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Thursday, January 12, 2017

Martha Swope, 88, Who Etched Dance and Theater History in Photographs, Dies by Sylviane Gold

Ms. Swope produced hundreds of thousands of images of performers in action, and by the time she retired, her studio contained more than a million images.

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Friday, August 12, 2016

Theater | Connecticut: Review: A Farewell Kiss, in Changing Times by Sylviane Gold

“Bye Bye Birdie” at Goodspeed Opera House takes audiences back to a “pretty nice place.”

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Sunday, July 31, 2016

Theater | Connecticut: Review: Locked Up in Pakistan, a Banker Bets for Freedom by Sylviane Gold

“The Invisible Hand” at the Westport Country Playhouse explores the tension between a banker, who is held hostage in a jail, and his captor.

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Sunday, July 10, 2016

Spotlight: Me and Barbra, and a Mall-Full of Goodies by Sylviane Gold

In the play “Buyer & Cellar” at Penguin Rep, an underemployed actor becomes caretaker of Barbra Streisand’s personal shopping center.

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Friday, June 10, 2016

Arts | Westchester: Review: In ‘How to Bury a Saint,’ Bocce, the Tarantella and Relationships by Sylviane Gold

The play at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls explores how traditions can forge connections or separation.

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Sunday, March 27, 2016

Arts | Connecticut: In ‘Sex With Strangers,’ Reconciling Lust With Literary Values by Sylviane Gold

The play by Laura Eason, at TheaterWorks in Hartford, is an examination of a modern odd-couple relationship.

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Saturday, March 5, 2016

Arts | Connecticut: Review: 2 Sisters Navigate 100 Years of Black History in ‘Having Our Say’ by Sylviane Gold

Emily Mann’s play, at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, offers a portrait of disparate personalities and a chronicle of the century they lived through.

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Sunday, February 7, 2016

Arts | Connecticut: On the Mound: Observant. At Bat: Ultra-Orthodox. by Sylviane Gold

At Playhouse Park in West Hartford, a staging of Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen” shows that things are not always as they seem.

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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Arts | Connecticut: Review: In ‘Buyer & Cellar,’ a Shopkeeper in Barbra Streisand’s Home by Sylviane Gold

At TheaterWorks in Hartford, Jonathan Tolins’s comedy imagines a job with the singer at her personal shopping mall.

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Sunday, November 22, 2015

Theater | Connecticut: Jiehae Park’s ‘Peerless’ to World Premiere at the Yale Repertory Theater by Sylviane Gold

Ms. Park’s darkly comic play relocates elements of “Macbeth” to an American high school in the Midwest during college admissions season. “Peerless” opens on Nov. 27.

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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Theater | Connecticut: Review: ‘Disgraced’ at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven by Sylviane Gold

At a dinner party, unintended slights, misunderstandings and out-and-out bigotry.

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Thursday, October 15, 2015

Theater | Connecticut: Review: Shattered Identities in Westport’s ‘Broken Glass’ by Sylviane Gold

An Arthur Miller play takes on a dark night in Europe, as experienced by a couple in Brooklyn.

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Theater | Connecticut: ‘Indecent’ Opens Yale Repertory Theater Season by Sylviane Gold

“Indecent,” the time-bending, genre-bending theater piece written by Paula Vogel, is being presented at the University Theater.

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Friday, August 21, 2015

Theater | Stony Point: Review: ‘Becoming Dr. Ruth’ in Stony Point Is a Meditation on Home by Sylviane Gold

In the one-woman play by Mark St. Germain, sex therapy may be the least interesting part of an amazing life.

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Sunday, August 2, 2015

Theater | Hartford: Review: ‘I’ll Eat You Last’ in Hartford Portrays Sue Mengers by Sylviane Gold

A one-woman play about an agent for clients including Barbra Streisand and Gene Hackman who coddled, idolized and bullied is at TheaterWorks through Aug. 23.

