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nysocboy · 27 days
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Stephen Louis Grush: From Pericles to Peter's Militia, with nude photos of practically everybody
Stephen Louis Grush, one of the militia men in Season 3 of The Righteous Gemstones, has over 30 credits on the IMDB, often in projects that emphasize gay subtexts, or texts.
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In Catch Hell (2014), two toughs (Stephen Louis Grush, Ian Barford) kidnap a Hollywood actor (Ryan Philippe) with the intent of torturing and killing him.  They do a lot of torturing, but Junior (Stephen) also falls in love with him.
In Gracepoint (2014), Stephen plays a plumber's apprentice who may be gay, accused of murdering a small boy.
In a 3-episode story arc on Rectify (2016), focus character Danny (Adan Young) is  living in a halfway house.  His roommate Manny (Stephen) walks around naked and masturbates in front of him; this is particularly upsetting because he was repeatedly raped in prison.  But Manny won't stop.  Finally Danny tells the house leader about it, expecting the guy to be kicked out.  Instead, they give him a new roommate.
Coincidentally, Gavin Munn appeared in an episode of Rectify, playing a little boy who Danny sees on the beach, causing him to think about a "normal" life, with a heterosexual wife and kids.
 Stephen graduated from Roosevelt University in 2006 with a B.F.A. in Theater Performance.  He is the artistic director of XIII Pocket, which produces and performs original plays by Chicago-area playwrights.
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He frequently appears on the Chicago stage.  His credits include The Seagull, Romeo and Juliet, Pericles, The Tempest, Lifeguard, Sex with Strangers, and The Last of the Boys.
The NSFW post, with nude photos, is on Righteous Gemstones Beefcake and Boyfriends
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lovelover28 · 4 years
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Armie with the cast of his upcoming play the The Minutes! Doing some press in New York! So proud of him!!! 👏🏼❤️
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frontmezzjunkies · 5 years
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Steppenwolf and Second Stage Move Us into Linda Vista
#frontmezzjunkies reviews: #LindaVista by #TracyLetts @SteppenwolfThtr at #SecondStageTheater @2STNYC @Barford66Ian @CoraVanderBroek @Chantal_Thuy @Caroline_Neff @JimTrueFrost1 #SallyMurphy #TroyWest d: #DexterBullard #2STonBroadway
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The Review: Second Stage’s Linda Vista
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Helping move someone into an apartment eight shows a week is a trial for any friend, new or old, and in Steppenwolf’s production of Linda Vista, as they bring in the boxes and the rug, we feel for the kind hearted friend, Paul, played wisely by the excellent Jim True-Frost (Broadway’s Buried Child). His buddy, the central character in this funny…
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caroleditosti · 5 years
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'Linda Vista' by Tracy Letts, a Sharp, Edgy Romp Through Sex, Love and Male Menopause
‘Linda Vista’ by Tracy Letts, a Sharp, Edgy Romp Through Sex, Love and Male Menopause
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(L to R): Caroline Neff, Ian Barford, Troy West in ‘Linda Vista,’ written by Tracy Letts, directed by Dexter Bullard (Joan Marcus)
Steppenwolf’s production of Linda Vistaby Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award® winner Tracy Letts is a wild ride through aging masculinity receding in a “heady” pattern like one found in male baldness. Once it begins, the decline is precipitous and unwieldy if not ragingly…
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insanityclause · 3 years
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Although their romance has been quite loki for some time now, Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton appeared to flip the script for this year's Tony Awards. The Marvel actor, 40, attended the annual ceremony with Zawe, 37, on Sunday, Sept. 26. The Loki star was nominated in the Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play category for his role in the 2019 revival of Betrayal. The Broadway production is where he first met Zawe, as the two starred in the play as a strained couple. The co-stars, although they have never previously confirmed an off-screen relationship, have been linked together ever since the show's run. For the honorable night, Tom opted to wear a navy-blue suit and bowtie, while the Wanderlust actress donned a gorgeous red tulle Carolina Herrera gown. They posed alongside other actors, including their Betrayal co-star Charlie Cox and director Jamie Lloyd on the red carpet and smiled for a photo of just the two of them inside the award show.
As far as who Tom faced up against for the Tony, the category's nominations included: Ian Barford from Linda Vista, Jake Gyllenhaal from Sea Wall/A Life, Tom Sturridge from Sea Wall/A Life, Blair Underwood from A Soldier's Play and Andrew Burnap from The Inheritance, who ended up snagging the trophy for his performance.
