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Monday, March 14, 2016

New York’s First Lady Reviews Eclipsed on Broadway by Carl Swanson

At 5:30 on Friday, March 11, as I was winding things up at the office to prepare to meet my boyfriend to see Eclipsed, I got an email from the mayor’s office: He was going to be there, too…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:23PM
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Manhattan’s West Side Piers, Back When They Were Naked and Gay by Carl Swanson

One of the many pleasures of the current MoMA PS1 “Greater New York” show is its sense of uncovering artifacts, of showing various sedimentary layers of this city. Not that everything in…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:39AM
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Sting Might Return to The Last Ship, in London by Carl Swanson

Last night, high atop the great black glass Hearst Tower, Sting played a short acoustic set of songs from The Last Ship, his grand industrial lament of a musical, which, despite its beautifu…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:34AM
Monday, May 25, 2015

Latter-Day Saints by Carl Swanson

For South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, a Broadway musical about Mormons may just be their highest artistic achievement yet.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM
Friday, March 20, 2015

Mr. Schue in Neverland: Matthew Morrison on the End of Glee and Going Back to Broadway by Carl Swanson

It’s late afternoon, halfway through a 12-hour-long rehearsal day for Finding Neverland, the musical version of the 2004 Johnny Depp movie about the playwright J.M. Barrie — creator, 111…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:38AM

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