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EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS THIS SEASON!
From classic musical comedies to dysfunctional family dramas, we’ve got your tickets. No matter what you pick, you’ll be dazzled, provoked, and thoroughly entertained by the power and creativity on display this season. Reinvigorate your hearts and minds at any of these top Broadway picks...
Two Helpings of Pie from Broadway’s Fridge
The opportunity to see revivals of Gypsy and South Pacific side by side underscores the distance the American musical traveled in the 10 years between them.
The Shows Must Go On, but Not Until They Change Theaters
If Broadway critics said August and 39 Steps are moving experiences, they’d be right on the mark. |
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39 Steps, 2 Actors, Countless Roles
Will the thugs harm the old couple? Will the McGarrigles reveal the whereabouts of our hero and heroine? And how on earth will all four roles be played by just two actors?
From Sketch to Stage
A look at The 39 Steps with the show's set designer Peter McKintosh
Novel to Screen to Stage: Evolving Step by Step
In London the award-winning theatrical comedy is billed as John Buchan's The 39 Steps. But on Broadway, where the British import opened this month, it is called Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps.
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The Role Is a Workout, but She’s Fit
For the next several months, Estelle Parsons, the 80-year-old actress, will inhabit the physically demanding role of Violet Weston in the Broadway production of August: Osage County.
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The Boys of 'Billy' Get Ready to Lead
Three boys will rotate in and out of the title role when Billy Elliot reaches Broadway this fall.
The Billys of Broadway (Slideshow)
Three boys will alternate in the title role when Billy Elliot opens on Broadway.
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Coffee, Tea or Meat?
Hanging out with Kathryn Hahn, Mary McCormack and Gina Gershon, the three women who play flight attendants in the farcical play Boeing-Boeing.
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Sing Out, Laura. It’s Your Turn.
Laura Benanti, who has played a sultry movie star with Antonio Banderas in “Nine” and a slinky singer in “Swing!,” is now a stripper in “Gypsy.”
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The Stages of Bart Sher
How a director with a knack for experimental theater became the man behind two Tony Award-winning hits, three Metropolitan Opera productions and now the first Broadway revival of South Pacific.
Being Emile
Paulo Szot talks about playing the role of Emile de Becque in the revival of South Pacific.
You May See a Stranger
Paulo Szot is taking a leap of faith from the world of opera to the Broadway stage in the revival of South Pacific.
The Ingénue Who Roared
As Nellie in the smashing new revival of South Pacific, Kelli O’Hara deserves a medal for single-handedly rescuing the ingénue from extinction.
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Almost two years after the last performance at the Vineyard Theater, the musical [title of show] will present its latest chapters on Broadway.
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