 Review Roundup: Broadway-Bound BIG FISH Starring Norbert Leo Butz and Kate Baldwin
April 22, 2013
BIG FISH, a new musical based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, opened in Chicago on April 19 for its pre-Broadway world premiere in a limited 5-week engagement through May 5, 2013.
 Review Roundup: MACBETH Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
April 21, 2013
Broadway's powerful new production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, starring Tony and Olivier Award winner and two-time Emmy Award nominee Alan Cumming (Cabaret, 'The Good Wife'), opens on Broadway tonight, April 21, 2013. Let's see what the critics had to say...
 Review Roundup: JEKYLL & HYDE Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
April 18, 2013
The four-time Tony nominated musical sensation JEKYLL & HYDE will open its Broadway engagement tonight, April 18, featuring Tony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis alongside Grammy Award nominee and R&B superstar Deborah Cox. Let's see what the critics had to say...
 Review Roundup: ORPHANS Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
April 18, 2013
The Broadway production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge and directed by Daniel Sullivan, opens tonight, April 18, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street). Let's see what the critics had to say...
 Review Roundup: THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES Opens at MTC - All the Reviews!
April 17, 2013
Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere production of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties opens tonight, April 17, at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Let's see what the critics had to say...
 Review Roundup: Howard Davies' CHILDREN OF THE SUN at the National Theatre
April 17, 2013
Howard Davies' Children of the Sun, at the National Theatre (following Philistines, The White Guard and The Cherry Orchard), opened to press in the Lyttelton last night and runs through 14 July 2013.
 Review Roundup: THE BIG KNIFE Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
April 16, 2013
Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of The Big Knife, by Clifford Odets, opens tonight, April 16, at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd Street). This will be a limited engagement through June 2, 2013. Let's see what the critics had to say...
 Review Roundup: THE RASCALS: ONCE UPON A DREAM Opens on Broadway
April 16, 2013
THE RASCALS: ONCE UPON A DREAM will premiere on Broadway tonight, April 16th, running this spring for 15 performances only at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 West 46th Street). Let's see what the critics had to say...
 Review Roundup: THE NANCE Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
April 15, 2013
The Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street) presents Douglas Carter Beane's new play The Nance directed by Jack O'Brien, opening tonight, April 15. This production features Jenni Barber, Andrea Burns, Cady Huffman, Mylinda Hull, Nathan Lane, Geoffrey Allen Murphy, Jonny Orsini and Lewis J. Stadlen.
 Review Roundup: MOTOWN Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
April 14, 2013
MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL opens tonight, April 14, 2013, at Broadway's The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46 Street). Directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL features a book by Berry Gordy and music and lyrics from the legendary Motown catalogue. Let's see what the critics had to say...
 Review Roundup: MATILDA Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
April 11, 2013
MATILDA THE MUSICAL, produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers, opens tonight April 11, 2013 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street). The four girls sharing the title role are Sophia Gennusa -- who will play the lead for tonight's opening -- Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro, each of whom will be making her Broadway debut. Let's see what the critics had to say...
 Review Roundup: ONCE Opens in West End!
April 10, 2013
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 Review Roundup: KINKY BOOTS Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
April 4, 2013
Kinky Boots, from four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (book), Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper (Music & Lyrics), Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell (Director & Choreographer), began preview performances on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45th Street) on March 3, 2013 and opens tonight, April 4, 2013.
 Review Roundup: BEFORE THE PARTY at the Almeida Theatre
April 3, 2013
Matthew Dunster directs Rodney Ackland's Before The Party at The Almeida Theatre, which opened on 28 March 2013 and runs until 11 May 2013. Based on a short story by Somerset Maugham, Before The Party has designs by Anna Fleischle with lighting by Philip Gladwell and sound by Ian Dickinson. Dunster's production of Before The Party will be the first in over 25 years.
 Review Roundup: Second Stage's THE LAST FIVE YEARS
April 3, 2013
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 Review Roundup: LUCKY GUY Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
April 1, 2013
Two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks makes his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy, a new play written by three-time Academy Award nominee Nora Ephron and directed by two-time Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe. Lucky Guy opens tonight, April 1, at Broadhurst Theatre.
 Review Roundup: West End's BOOK OF MORMON
March 22, 2013
The Book of Mormon opened last night at the Prince of Wales Theatre to mixed reviews with ticket sales of 9 million.
 Review Roundup: HANDS ON A HARDBODY Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
March 21, 2013
The new American musical Hands on a Hardbody will open tonight, March 21, at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 West 47th Street). Let's see what the critics had to say...
 Review Roundup: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
March 20, 2013
Tony Award winning playwright Richard Greenberg's new play, Breakfast at Tiffany's opens at the Cort Theatre (138 W 48th Street) tonight, March 20, 2013. Directed by Sean Mathias, the stage adaption of Truman Capote's classic novella will star Emilia Clarke (HBO's 'Game of Thrones') in the iconic role of 'Holly Golightly,' Cory Michael Smith as 'Fred,' and George Wendt as 'Joe Bell.' Let's see what the critics had to say...
 Review Roundup: VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
March 14, 2013
Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike opens tonight, March 14, at Broadway's Golden Theatre, on the heels of its sold-out premiere at Lincoln Center. Directed by Nicholas Martin, the Broadway production features the entire original company, which includes Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, Genevieve Angelson, Shalita Grant, and Billy Magnussen. Let's see what the critics had to say...
 Review Roundup: Holland Taylor Opens in ANN on Broadway!
March 8, 2013
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 Review Roundup: THE AUDIENCE Starring Helen Mirren
March 6, 2013
The Audience began previewing at the Gielgud Theatre on 15 February 2013, with press night on 5 March 2013 and is booking to 15 June 2013. Designs are by Bob Crowley with lighting by Rick Fisher, sound by Paul Arditti, music by Paul Englishby and video by Ian William Galloway.
 Review Roundup: CINDERELLA Opens on Broadway - All the Reviews!
March 3, 2013
The celebrated musical RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella, originally written for television in 1957 by the legendary musical theatre duo Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, will open tonight, March 3, at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway at 53rd Street). Let's see what the critics had to say...
 Review Roundup: MTC's THE MADRID with Edie Falco, John Ellison Conlee & More
February 27, 2013
Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of The Madrid, the new play by Liz Flahive, directed by Leigh Silverman opened on Tuesday, February 26. The limited engagement has already been extended through Sunday, April 21.
 Review Roundup: West End's MACBETH Starring James McAvoy
February 25, 2013
James McAvoy plays Macbeth in a production by new West End theatre company Traf Transformed, headed by Jamie Lloyd. Macbeth opened Feb 9 and will run through April 27, 2013.
 Review Roundup: West End's A CHORUS LINE - All the Reviews!
February 20, 2013
A CHORUS LINE, starring John Partridge, Leigh Zimmerman and Scarlett Strallen, opened at the London Palladium February 19, 2013.
 Review Roundup: Ian McDiarmid in A LIFE OF GALILEO - All the Reviews!
February 15, 2013
Ian McDiarmid stars in Mark Ravenhill's new translation of Bertolt Brecht's A Life of Galileo, which opened at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon on January 31, 2013, and is running through March 30.
 Review Roundup: DEAR WORLD with Betty Buckley and Paul Nicholas
February 14, 2013
The British premiere of Jerry Herman's musical Dear World, starring Betty Buckley and Paul Nicholas and directed and choreographed by Gillian Lynne, opened 13 February and runs through 30 March 2013.
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