Noel Coward’s 1941 comedy about a socialite writer who finds himself haunted by his vivacious (if annoying) dead wife—while his living wife first questions his sanity, then finds herself in competition with the ghost—has inspired a host of revivals and homages. Consider Robyn Hitchcock’s 1985 song “My Wife and My Dead Wife,” and the criminally […]
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ShawChicago goes out the way it came in, with The Doctor’s Dilemma
The company ends its run with the same play with which it first debuted in 1994.
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The breathtaking Next to Normal and seven more new stage shows
BoHo Theatre’s production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show is musical theater at its very finest.
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The touring Broadway hit Beautiful, Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, and 16 more new and notable shows
Beautiful, Fallen Angels, and 16 more new and notable shows, more holiday fare included.
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Ain’t Misbehavin’, Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy, and 11 more new reviews
Ain’t Misbehavin’, Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy, and 11 more new reviews
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Le Week-End: Here come the boomer cliches
In Le Week-End, Jim Broadbent stars as a former 60s radical awash in self-pity.
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“The Hitchcock 9” presents the silent-era works, loud and clear
The Music Box screens “The Hitchcock 9,” the master’s silent films, newly restored.
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Smartphones and Soirees: new performing art reviews
New performing arts reviews from Reader critics from the July 26, 2012 issue
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Up: Yours!
The new Pixar animation opens today. Also in this week’s issue, Sam Raimi’s “Drag Me to Hell,” the Oscar-winning “Departures,” and a Jonathan Rosenbaum review of the Noel Coward adaptation “Easy Virtue.”
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A Glorious Synergy
DESIGN FOR LIVING Apple Tree Theatre Company I like to put my nose right up to great paintings and study how the artists achieved their effects: a crude dab of white paint, for example, endows a human eye with intelligence; some roughly layered colors make an Impressionist landscape shimmer. There’s something incongruous about the fact […]