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Into the Woods: Broadly Misconceived, Still Potent

Monday, August 13th, 2012
by on Playing Around

Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods is an intimate show with profound ideas (and unflagging black humor). Characters must be our focus. The more complicated the

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As You Like It Public Theater/Delacorte Theater

Theater As You Like It At The Delacorte

Friday, June 22nd, 2012
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What could be more ideal for Shakespeare In The Park than As You Like It? The realistic looking trees and setting of the forest of

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Summer Lovin’

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
by on Living Around

Eight Romantic (and Affordable) Adventures in New York City The warm weather that goes hand in hand with summer makes for ample opportunity to plan

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All’s Well at Shakespeare in the Park this Summer

Thursday, June 30th, 2011
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If life was categorized as a Shakespearean work, it would probably be called a “problem play”—so complicated with its moods and turns of events that

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Andrea Marcovicci: Breakfast by Candlelight

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
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Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling…Charles Baudelaire It’s 6 a.m. in Studio City, California.

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The Winter's Tale
Public Theater/Delacorte Theater

King’s Lament: Shakespeare in the Park’s The Winter’s Tale

Saturday, July 17th, 2010
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The long stretch of pitched tents and open lawn chairs faithfully forms up to the box office of Central Park’s Delacorte Theatre during the summer

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The Grand Manner
Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

What News On the Rialto? Merchant of Venice in the Park

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
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It’s the hottest day of the year, and just beginning to sprinkle. A gray haired lady, not more than five feet tall, elbows you hard

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We Could Have Listened All Night

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
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They came from as far away as New Zealand and Australia. One gentleman flew over from London dressed in a tuxedo for the occasion. An

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