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Even though Tom didn't walk away from the night with an award, we're sure that having Zawe by his side made for a winning night regardless.
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twh-news · 3 years
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Deadline’s Tony Award Picks & Predictions 2021: ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Or ‘Moulin Rouge’? Hiddleston Or Gyllenhaal? Choices For A Most Unusual Year
[Speculations on the 74th Tony Awards. Remember to take with a pinch of salt]
I'm glad I took notes. Looking at the roster of nominees for this year’s too-long-delayed Tony Awards is all the reminder anyone could need of just how interminable Broadway’s Covid pandemic shutdown has seemed. Productions and performances from the 2019-20 season, many reviewed nearly two years ago, are calling out – some more forcefully than others – to be remembered and honored. As I said, I’m glad I took notes.
This Sunday, the Tony Awards ceremony will be livestreamed on Paramount+, then immediately followed by the two-hour CBS concert special Broadway’s Back!, a celebration of Broadway’s recent reopening after the shutdown of 16-months (or 17 or 18 depending on which shows you decide were the official comebacks). Pre-pandemic, the Tonys originally were scheduled for June 2020, but March of that year brought the sickness and an abrupt shutdown of the industry that would leave a mere 18 productions eligible for the awards, down from 34 the previous year. The awards were postponed twice, most recently – thought it certainly doesn’t feel recent – a year ago when the nominations were announced.
As many as 16 shows scheduled for spring 2020 fell out of the Broadway schedule (and Tony competition). Some – including Six, which was supposed to open the very night of the shutdown, and Girl From The North Country, which like the revival of West Side Story had opened but had not yet fulfilled its Tony voter requirements – would certainly have made at least the Best Musical race a healthier contest.
So the Tony organizers – the Broadway League, the American Theatre Wing, CBS – had some big decisions to make, even after the year-long postponement that seems, in retrospect and at least to me, wrong-headed. First up was how to get the network to continue its broadcast tradition for an annually low-rated event that this year would, quite literally, be a mere fraction of its former self.
The answer – and we’ll know Sunday whether it was a good one or not – was to essentially split the difference. A few big awards – Best Play, Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical – will be announced live during the CBS special (and also streamed on Paramount+) but the bulk of awards are set for livestream only, a move that seems at odds with Broadway’s recent endeavors to position itself as something not just for wealthy New Yorkers and spend-happy tourists. Paramount+ does, in fact, offer a free trial period, so Broadway fans who don’t want to pay for a streaming service can watch the show without spending a penny – just make sure to cancel before the trial ends – but still. The visuals, as they say, aren’t great.
Certainly in some ways, this split decision – the livestream-broadcast hybrid – makes sense. The abbreviated roster of nominees and the year-long delay was always going to be a tough sell to CBS, and just as certainly Broadway fans want to see how even some of the less ballyhooed competitions play out. What will Moulin Rouge‘s Aaron Tveit – the sole nominee in the Lead Actor/Musical category – say when he takes the stage? And which of the nominees for Best Original Score will prove literally memorable? That category includes no musicals – repeat, no musicals – since each of the Best Musical nominees were of the golden-oldie jukebox variety. That left the plays to handle the Original Score burden – and left Tony voters trying very, very hard to mentally summon just what, exactly, the incidental music of The Rose Tattoo actually sounded like.
As a commercial move to promote the reopening of Broadway (and boost much-needed ticket sales for Broadway’s current line-up, even if it includes only a few of this year’s Tony nominees), both the postponement of the ceremony and the expansive concert special seems justifiable. The Tonys have always been as much an advertisement for sales as a recognition of achievement. But as a way to celebrate the productions and performers who hit the stages prior to the March 2020 shutdown, the decision feels less defendable. Even without CBS, a livestream or digital Tonys last fall would certainly have felt more immediate (and, in a way, hopeful), with nominees still fresh in minds and everyone – including, I suspect, more than a few in competition – still feeling fully invested.
So. After racking my brain, checking my gut and deciphering scribbles in old notebooks, my picks and predictions in selected Tony categories are as follows. Of course, the only sure bet is Tveit – though even that one-nominee category could, theoretically, see an upset: Tony voters could choose not to give that award at all. Won’t happen, but after the last year and a half, is anyone still capable of being surprised?
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BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
Betrayal, Harold Pinter; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Terrence McNally; A Soldier’s Play, Charles Fuller
Will Win: A Soldier’s Play | Should Win: Betrayal
The beautifully performed and directed Betrayal was a revelation – a Pinter play as downright entertaining as it was thought-provoking, but Fuller’s long-in-coming arrival on Broadway with his modern classic A Soldier’s Play all but demands a win. Of course, Broadway could choose to honor McNally, the beloved stage icon who passed away from Covid last year, and whose Frankie and Johnny remains an essential part of the American canon. Still, for me, Betrayal is the production that stands out.
