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EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS THIS SEASON!
From classic musical comedies to dysfunctional family dramas, we’ve got your tickets. No matter what you pick, you’ll be dazzled, provoked, and thoroughly entertained by the power and creativity on display this season. Reinvigorate your hearts and minds at any of these top Broadway picks...
Two Helpings of Pie from Broadway’s Fridge
The opportunity to see revivals of Gypsy and South Pacific side by side underscores the distance the American musical traveled in the 10 years between them.
The Shows Must Go On, but Not Until They Change Theaters
If Broadway critics said August and 39 Steps are moving experiences, they’d be right on the mark. |
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39 Steps, 2 Actors, Countless Roles
Will the thugs harm the old couple? Will the McGarrigles reveal the whereabouts of our hero and heroine? And how on earth will all four roles be played by just two actors?
From Sketch to Stage
A look at The 39 Steps with the show's set designer Peter McKintosh
Novel to Screen to Stage: Evolving Step by Step
In London the award-winning theatrical comedy is billed as John Buchan's The 39 Steps. But on Broadway, where the British import opened this month, it is called Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps.
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Coffee, Tea or Meat?
Hanging out with Kathryn Hahn, Mary McCormack and Gina Gershon, the three women who play flight attendants in the farcical play Boeing-Boeing.
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Broadway's Cookie, Un-Sugarcoated
Faith Prince is returning to Broadway in A Catered Affair, a risky show even by the standards of an insanely risky industry.
In Character
Faith Prince talks about performing in A Catered Affair and other Broadway musicals.
The Bachelor Uncle
Harvey Fierstein talks about what inspired him to write the book to A Catered Affair.
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Sing Out, Laura. It’s Your Turn.
Laura Benanti, who has played a sultry movie star with Antonio Banderas in “Nine” and a slinky singer in “Swing!,” is now a stripper in “Gypsy.”
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Dramatic Power Couple: Theater Is Their Castle
The director Rupert Goold and his wife, the actress Kate Fleetwood, are working together in the Broadway production of Macbeth.
Blood and Guts
Audio Slide Show: Patrick Stewart on Macbeth.
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Urban Eye: Passing Strange
The new musical (or perhaps opera, or perhaps rock show) Passing Strange opens at the Belasco Theater on Broadway. Melena Ryzik reports.
A Broadway Mother of Many Identities
For anyone who knows Eisa Davis, her life story is a sly wink at the ideas in Passing Strange about identity and art.
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The Stages of Bart Sher
How a director with a knack for experimental theater became the man behind two Tony Award-winning hits, three Metropolitan Opera productions and now the first Broadway revival of South Pacific.
Being Emile
Paulo Szot talks about playing the role of Emile de Becque in the revival of South Pacific.
You May See a Stranger
Paulo Szot is taking a leap of faith from the world of opera to the Broadway stage in the revival of South Pacific.
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Next on His Docket: A Supreme Challenge
For Laurence Fishburne, playing Thurgood Marshall on Broadway is a chance to educate people, himself included.
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