17 new plays set to revitalize Broadway

January 2, 2013 4:56 PM By LINDA WINER linda.winer@newsday.com

David Leonard as Miss Trunchbull in quot;Matilda.quot;

Photo credit: Handout | David Leonard as Miss Trunchbull in "Matilda."

Linda Winer

Winer is chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday,

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5. ATHOL FUGARD SEASON (closed) The Signature Theatre's three-play

Best plays of 2012 Star: Vanessa Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr. Show:

Celebrities on Broadway Tony Award-nominee Colman Domingo, left, as Zachariah, and

Plays we're watching

Not to be a downer at the start of a new year. But doesn't it seem a bit ominous that by the time the splendid revival of "Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" closes its limited run Feb. 24, there will be exactly two productions -- "Annie" and "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" -- left from the fall season?

To be fair, a couple of holiday shows, "A Christmas Story" and "Elf," shouldn't...

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