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Broadway goes for grown-ups

Quick ReadMany of this season's bumper crop of shows are aimed at adults

Sienna Miller, right, stars opposite Johnny Lee Miller

Photo credit: Photo by Joan Marcus | Sienna Miller, right, stars opposite Johnny Lee Miller in Roundabout Theatre Company's "After Miss Julie."

Linda Winer

Newsday theater critic and arts columnist Linda Winer. Linda Winer

Winer is chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday,

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It is absurdly early to take the temperature of the fall season on Broadway. Logic and the calendar say no, no, no. The facts, however, demand another story altogether.

I can't remember a year that began this fast off the starting line. The commercial theater - much like the school year - tends to show up for attendance with rehearsals and previews in September and October. But things don't...

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