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Monday, January 24, 2011

Save the play for parents by Barbara Hoffman

"Pee-wee's Playhouse" has come and gone, but Playwrights Horizons is just setting up shop. What a concept: in-theater childcare! Beginning with the Feb. 27 matinee of a play called, aptly…

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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Families that stage together by Barbara Hoffman and Elisabeth Vincentelli

Happy families, Tolstoy mused, are all alike — it’s the messy, miserable ones we love to watch. So are great dramas born, from “King Lear” through “Long Day’s Journey Into Night�…

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

For star, the play's the fling by Barbara Hoffman

Rebecca Northan -- single, bright and attractive -- has had more than three dozen blind dates, none of which led anywhere. Maybe it's the rubber clown nose. Mostly, though, it's becaus…

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Sunday, November 14, 2010

My New York: Jesse L. Martin by Barbara Hoffman

Shooting “Law & Order” for nearly a decade took Jesse L. Martin through every neighborhood in the city more than once. “I can’t tell you how many times I stood on a corner thinking, …

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'X' man's evolution by Barbara Hoffman

Talk about moving out of your comfort zone. For his stage debut, David Duchovny chose Neil LaBute’s “The Break of Noon” — which features the former FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder in ev…

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