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She was one of my absolute favorite critics when she was working at New York magazine! So excited! Hopefully they fired that awful Hughes woman!

How the heck are they going to justify placing Grande in SUPPORTING actress this time round?? It is clearly Glinda's film and though I didn't measure, it certainly seems Grande actually had more screen time than Erivo!

I don't even like All My Sons and these reviews are sending me to London in January. I mean, there are a bunch of other things I'm going to go see too, but All My Sons was not on the list until today.

How long is Dez Duron contracted in Maybe Happy Ending? Probably not a big enogh name though. But I'd really like a theater name as opposed to a pop star in the role. Tony Yazbeck is probably too old...

MemorableUserName said: "Holdren in Vulture is mostly (?) positive. Or more positive than not?

I’m Not a Regular Mom, I’m a Cool Mom: Robert Icke Does Oedipus

Robert Icke, known for dramatic remakings of ancient plays, turns to Sophocles' 'Oedipus,' and his production, while not flawless, is vivid and potent.

"In this Oedipus—premiered in Dutch at Toneelgroep and then remounted in the West End with its current stars, Lesley Manville and Mark Strong, as the fated mother-and-son/wife-and-husband at its center—Icke puts an eleventh-hour monologue roughly the size and weight of a city bus in Jocasta’s mouth. It’s where we learn her story in all its graphic detail, and though Manville is one hell of an actor—utterly at ease in one moment, ferocious in the next, destroyed in the one after that—even she can’t quite mask the overwriting, the authorial frisson over putting this character through really bad things, but, you know, in order to demonstrate that they’re really bad.

It’s a shame, because this Oedipus, when it tries a little less hard, is also full of potency. Manville and Strong crackle together —their chemistry is steamy and genuine and, in some of the production’s best moments, after all terrible secrets have been revealed, so is their body-wracking devastation."
 

Thank you Sara. This play is SOOO overwritten!!! And boy does it try too hard!

 

chernjam said: "I'm legitimately puzzled how the NY Times labeled it a "critics pick" while the rest of the reviews were so mixed to bad. I realize that these things are subjective (for example, I'm not a fan of Ragtime, but I can completely understand why people were raving about it and why it receives such creative accolades), but this really stands out as bizarre."

Because Hughes is an even worse critic than Jesse.

 

Weird. My London friend who gets tickets for us for my theatre trips there had no trouble getting tickets. Maybe he belongs to one of those "Friends" groups; they seem associated with a number of off West End Theatre's that offer seats early, not unlike Lincoln Center.

I wonder if people will respond to Giant differently now than they did at the Royal Court and West End? When I saw it there people were very pro-Israel but that seems to be changing.  The theme/denoument of the story (semi-spoiler) is the then common trope that if you're anti-Israel your secretly really anti-Semitic, which I think has been somewhat debunked, at least here in the United States...

NormasTurban said: "She absolutely did mention it explicitly in London. It’s literally the point."

Yes, I can definitely back you up and say, at least at The Kiln, she did definitely sleep with Sam Tutty's father!

I actually saw the show way back at the Kiln Theater off-West End and Sam Tutty blew me away! I was not as thrilled with the female lead. ...Who I think went to the West End with it, but the Broadway actress is different. Has anyone seen both actresses and can compare?

OhHiii said: "The Baker's Wife would like to have a word..."

I sorta left that one out as it is in the process of re-evaluated in the lovely London and now CSC production.  But you're right, originally a big flop.  But the big three + Magic Show prove the man can write a showtune and had way more hits than flops. 

EmceeHammer said: "But… Schwartz still isn’t a name brand. His track record is spotty. Maybe this season is his time to shine? Will he finally win a (competitive) Tony?"

I fail to see how his Broadway record could be "spotty".  I think "Children of Eden" is the only show of his (not counting his opera) that can be counted a failure.  The rest have been modest to huge stage hits. And his films have been successful as well!

I was in the minority, but I really enjoyed deBessonne's direction of Uncle Vanya.  I was less thrilled with her Encores Ragtime, but it being Encores I knew it would be put together quickly.  I'm glad to hear she has dug deeper and worked with Cassie and the Lincoln Center production will be a much more elevated production. 

It's nice to see Corden getting these reviews. After the hatred that was thrown his way toward the end of his American late night career, one could forget what a marvelous stage performer he is.