Dolly Parton, Rosie O'Donnell, Geoffrey Rush, David Hyde Pierce, Rose McGowan, Valerie Harper, Stephanie J. Block, Janet McTeer and more join Jane Fonda for the Broadway opening of 33 Variat…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMFor all its lofty ambitions, it doesn't rise to the level of great theater. Still, it's an engaging work centering on a classical music mystery; and Jane Fonda's performance is a high note.
Linked From NY1 at 12:00AMSeveral Broadway productions posted generally minor box office declines last week -- but the Street's overall cume rose, thanks to an incoming tide of previewing shows.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMInternational theater and world music will be front and center at this year's Lincoln Center Festival.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMHow to interpret the fast, funny "Shrek" for deaf and blind audiences? It's all about set-up and punchline.
Linked From www.tdf.org at 12:00AMATLANTA - Andre 3000's sassy cast of musical kids, who celebrated everything from crayons to the blues in the short-lived TV cartoon series "Class of 3000," have brought their eclectic sound…
Linked From news.yahoo.com at 12:00AMMandrake hears an intriguing backstage whisper that Jane Fonda might, at the grand old age of 71, be about to tread the boards in the West End.
Linked From Telegraph at 12:00AMPat Healy, the New York Times theater reporter, talks with Jane Fonda and Moisés Kaufman about the Broadway production of the play "33 Variations."
Linked From The New York Times at 12:00AMJane Fonda (accompanied by Beethoven) is not to be missed.
Linked From New York Magazine at 12:00AMActor Jane Fonda's much-anticipated return to Broadway certainly delivers the goods, writes Ed Pilkington
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMMoisés Kaufman's "33 Variations" unfurls as a strange but fascinating exploration of the later years of Ludwig van Beethoven, featuring a still radiant Jane Fonda as a physically fail…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMIf Kaufman's work, which he admits in the Playbill offers a "fictional perspective" on the "Variations," is unlikely to be paired with Beethoven's in history books, and if lacks the personal…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 12:00AM...a fascinating, elegantly written, absorbing play with an interestingly developed leading role.
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 12:00AMFor the most part, Kaufman's play hits the right notes - and not just with music. It is an engrossing and moving drama that music enthusiasts are bound to especially appreciate.
Linked From weblogs.amny.com at 12:00AMYou don't have to know Beethoven from Bach to find yourself thoroughly absorbed by the theatricality with which Moises Kaufman has connected a legendary musical mystery about a Beethoven com…
Linked From CurtainUp at 12:00AMJane Fonda returns to Broadway in Moises Kaufman's often rewarding play about a dying musicologist.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMI'm willing to forgive a fair amount in a production that returns Jane Fonda with such gallantry to the Broadway stage after an absence of 46 years.
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 12:00AMKaufman's effort has its distinctive, and even lovely, moments, but, overall, it doesn't stack up very well against Stoppard's play.
Linked From NorthJersey.com at 12:00AM"33 Variations" so busily tries to impress you with its civility and erudition that it neglects to make you care.
Linked From Washington Post at 12:00AMJane Fonda makes her long-overdue Broadway return in a disappointingly lifeless play.
Linked From The Hollywood Reporter at 12:00AMThe result is a strained, pseudo-serious, intellectually scattershot project that makes us appreciate all the pitfalls that "Wit" (about a dying scholar with intimacy issues) and "Amadeus" (…
Linked From Newsday Subscription at 12:00AMEnding in a laughable pseudo-epiphany, "33 Variations" is really a charade in three parts: one part "Amadeus," one part Cliffs Notes, and one part "Lifetime Movie of the Week."
Linked From Bloomberg at 12:00AMMoisés Kaufman's muddled play is like "Amadeus" meets Lifetime TV.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMThe play often seems dramatically tepid and slow moving. And this despite the efforts of a hardworking cast that includes Jane Fonda, returning to the New York after an absence of more than …
Linked From news.yahoo.com at 12:00AMThis year's 'best new play' opened in Scotland in 2006 and only became eligible when it turned up in London. The Oliviers must shake up their act - and become more transparent too
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMSTAGE NOTES | London production brings Olivier Award for Northwestern design instructor
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 12:00AMRSC, Donmar Warehouse and Black Watch lead Olivier Awards
Linked From Theater News Online at 12:00AMCompanies depend on reviews to spur interest, fill seats at their productions
Linked From Denver Post at 12:00AMComedy written by an unknown in the mid-1990s bears strong similarities to a production by one of the giants of British theatre. Simon Tait reports
Linked From The Independent at 12:00AMThe misogynistic, wig-wearing female impersonator is being replaced by a sassier, more sophisticated act. Andrew Johnson reports
Linked From The Independent at 12:00AMWhile being based on an old movie or a much loved back catalogue can guarantee a musical's commercial success, bold new work can still find a place in the West End.
