Linda Winer
Winer is chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday, which she joined in 1987.
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Linda Winer 5/17/13 'Here Lies Love' & more interactive musicals
Ever since I read "Brave New World" in high school, I've been on a wary ... Read more »
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Theater 5/10/13 'Old-Fashioned Prostitutes': Haunting
There is always something strangely comforting about the disturbing strangeness of Richard Foreman's hallucinatory collages. ... Read more »
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Linda Winer 5/10/13 Ageless actresses: They're getting better
It is hardly a controversy for the ages. It is, however, part of a satisfying ... Read more »
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Theater 5/10/13 'On Your Toes': Revival isn't quite
"On Your Toes" was a Broadway musical milestone in 1936, when, for the first time, ... Read more »
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Theater 5/8/13 'Bunty Berman Presents': Bollywood spoof
If you close your eyes, "Bunty Berman Presents..." might be one of Hollywood's lesser demi-classic ... Read more »
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News 5/7/13 'Vanya and Sonia' takes drama critics' award
"Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," Christopher Durang's comic mashup of Chekhov themes and ... Read more »
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Theater 5/6/13 'Nikolai and the Others': Ambitious, pretentious
When theater characters pontificate about (capital-M) Making (capital-A) Art, it is hard not to listen ... Read more »
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Linda Winer 5/3/13 Ayad Akhtar's amazing 'Disgraced'
"Disgraced," the best play I saw last year, has won the Pulitzer Prize. You are ... Read more »
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Theater 4/30/13 Cyndi Lauper-scored 'Kinky Boots' leads Tony noms
The Cyndi Lauper-scored "Kinky Boots" earns 13 Tony Award nods, British import "Matilda" garners 12. ... Read more »
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Linda Winer 4/26/13 Broadway musicals stick to the safe route
So much for Broadway's gallop toward cutting-edge musicals and boundary-pushing content. The season, which officially ... Read more »
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Theater 4/25/13 'Pippin:' Circus-y show diverts
After an up-and-down season, Broadway officially ended Thursday on a high. ... Read more »
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Theater 4/23/13 'The Trip to Bountiful': Tyson is radiant
Sentimental journeys don't come much more bittersweet than "The Trip to Bountiful," the wistful Horton ... Read more »
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Theater 4/23/13 'I'll Eat You Last:' Bette Midler is back
How much fun is it to have Bette Midler curled up barefoot on a sofa ... Read more »
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Theater 4/22/13 'Testament of Mary:' Shaw shines
Fiona Shaw has haunted T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" in an abandoned theater on 42nd ... Read more »
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Theater 4/21/13 'Macbeth:' One-man Cumming triumph
Alan Cumming has played a wild variety of outrageous characters since the Scottish-born actor made ... Read more »
