Clive Barnes
The Archive
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Editor's note: "Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake" -- with its corps of male swans -- returns to New York this week for a limited run; it opens Sunday. But is it...
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"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY":*** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize winner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping and...
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"ALL MY SONS": ** 1/2: Arthur Miller's period piece is given a starry cast (John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson, Katie Holmes) who were apparently told to shout their lungs...
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"ALL MY SONS": ** 1/2: Arthur Miller's period piece is given a starry cast (John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson, Katie Holmes) who were apparently told to shout their lungs...
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"ALL MY SONS": ** 1/2: Arthur Miller's period piece is given a starry cast (John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson, Katie Holmes) who were apparently told to shout their lungs...
BROADWAY
"ALL MY SONS": ** 1/2: Arthur Miller's period piece is given a starry cast (John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson, Katie Holmes) who were apparently told to shout their lungs...
BROADWAY
"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY":*** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize winner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping and...
BROADWAY
"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize winner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping and...
BROADWAY
"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize winner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping...
BROADWAY
"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize winner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping...
'FLAMES' HOT, 'FLING' NOT
AMERICAN Ballet Theatre's program Tuesday night mixed a sensation with a mild disappointment. The sensation was the first appearance in a major role of the company's new, 21-year-old Russian virtuoso,...
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"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize winner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping...
IT'S TUDOR CITY & A FINE RETRO
AMERICAN Ballet The atre is devoting its current fall season at City Center to the great English choreographer, Antony Tudor, who was the architect of ABTs early success, and remained,...
SPEED YOUR WAY TO REVIVAL OF MAMET'S 'PLOW'
WHEN Hollywood meets Broadway, sparks fly and Tinseltown's incinerated - especially if the flamethrower is David Mamet. So it is with "Speed-the-Plow." Now, 20 years after its premiere - in...
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"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize winner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping...
JUST WHAT DOC ORDERED
FAUSTIAN bargains have al ways fascinated opera com posers. And it is a whole nation's Faustian bargain - the creation of the atomic bomb - that provides the motif and...
NOT MUCH TO SHOUT ABOUT
THERE'S an awful lot of shouting these days at the Schoenfeld Theatre, where Arthur Miller's early melodrama "All My Sons" opened last night in a powerfully acted revival. A starry...
DULL DIRECTION, DOWDY SET AND NO JACK BENNY
WENDING my way through impenetrable Eighth Ave nue traffic the other day, I couldn't think of anything worse than missing the first 10 minutes of "To Be or Not To...
SAN FRANCISCO TREAT
EUROPE has a strange attitude to America's three major classic dance companies - New York City Bal let, American Ballet Theatre and the San Francisco Ballet - nowadays often giving...
'ZORRO' MAKING ITS MARK
LONDON - One of the pleasures for New York theater buffs abroad is in guessing whether this or that West End production will make it to Broadway. So far, the...