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...assume your readers know or care what Encores! - the thrilling three-a-year concert series that has been exhuming old Broadway musicals at New York's City Center since...
...first time since she performed on the Loeb mainstage, Nair is returning to her theater roots. She plans to take Monsoon Wedding to Broadway, producing and directing the stage version...
...Prymate, the most hated play of the Broadway season, let's be charitable. An admittedly odd drama about a pair of scientific researchers fighting over a gorilla who has been taught to speak in sign language, it did just about everything it could to offend everyone (casting a black man, Andre DeShields, as the ape; staging an interspecies sex scene that ranks as one of the bad taste highlights of the new millennium). And, predictably, the critics hooted it out of town. But Mark Medoff?s play had some ideas, it packed a lot into its speedy 100 minutes...
...Tonys, meanwhile, can't pay tribute to the real Best Actress currently on Broadway - Laura Linney, in Sight Unseen, a Manhattan Theatre Club revival that arrived just a couple of weeks too late for Tony consideration. Who's doing their scheduling? Donald Margulies' 1992 play concerns a world-famous painter who pays a visit to an ex-girlfriend (Linney) now living in the English boondocks with her archeologist husband. Margulies' work (Dinner With Friends, Collected Stories) has always struck me as slick but rather pat. This play, however, has all sorts of intriguing tendrils, as relationships and backstory are unraveled...
...hope Broadway opens its arms to more of the serious but audience-pleasing drama playing just outside its doors. Exhibit A this spring is Intimate Apparel, a Roundabout Theater production that has been winning steady accolades (including the New York Drama Critics? award for Best Play) since opening off Broadway in April. Set in New York City at the turn of the century, Lynn Nottage?s drama tells the story of a black seamstress (Viola Davis) who makes a living sewing fancy lingerie for rich society women. While patiently saving her money to open her own shop, she strikes...