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...less frequently after that. She played roles supporting Jodie Foster (Nell), Lindsay Lohan (The Parent Trap) and Jennifer Lopez (Maid in Manhattan), and appeared with a whole parliament of female stars, including her mother, in the 2007 Evening. But the stage was Richardson's place to shine. In David Leveaux's sturdy revival of Anna Christie, she jettisoned Garbo's singsong Swedish inflections for a flat Minnesota accent. More helpfully, she made Anna a fighter, battered on the wheel of men's lust but still standing defiantly tall...
...that Broadway's newest Tevye, Alfred Molina (painter Diego Rivera in the movie Frida), is of Spanish-Italian heritage. And most of his daughters (and his wife Golde, played by Randy Graff) look like any other Broadway babies on the stage of the mammoth Minskoff Theatre. British director David Leveaux, moreover, has removed or toned down much of the shtetl shtick that has become identified with the show, the sort of thing that has kept Hadassah theater groups happy for decades. But that's no reason to dismiss a striking Broadway revival that manages to shake off the cobwebs...
...characters than Tradition?); most of Jerome Robbins' original choreography; and Joseph Stein's solid book (based on Sholom Aleichem stories) about a Jewish milkman and his marriageable daughters in the Russian village of Anatevka, in the days before they are uprooted and forced to migrate to America. But Leveaux has ditched the old-fashioned scene changes and set the show on an open stage, with bare trees silhouetted against a translucent blue and orange backdrop. He got Bock and Harnick to write a new song in Act II, Topsy-Turvy, for Yente the Matchmaker (played by Nancy Opel, who stepped...
...their own lives. The nice thing about The Real Thing is that Stoppard's penchant for trickery doesn't register as mere virtuosity but is integral to his probing exploration of betrayal and trust among married couples. Stephen Dillane heads a flawless, starless cast that has brought over David Leveaux's sharp production from London's Donmar Warehouse, and it's a winner...
Sophocles' Electra is no Hamlet. She doesn't agonize over whether to avenge the murder of her father Agamemnon by killing her mother Clytemnestra. She just does it (or rather, has her brother Orestes do it). Leveaux, who has brought his crisp staging of the tragedy from London to Broadway, says he was thinking of events in Bosnia: Can the cycle of vengeance ever end? Yet he resists the urge to add modern complexities to this fiercely singleminded play. Enough to watch the talented Zoe Wanamaker as a very human, almost waifish Electra, buried in a gigantic overcoat, like...