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Elaine Stritch Isn’t Leaving New York Quietly… And We Wouldn’t Want it Any Other Way!
Featuring: Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch Isn’t Leaving New York Quietly And we wouldn’t want it any other way If April hasn’t already been declared “Elaine Stritch Month” in New York, it should be. After seven decades in New York, Elaine Stritch, one of the last…
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The Grand Irrationality
Featuring: Bess Meyer, Gregory Marcel, James Donovan & Peter Elbling, Kirsten Kollender, Mina Badie
The first thing you notice when watching The Grand Irrationality, despite the Los Angeles location of The Lost Studio, is the very British setting of the play. That would be due to the fact that this world premiere comes from British Playwright…
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Smash: The Complete 1st Season on DVD
Featuring: Anjelica Huston, Brian D'Arcy James, Christian Borle, Debra Messing, Jack Davenport, Jaime Cepero, Katharine McPhee, Megan Hilty, Raza Jaffrey
*please note the actual release date for this set is Jan 8, 2013 A lot of new television shows come and go without so much as a single wave in pop culture being made; Smash, on the other hand was a whirlpool…
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The Fisherman’s Wife
Featuring: Gary Patent, Kevin Comartin & Kevin Riggin, Kim Chueh, Michael Hanson, Patrick Flanagan, Sarah McCarron
At a time when we can create almost anything we can imagine through the wonder of CGI, it’s nice every now and then to get back to the basics of storytelling. And what could be more basic than a Black Box Theatre…
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The Little Dog Laughed
The Little Dog Laughed premiered back in 2007, as written by Douglas Carter Beane who is perhaps best known for penning To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, and has been nominated for a Tony and GLAAD Media Award. Douglas Carter Beane knows…
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Donna / Madonna by John Paul Karliak
Featuring: John Paul Karliak
Donna/Madonna is a 70 minute one-act from Writer/Performer John Paul Karliak, as seen at the Lyric Theatre on July 24th without intermission. In his opening, Karliak explains how he entertained his blue-collar family with “living room theatre” growing up in the humdrum…
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The Caretaker
“He wasn’t even listening,” a lonely man says when he realizes another has secretly slipped out the door while he was talking. This could be read as a matter-of-fact statement, but when it is spoken – rather, shouted – by Jonathan Pryce…
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Leap of Faith
Featuring: Jessica Phillips, Kecia Lewis-Evans, Krystal Joy Brown, Leslie Odom Jr., Raul Esparza, Talon Ackerman
And on the seventh day, God made Raul Esparza. Unfortunately, even he cannot perform miracles, as proven by Leap of Faith, the latest film-to-musical adaptation to hit Broadway. With songs by Alan Menken (music) and Glenn Slater (lyrics) and a book by…
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Nice Work If You Can Get It
Featuring: Estelle Parsons, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Judy Kaye, Kelli O’Hara, Matthew Broderick, Michael McGrath, Stanley Wayne Mathis
One of the more amusing moments of Nice Work If You Can Get It occurs when Eileen Evergreen, a rich, spoiled woman played by Jennifer Laura Thompson is relaxing in her bathtub (for what she says is the fourth hour), singing, and…
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Don’t Dress for Dinner
“It’s all beige,” the woman next to me sighed when the curtain rose on the set of Don’t Dress for Dinner. Little did she know that John Lee Beatty’s set would be the least of her complaints regarding the Roundabout Theater Company’s…
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