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Theater cuts in Britain, and Kevin Spacey

March 8, 2013 2:33 PM By LINDA WINER linda.winer@newsday.com

Kevin Spacey and Haydn Gwynne in quot;Richard IIIquot;

Photo credit: Manuel Harlan | Kevin Spacey and Haydn Gwynne in "Richard III" at BAM in Brooklyn.

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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Off-Broadway's insanely productive March will soon crash into the annual April madness on Broadway, which ends with the cutoff for Tony eligibility on the 28th.

So it feels like a relief, almost, to take a break from the local turmoil, step back and take a longer look at the tensions grinding away at other places -- especially the ones that bring us such quality theater from London.

 

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