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BEST PERFORMANCE, LEAD ACTOR/PLAY
Ian Barford, Linda Vista; Andrew Burnap, The Inheritance; Jake Gyllenhaal, Sea Wall/A Life; Tom Hiddleston, Betrayal; Tom Sturridge, Sea Wall/A Life; Blair Underwood, A Soldier’s Play
Will Win: Hiddleston | Should Win: Sturridge
Hiddleston was terrific in Betrayal, and has every right to the trophy, but for me Sturridge in A Life gave the most powerful performance in the category as the grieving father whose family was destroyed by a single instance of atrocious happenstance. Other devotees of Sea Wall/A Life might choose first-time nominee Gyllenhaal (and I’d have no serious complaint there), and Underwood is certainly a popular and enjoyable actor (though saddled with the least interesting plot-device character in A Soldier’s Play). Barford and Burnap are extreme long-shots, leaving a four-man race with Hiddleston the likely winner if only by a slight edge.
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bwaybean21 · 2 years
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The Minutes | Broadway | Studio 54 | NYC | April 7th 8pm | untracked | bway_bean's master. Can be gifted or traded. 
CAST: noah reid (mr peel) jessie mueller (ms johnson) tracy lett (mayor superba) ian barford (mr carp) blair brown (ms innes) danny mccarthy (mr hanratty) sally murphy (ms matz) jeff still (mr assalone) austin pendleton (mr oldfield) k todd freedman (mr blake) cliff chamberlain (mr breeding) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cBk-pGMox8uNnXjndpGCV292w0Y7UVii/view?usp=sharing
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If you need to replace a disgraced actor in your play, maybe it makes sense to go with someone from a project famous for being nice. The upcoming Broadway production of The Minutes, a play written by Tracy Letts, has announced that Schitt’s Creek’s Noah Reid is joining the production when it returns next spring. Reid is filling the role previously played by Armie Hammer, who left The Minutes this April amid accusations of rape and physical assault. The play is a dark comedy about a small town’s city council with mysterious secrets. Directed by Anna D. Shapiro, this production of The Minutes started performances on Broadway in February 2020, with Hammer among its cast, but the COVID pandemic cut its run short before it officially opened. The production plans to return to performances on March 19, 2022 with the rest of its cast in place, including Ian Barford, Blair Brown, and Letts himself. Before then, does Disney have time to also edit Noah Reid into Death on the Nile?
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uhlikzsuzsanna · 3 years
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74th Annual Tony Awards Nominations
Best Revival of a Play
Betrayal
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
A Soldier’s Play
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Ian Barford, Linda Vista
Andrew Burnap, The Inheritance
Jake Gyllenhaal, Sea Wall/A Life
Tom Hiddleston, Betrayal
Tom Sturridge, Sea Wall/A Life
Blair Underwood, A Soldier’s Play
Best Scenic Design of a Play
Bob Crowley, The Inheritance
Soutra Gilmour, Betrayal
Rob Howell, A Christmas Carol
Derek McLane, A Soldier’s Play
Clint Ramos, Slave Play
Best Direction of a Play
David Cromer, The Sound Inside
Stephen Daldry, The Inheritance
Kenny Leon, A Soldier’s Play
Jamie Lloyd, Betrayal
Robert O’Hara, Slave Play
Full List of the 2020 Tony Award Nominees
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theluworld · 3 years
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BY NINA GODFREY AND ROMA TORRE NEW YORK CITYPUBLISHED 6:00 AM ET DEC. 03, 2020
Now that vaccines are coming into focus, it’s time to start thinking about Broadway’s return. We’ve all been wondering, exactly when will the fabulous invalid get back on its feet? Well, there are signs of renewed life on the Great White Way, though it’s going to be quite a while before any of us can set foot in a Broadway house. I compiled a short list of productions that have announced performance dates, along with some others that provided a general projection of their opening night.
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“The Minutes” Opening: March 15, 2022, (exactly two years after original opening date) Theater TBA
Written by Tracy Letts with Anna D. Shapiro directing, the play stars Tracy Letts, Armie Hammer, Jessie Mueller, Ian Barford, Blair Brown, K. Todd Freeman, Sally Murphy, and Austin Pendleton.
