This cut-down version of the classic play presents the French Revolution as a romantic personal tragedy.
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Theater Review (NYC): The Hyperbolist at Fringe
Joe Mazza's melange of puppetry, silent film, and vaudeville effectively fuses avant-garde philosophizing with the pulling of heartstrings.
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Fine operatic singing fails to rescue this bumpy production of Schiller's tale of Joan of Arc.
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It must be noted that this broadcast of South Pacific is as good as it gets in terms of theater coming to television.
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Jeff Buckley's Romeo and Juliet: My kingdom for a kiss upon the shoulder.
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Withers played more performances of some of the greatest musicals than their original stars did, but never got to open a new show on Broadway.
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In Chicago, during Prohibition, a crop of female killers became the biggest celebrities of the day.
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Some people will really enjoy this show, a great many would class it as near-torture.
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This one-man, multi-character show devolves into a shouting match.
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Couldn't Stand The Weather gets re-issued again...
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