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'A New Brain' at Rude Guerrilla Theater Company
Heart and music infuse "A New Brain" in the shrewdly spare, gorgeously sung revival at Rude Guerrilla Theater Company. William Finn and James Lapine's 1998 tuner based on composer-lyricist Finn's battle with a brain tumor remains delightfully off-kilter...Tags: William Shakespeare, Music Industry, Rugby League, Hillary Clinton, Music
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A second helping of 'Treasure'
Tribune Newspapers'National Treasure: Book of Secrets': If the notion of a fortune-hunting, history-obsessed action hero didn't make you giddy in 2004, then chances are that last year's sequel to "National Treasure" won't perk you up much. "National Treasure: Book of...Tags: Walt Disney, Nicolas Cage, Jon Turteltaub
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Review: 'A Catered Affair,' by Harvey Fierstein
linda.winer@newsday.comHow bold to make a Broadway musical on such restrained material as "A Catered Affair." How sad that the results are so glum. Despite the dedication of a fine cast, including Faith Prince, Tom Wopat and author Harvey Fierstein, this is a colorless...Tags: Manhattan, Ernest Borgnine, Broadway, Alfred Hitchcock, Theater
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Just a little off the top?
The demon barber of Fleet Street and his neighbor accomplice take bloody revenge on 19th Century London's upper crust—one customer at a time. "Sweeney Todd" is downtown at the Cadillac Palace Theatre for two weeks. This is the touring version and...Tags: Music Theater, Theater, Palace Theater
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Competitors no match for 'South Pacific's' visual sweep
Tribune criticNEW YORK—The harmonic Seabees warbling "There is Nothing Like a Dame" at the start of Bart Sher's Lincoln Center revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" include whites and African-Americans. Nothing unusual there. It took decades, but...Tags: Mel Brooks, Broadway, Theater, Oklahoma, John Waters
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Hottest ticket
Sweeney Todd: Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd" is a transcendent score precisely because of its restless heart: The most impossibly gorgeous and romantic melodies are forever trying and failing to break out of all the muck of the world. To see John...Tags: Music Theater, Music, Theater, Palace Theater
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This week
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Not a Game for Boys: Simon Block's new British comedy probes the dog-eat-dog world of table tennis. No Ping-Pong here. Through June 1 by A Red Orchid Theater, 1531 N. Wells St.; 312-943-8722 and redorchidtheatre.org.
Macbeth: The long-lived...Tags: Music Theater, Table Tennis, Theater, Northern Illinois University, Palace Theater
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3 ways to approach a killer tale
For at least a generation now, it's not uncommon to hear the assertion, "I hate musicals." One singular show serves as a fail-safe remedy to that misguided notion: Show them "Sweeney Todd."
"When those people who say 'I don't like musicals' come to see...Tags: Angela Lansbury, Music Industry, Broadway, Tim Burton, Crimes
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Not an 'Affair' to Remember
Based on a 1956 film with Bette Davis and Ernst Borgnine, "A Catered Affair" centers on an Irish-American Bronx family that must decide whether to spend its savings on a new family business or to launch their only daughter's marriage with an expensive,...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Harvey Fierstein, Music, Theater, Minority Groups
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'Catered Affair' brings post-war life to Broadway
Tribune criticThe new Broadway musical "A Catered Affair" is another cinematic adaptation set in the 1950s, but one in which everyone is too terminally depressed to cry. Based on the 1956 Richard Brooks movie "The Catered Affair" (penned by the formidable duo of...Tags: Music Theater, Harvey Fierstein, New York, Theater, Gore Vidal
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