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Official promo pictures and episode summaries for  episodes 6-10 of Father Brown Series 8, airing on BBC in January 2020. Summaries under  the cut for length.   (Promo pics and photos for episodes 1-5 can be found here.)
The Numbers of The Beast (13 Jan 2020)
Mrs McCarthy strikes it lucky at the church bingo with the help of a fortune-teller.
Mrs McCarthy (Sorcha Cusack) is stunned when her sister Roisin (Niamh Cusack) arrives in Kembleford. Roisin’s made friends with a fortune-teller named Trafalgar Devlin (Grant Masters) and wants Mrs McCarthy to meet him. Over a cup of tea, Trafalgar predicts the winning jackpot line numbers for the Hambleston Church bingo event run by Samuel Hinds (Nigel Betts). Later, at the church bingo, Mrs McCarthy buys a card with Trafalgar’s numbers on it and wins the jackpot prize, much to her astonishment!
Meanwhile Anna Bailey (Alison Pargeter) is keen to speak to Father Brown (Mark Williams) urgently about some fraud she’s discovered. When Father Brown goes to see her the next morning to discuss the matter, he finds her dead. Her husband Peter (Graeme Hawley) is holding a bloodied murder weapon, and insisting it wasn’t him. But is Peter telling the truth?
The River Corrupted (14 Jan 2020)
Sid returns to Kembleford to ask his old family to help save his new one.
After Maeve Lochlin’s (Bronte Terrell) father Pat (Ian Puleston-Davies) is accused of murdering Roger Barford (Andrew Whipp), Maeve and her boyfriend Sid Carter (Alex Price) travel to Kembleford to ask Father Brown (Mark Williams) to help them clear his name.
Father Brown promises to do all he can and pays a visit to Blind ‘Arry’s (Alan Williams) where Pat is laying low. Things don’t look good for Pat when it is revealed that he and Roger had an argument about money on the night Roger was killed. Roger’s widow Georgina Barford (Hannah Yelland) is convinced that Pat is guilty, but Father Brown’s suspicions turn towards barmaid Polly Beavington (Gabrielle Creevy), who used to work for Roger at his textile factory. Were the two having an affair? And did Roger finish it? When Pat is arrested for murder, it’s down to Father Brown to prove his innocence before it’s too late.
The Curse of the Aesthetic (15 Jan 2020)
Father Brown must discover who is out to kill a tortured artist before it’s too late.
Tortured artist Benjamin Milton (George Webster) struggles to contain his emotions when an exhibition at his estate, Milton Manor, dedicated to his ‘muse’ Isabella (Isabella Peroux), doesn’t go to plan. A bust of her likeness is defaced; and a suspected attempt on his life is made when art collector Conrad French (Justin Avoth) tries to enter Benjamin’s studio and is electrocuted.
Meanwhile Benjamin is also at loggerheads with his sister Katie (Rhiannon Neads) over his share of the estate, which they both occupy. He also has to fend off the unwanted advances of would-be life model Rose (Danielle Phillips). Things get even worse when his housekeeper Nanny Ribble (Harriet Thorpe) is found murdered, with a knitting needle stuck in her neck. It’s down to Father Brown (Mark Williams) to work out who is responsible for Nanny Ribble’s death, and who would want to kill Benjamin and why.
The Fall of the House of St Gardner (16 Jan 2020)
A gossip columnist is murdered after threatening to expose the secrets of a fashion house.
When fashion designer Lady Vivien St Gardner-Verde (Rosalie Craig) heeds Bunty’s (Emer Kenny) warnings not to let gossip columnist Barbara Farrell (Amanda Lawrence) attend her new fashion show, Barbara promises revenge on the House of St Gardner. But when the fashion show venue falls through, Vivien decides to stage the event in Kembleford instead, along with the help of Sir Ralph Verde (Nick Waring), Harvey St Gardner (Ben Lamb), and model Camille Hogan (Ingvild Lakou).
However, when they arrive, they discover Barbara has tracked them down to Kembleford and is just as vicious as ever. Father Brown (Mark Williams) implores Barbara to choose a righteous path; but she ignores him. Soon after, Barbara is found dead in her lodgings - her head bashed in with a typewriter. Was she planning to publish a secret that would bring the St Gardner house down? Meanwhile Bunty, who is romantically involved with Harvey, is left wondering if he could be Barbara’s killer…
The Tower of Lost Souls (17 Jan 2020)
Father Brown joins forces with Chief Inspector Valentine to uncover a dark secret at Helmsley House.