Linked From Telegraph at 12:00AMSimon Gray spent his last months adapting his diaries for the stage. His collaborator tells Jasper Rees how they did it
Linked From The Guardian at 12:00AMWhat are thought to be the long-lost remains of William Shakespeare's first theatre, in which plays such as Romeo and Juliet were first performed, have been uncovered by archaeologists.
Linked From Telegraph at 12:00AMGeorge Dvorsky has made a career as the Nice Guy romantic lead in musicals.
Linked From www.pittsburghlive.com at 12:00AMDame Edna Everage, an Australian housewife-turned-megastar, arrives at the Parker Playhouse on Tuesday for three glorious weeks in a show she's calling Dame Edna's First Last Tour -- though she has had some second thoughts about the title.
Linked From Miami Herald at 12:00AMAlan Muraoka takes a break from his store on 'Sesame Street' to direct Casa Mañana's production of the Disney favorite
Linked From www.dfw.com at 12:00AMIf Jeff Marx had not been an entertainment lawyer in New York back around the turn of the 21st century, "Avenue Q" might never have been a Tony Award- winning Broadway musical.
Linked From The Sacramento Bee at 12:00AMAny group of enthusiasts will contain the occasional freak, but in this collection anyone marginally rational is the oddity
Linked From entertainment.timesonline.co.uk at 12:00AMLeading British screen and television actor Edward Judd has died at the age of 77.
Linked From The Stage at 12:00AMGiven Jackson's apparent affinity for the supper-club format, one hopes he will rethink his material in favor of songs that better showcase his talents.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMBarbara Walsh gives a ferocious and funny performance as opera diva Maria Callas in the Paper Mill Playhouse's strong production of Terrence McNally's drama.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AM"Master Class," Terrence McNally's 1995 homage to turbulent opera diva Maria Callas, retains its bite in Wendy C. Goldberg's vivid new staging at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMBarbara Walsh is doing justice to the Callas-invoked idiosyncrasies and temperament
Linked From CurtainUp at 12:00AMThis energetically acted example of journalism as theater explores some issues that deserve more attention.
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 12:00AMThe first major London revival of "Dancing at Lughnasa" confirms the greatness of Brian Friel's 1990 play, though Anna Mackmin's fine production doesn't always harness the anger and pain jus…
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMThis musical revue at the Triad Theatre is a highly entertaining mosaic of the era.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMFUNNY how the most piercing social commentary these days is found in places that serve a stiff drink. On the heels of several acclaimed turns by cabaret performers drawing on vintage songs t…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMThere is always talk about "chemistry".Do they have it or not?A Little Night Music has enough chemistry and sexual tension to cause a major explosion on Main Street.
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 12:00AMThe White Plains Performing Arts Center appears to have obvious budgetary constraints, but their pocket-sized version of the 1973 Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler tuner has heart and a handful …
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMThis wacky if unevenly performed and written satire asks serious questions about democracy in the Obama era.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMMusicals Tonight! is to be commended for introducing a lost Jerome Kern score to New York audiences. But presenting such arcane material requires a sharper, more confident execution than is …
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMAdapter and director Jeff Cohen has repositioned Molière's comedy about a 17th-century sleazebag and his patsy into early-Depression Manhattan, 1931, and it largely works.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMIf somewhere in New York City there is a less well-structured script than Charles Case's "Shekinah" or a more irritating performance than Steven Francisco's, then I have happily missed them.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMThis futuristic cocktail isn't ready for present consumption.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMPlaywright Hayley Heaton's is an interesting concept and a dramatic two-person improvement over prior Ezra Pound plays, which mostly had him ranting solo in a jail cell in Italy.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMA Kafkaesque (and, one imagines, Guantanamo-esque) drama
Linked From CurtainUp at 12:00AMA group of Shakespeare scholars and art historians say that a recently discovered portrait is the only known likeness to have been painted in his lifetime.
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