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Sunday, June 14, 2015

Theater Review | Connecticut: Review: ‘Good People,’ in Hartford, Deals With Characters in, and From, Southie by Sylviane Gold

The playwright David Lindsay-Abaire drew from the Boston neighborhood he came from for his Tony Award-winning work, being staged at TheaterWorks.

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Saturday, June 6, 2015

Theater Review | Connecticut: Review: ‘Guys and Dolls’ in East Haddam Revives the World and Patois of Damon Runyon’s New York by Sylviane Gold

The musical, directed by Don Stephenson, resurrects the mobsters, hustlers and dames who inhabited Times Square.

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Friday, June 5, 2015

Ballet stars talk Tony-nominated 'An American in Paris' and Broadway leap by Sylviane Gold

It's been a Broadway tradition for more than half a century: Before the opening of every musical, a member of the chorus is presented with the Gypsy Robe, a treasured dressing gown embellish…

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Monday, May 25, 2015

Theater Review | Connecticut: Romance and Puppets, in Postwar France by SYLVIANE GOLD

The sweet-and-sour 1961 musical, “Carnival!,” is currently in revival at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn.

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50 Years of Wedded Life in Two Acts by SYLVIANE GOLD

The bride and groom at the center of a revival of the 1966 Broadway hit "I Do! I Do!" plow through 50 years of wedded life, blissful and otherwise, as we watch.

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A Tech-Happy Global Race, at the Speed of Jules Verne by SYLVIANE GOLD

Last weekend at Penguin Rep, a lively adaption of "Around the World in 80 Days" opened.

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Theater Review | Connecticut: An Unavoidable Collision by SYLVIANE GOLD

“The Train Driver,” by Athol Fugard, is being performed at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven through Nov. 21.

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A Town Divided by the Residue of War by SYLVIANE GOLD

“Snow Falling on Cedars,” a play adapted by Kevin McKeon from the novel by David Guterson, is at Hartford Stage.

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Friday, May 22, 2015

Theater Review | Connecticut: Theater Review: First Lady Runs the Country When President Wilson Can’t by Sylviane Gold

Joe DiPietro’s “The Second Mrs. Wilson,” in its world premiere in New Haven, explores one of the most complicated and fascinating relationships ever in the White House.

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Friday, May 15, 2015

Theater Review | Connecticut: Review of ‘The Liar’ at the Westport Country Playhouse by Sylviane Gold

David Ives adds verbal and physical gymnastics in his adaptation of a little-seen 17th-century French comedy by Pierre Corneille.

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Friday, April 10, 2015

Spotlight | Connecticut: A Play Inspired by a 1978 Tackle by Sylviane Gold

David Robson’s 80-minute drama depicts a testosterone-charged encounter between two men in a hotel room; but the question is pertinent because the play was inspired by a 2010 obituary.

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Friday, March 13, 2015

Theater Review | Connecticut: A Funeral, an Heirloom, and What It All Means: A Review of ‘Bad Jews’ in New Haven by Sylviane Gold

In his play at the Long Wharf Theater’s Stage II, Joshua Harmon is content to wring laughs from the manifestly unfunny situation.

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Friday, February 6, 2015

Theater Review | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Dancing Lessons’ in Hartford by Sylviane Gold

Mark St. Germain’s “Dancing Lessons,” in Hartford, is a blend of comedy, romance and homily on understanding autism.

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Friday, November 14, 2014

Theater Review | Westchester: A Review of 'Freud’s Last Session,' a Play by Mark St. Germain by Sylviane Gold

“Freud’s Last Session,” a play by Mark St. Germain, is at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls through Nov. 27.

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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Theater Review | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn’ in East Haddam by Sylviane Gold

“Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn” is a reworking of the 1942 movie musical for the stage by Gordon Greenberg and Chad Hodge, who have woven in additional tunes by Berlin.

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Friday, October 17, 2014

Theater Review | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Arcadia’ by Tom Stoppard at Yale Repertory Theater by Sylviane Gold

Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece offers piquant ruminations on love, time and mathematics.

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards