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THE MOUNTAINTOP
New Broadway play, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, 242 W. 45th St.
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THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON
Broadway play revival, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, 242 W. 45th St.
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BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON
New Broadway musical, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, 242 W. 45th St.
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Like the best way to see an unfamiliar Shakespeare play, it's a good idea to read the Playbill synopsis before seeing Tom Stoppard's fascinating "Rock 'n' Roll" at the Bernard B. Jacobs theatre on West 45th Street. You get the drift to a British professor's old guard Marxism and the anti-Communism of a Czech rock culture leading to the basis of Stoppard's new two act play.
With all the politics of Russian spies suspicious of creators of rock 'n' roll forcing jail on them for their "subversive material" that one hardly realizes the play is a love story till the end. Some points are based on stoppard's life. He was born in Czechoslovakia like Jan (Rufus Sewell) who leaves Cambridge, England for Prague early in the play of nearly three hour duration. Nearly twenty years later [Jan Nicole A...
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In the first scene of "The Country Girl" at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, actor Peter Gallagher stabs a cigarette in the air to make a point or two.
Lucas Caleb Rooney, who plays a theater manager, puffs nervously on a cigarette and listens. Chip Zien, who portrays a calculating theater producer, draws slowly on a cigar as he watches Gallagher's impassioned speech.
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NEW YORK -- Under doctors' order, James Gandolfini is giving his vocal cords a rest -- so the Wednesday matinee performance of "God of Carnage" on Broadway was canceled. Susanne Tighe, a spokeswoman for the production, says the former star of "The Sopranos" was to return for the Wednesday evening performance of Yasmina Reza's comedy, which is now in previews. An official opening is set for March 22 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
Tyra Banks to talk about dating abuse
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ROCK 'N' ROLL
New Broadway play, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, 242 W. 45th St.
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NEW YORK - Martin Short sits in the cool comfort of his newly repainted star dressing room in the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (last occupant: Julia Roberts in "Three Days of Rain") and discourses on the differences between the Chicago and Toronto companies of the legendary comedy troupe Second City.
Chicago's, the original, "always was very, very well written, very politically astute and very smart," the comedian says. And Toronto's, its first offspring and a company that showcased Short in the late 1970s, was "a little sillier and, to me, a little funnier because it was absurd. People did characters. They wore wigs. In Chicago, there wasn't much of that.
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MARTIN SHORT: FAME BECOMES ME
New Broadway musical, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, 242 W. 45th St.
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NEW YORK - Martin Short sits in the cool comfort of his newly repainted star dressing room in the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (last occupant: Julia Roberts in "Three Days of Rain") and discourses on the differences between the Chicago and Toronto companies of the legendary comedy troupe Second City.
Chicago, the original, "always was very, very well written, very politically astute and very smart," the comedian says. And Toronto, its first offspring and a company that showcased Short in the late 1970s, was "a little sillier and, to me, a little funnier because it was absurd. People did characters. They wore wigs. In Chicago, there wasn't much of that.