After the body of Reginald Brody is discovered at the bottom of Helmsley Tower, Chief Inspector Valentine (Hugo Speer) returns to Kembleford to investigate. Suspecting that there is more to his death than suicide, Valentine enlists Father Brown (Mark Williams) to help investigate.
Meanwhile Alistair Helmsley (Gyuri Sarossy) and his wife Emily (Susannah Wise), with gardener George Oakley (Cal Macaninch), are determined to continue organizing a fundraiser for injured veterans at Helmsley House. Valentine suspects Alistair’s brother William (James Anderson) may have pertinent information and brings him in for questioning, but he refuses to talk. Later, at the top of Helmsley Tower, William is about to reveal the identity of Reginald’s killer when he is murdered, and Valentine is framed for his death, leading to his arrest. It is down to Father Brown and Chief Inspector Sullivan (Tom Chambers) to clear Valentine’s name and find the real killer.
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It's a Big Day for Armie today! His play arrives on Broadway! Merde!
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Tracy Letts' Pulitzer-finalist play The Minutes begins its Broadway run at the Cort Theatre on February 25. Anna D. Shapiro directs the production, which will officially open on March 15.
Described as a comedy, The Minutes refracts the current state of America and our politics through a town meeting in the small fictional city of Big Cherry.
Playwright Letts leads the cast as Mayor Superba, with Jessie Mueller as Ms. Johnson, Armie Hammer as Mr. Peel and Blair Brown as Ms. Innes.
The company also includes Ian Barford as Mr. Carp, Sally Murphyas Ms. Matz, K. Todd Freeman as Mr. Blake, Austin Pendleton as Mr. Oldfield, Cliff Chamberlain as Mr. Peel, Danny McCarthy as Mr. Hanratty and Jeff Still as Mr. Assalone.
The Minutes features scenic design by David Zinn, costume design by Ana Kuzmanic, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt and sound design/original music by André Pluess.
The production is scheduled to play a limited engagement through June 14.
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On what would have been the 74th annual Tony Awards, let’s celebrate the 41 shows of the Broadway 2019-2020 season, 25 of which actually opened.
The shows below are organized chronologically by opening date. Those that actually opened are linked to my review; the ones that didn’t get a chance to open are linked to their promotional websites.  In unintentional mimicry of  the Tony Award broadcast’s greater attention to musicals than straight plays, most of the musicals are accompanied by a video of some kind; the straight plays mostly just get a still photograph.
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Audra and Michael Shannon in Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
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Sea Wall/A Life
Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal, who appear separately to deliver monologues in Sea Wall/A Life
Betrayal
Zawe Ashton as Emma, Charlie Cox as Jerry (Emma’s adulterous lover), and Tom Hiddleston as Robert (Emma’s husband and Jerry’s best and oldest friend)
Derren Brown: Secret
The Height of the Storm
The Great Society
Brian Cox as LBJ in Robert Schenkkan’s 2019 sequel to “All The Way”
Freestyle Love Supreme
Chris Sullivan, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Aneesa Folds
Slave Play
Joaquina Kalukango and Paul Alexander Nolan (
Linda Vista
Cora Vander Broek and Ian Barford
The Rose Tattoo
The Lightning Thief
The Sound Inside
American Utopia
Tina
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Slava’s Snowshow
The Inheritance
Samuel H. Levine, Kyle Soller and Andrew Burnap in The Inheritance
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol on Broadway
Jagged Little Pill
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My Name is Lucy Barton
A Soldier’s Play
Rob Demery, J Alphonse Nicholson, Mickenly Belcher III
Grand Horizons
West Side Story
Isaac Powell and Shereen Pimentel as Tony and Maria
Girl From The North Country
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Six
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The Minutes
K. Todd Freeman, Armie Hammer, and Danny McCarthy
  Hangmen 
(My review of it Off-Broadway)
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Company
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The Lehman Trilogy
(my review of it Off-Broadway)
  Diana
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Mrs. Doubtfire
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Caroline, or Change
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Plaza Suite
Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, Plaza Suite
American Buffalo
The cast of American Buffalo, Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss, scheduled to open on Broadway when Broadway reopens.
Flying Over Sunset
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Sing Street
(My review of it Off-Broadway)
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Birthday Candles
How I Learned to Drive
David Morse and Mary-Louise Parker in How I Learned to Drive
Take Me Out
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Celebrating Broadway 2019-2020 Season on Tony Night On what would have been the 74th annual Tony Awards, let's celebrate the 41 shows of the Broadway 2019-2020 season, 25 of which actually opened.
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