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'Phantom of the Opera' at the Academy of Music
Reimagining Phantom
A new production of The Phantom of the Opera, designed to be taken on the road, has been bankrolled by the wealthy man who mounted the original version a quarter-century ago.
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‘Don Juan’ comes Home from Iraq' at the Wilma (2nd review)
War and other atrocities
Paula Vogel’s Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq is not so much a drama as an unrelievedly angry anti-war harangue.
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‘Rocky’ to music, on Broadway
He’s ba-a-ack
Yo! Rocky’s back, and his musical adaptation is a knockout, thanks to a director with a dynamic sense of theater space and its endless possibilities.
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'Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq' at the Wilma (1st review)
A marine in freefall
A gripping play about veterans of the Iraq war is daring and frightening in its world premiere.
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Durang’s ‘Vanya and Sonia’ by PTC
Six characters in search of a catalyst
Christopher Durang’s witty if lightweight comedy Vanya and Sonia poses a puckish literary question: If Chekhov’s characters were given a second chance to pursue the road less taken, where would they go?
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‘A Doll’s House’ in Brooklyn
The Scream comes to life
The resemblance between Munch’s terrified figure in The Scream and Hattie Morahan as Ibsen’s tortured protagonist, Nora, is even scarier than the lot of modern women.
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Lantern’s ‘Julius Caesar’ (2nd review)
The man who made ‘dictator’ a dirty word
Charles McMahon chose to set Julius Caesar in feudal Japan, a period contemporaneous with Shakespeare’s England, and, in McMahon’s view, similarly dominated by an aristocratic ethos of military prowess and honor. The analogy goes only so far, but the verse is as resonant as ever.
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'All the Way’: LBJ on Broadway
Utterly charming, utterly ruthless
Robert Schenkkan’s stage adaptation of Lyndon Johnson’s first year in office is a hugely ambitious work about a hugely overwhelming politician. But it offers only brief interior glimpses of the man behind the Texas-sized swagger.
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The Lantern Theater’s Japanese-‘influenced’ staging of 'Julius Caesar'
At last, lend your ears to Charles McMahon
The Philadelphia theater community has been abuzz with reactions to the Lantern Theater's recent production of Julius Caesar, which is set in feudal Japan but features no Japanese actors. Director Charles McMahon has remained silent — until now.
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New City Stage's 'Hinckley'
The mind of a would-be assassin
A theatrical tour-de-force, Hinckley is a classic example of how much can be done with nothing more than actors on a stage.
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