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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Review: Private Lives by David Finkle

Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross give splendidly sleek performances in this near-perfect production of Noel Coward's classic comedy.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Review: Burmese Days by David Finkle

George Orwell's early novel gets an earnest story-theater adaptation.

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Review: Dark Sisters by David Finkle

Composer Nico Muhly and librettist Stephen Karam's opera, centering on a Mormon community in the wake of a scandal, receives a moodily stunning production.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Review: King Lear by David Finkle

Sam Waterston gives a disappointing performance in the title role of James Macdonald's misguided production of Shakespeare's tragedy.

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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Review: Queen of the Mist by David Finkle

Mary Testa proves her greatness in Michael John LaChiusa's new musical about Mary Edson Taylor.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Review: A Charity Case by David Finkle

Wendy Beckett's well-acted drama concerns an adolescent girl torn between her birth mother and adoptive mother.

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Monday, October 31, 2011

Review: Say Goodnight Gracie by David Finkle

Joel Rooks stars in this welcome revival of Rupert Holmes' smoothly entertaining play about the lives of George Burns and Gracie Allen.

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Friday, October 28, 2011

Review: Siegfried by David Finkle

Jay Hunter Morris distinguishes himself in the title role of Richard Wagner's third installment of the Ring of the Nibelungen cycle.

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Review: Children by David Finkle

A.R. Gurney's rarely-seen play about an unhappy WASP family is too quiet to raise much of a theatrical ruckus.

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Monday, October 24, 2011

Review: A Splintered Soul by David Finkle

Alan Lester Brooks' thoughtful drama about the Holocaust is worth taking seriously.

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Friday, October 14, 2011

Review: Don Giovanni by David Finkle

Michael Grandage's new Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart's classic opera is mostly well-sung, but crudely directed.

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Review: The Mountaintop by David Finkle

Katori Hall's play about an encounter between Martin Luther King, Jr. and a hotel chambermaid on the night before his death boasts award-worthy performances by Samuel L. Jackson and Angela B…

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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Review: Any Given Monday by David Finkle

Bruce Graham's troubling play examines the pragmatics of morality.

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Monday, October 10, 2011

Review: Nightlands by David Finkle

Sylvan Oswald's pretentious drama centers on an interracial lesbian affair in the 1960s.

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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Review: Man and Boy by David Finkle

Frank Langella gives an astonishing performance as a corrupt financier in the Roundabout's fine production of Terrence Rattigan's highly effective 1963 melodrama.

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

First Nighter: Betty Buckley Goes for Men in a Big-Hearted Feinstein's at Loews Regency Way by David Finkle

As one of Broadway's absolute best singing actors, Buckley is used to having previews to work out what she's doing before tough-minded commentators descend. Unfortunately, that's not the cab…

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Monday, October 3, 2011

Review: NYMF 2011 Roundup #3 by David Finkle and Dan Bacalzo

Reports on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Man of Rock, and Madame X.

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Sunday, October 2, 2011

Review: NYMF 2011 Roundup #2 by Dan Bacalzo, David Finkle, and Andy Propst

Reports on Crazy, Just Like Me, The Big Bank, and Ghostlight.

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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Review: Lidless by David Finkle

Danielle Skrasstad gives a superb performance in this powerful if far-fetched drama about a woman who worked as an interrogator at Guantanamo.

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Review: Anna Bolena by David Finkle

Anna Nebtreko gives her utmost as the doomed queen in the Metropolitan Opera's handsome production of Donizetti's 1830 opera.

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Easy Reader: Ellen Sweets's Stirring It Up With Molly Ivins a Five-Star Feast by David Finkle

A woman who scoured stores and the Internet for every type of utensil, Molly was unflaggingly eager to gather friends around her not only to feed them but -- as the devoted Sweets emphasizes…

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Monday, September 19, 2011

First Nighter: The Great Barbara Carroll Even Greater at the Algonquin's Oak Room by David Finkle

In her mid-80s, Barbara Carroll's still doing what she does best and what few others even begin to do as well as. Nowadays she does it more regularly at the Oak Room, where management is wis…

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Review: The Invested by David Finkle

Sharyn Rothstein's deliciously mean, smartly plotted play set in the financial world benefits from the work of a fine cast.

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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

First Nighter: "Follies" 2011 a Smash Hit by David Finkle

In a theater-going era when anything with assumed marquee value is trussed up for consumer consumption, it's a treat to recall something that -- for the abundance of high-quality theater cra…

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Monday, September 12, 2011

Review: Sweet and Sad by David Finkle

Richard Nelson's new play is a cogent look at the nation's shared experience of life after 9/11.

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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Review: The Select (The Sun Also Rises) by David Finkle

Elevator Repair Service serves up an unconvincng adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's classic novel about American expatriates in 1920s Paris.

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Friday, September 9, 2011

Review: Barriers by David Finkle

Rehana Lew Mirza's heartfelt, but often clunky drama addresses prejudices that fomented with ugly repercussions in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist-attack.

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Review: Cymbeline by David Finkle

The Fiasco Theater's six-actor production of Shakespeare's crazy-quilt of a play is even pluckier and perkier than in its previous outing.

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Thursday, September 1, 2011

Easy Reader: Simon Garfield's Enthralling Just My Type, Christopher Johnson's Less Than Enthralling Microstyle by David Finkle

When it comes to typefaces, I've long been an Arial man. Still, I'm typing this on my aging Mac in Helvetica. Why? I've finished reading Simon Garfield's irresistible <em>Just My Ty…

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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Review: Emily Bergl: Kidding on the Square by David Finkle

This cabaret act at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room is a mixed bag of hits and misses.

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Review: FringeNYC 2011 Review Roundup #8 by Dan Bacalzo, Andy Buck, and David Finkle

Reports on You Only Shoot the Ones You Love, Bongani, and Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera.

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