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Best Straight Play on Broadway at the moment?

In your opinion, which straight play on Broadway is the best? I'll be in the city March 4-6 and have room to add a play to Curtains and Pirate Queen.

I saw Lieutenant of Inishmore and LOVED it. Saw Lousing Louie and thought it was okay. History Boys was great! Awake and Sing! was okay.

Also, any off-Broadway recommendations? I haven't seen any.

Thanks!

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

Updated On: 2/26/07 at 01:25 AM

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re: Best Straight Play on Broadway at the moment?

JOURNEY'S END is fantastic. If you like good theatre, this production is a must.
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Updated On: 2/26/07 at 07:11 AM

#6

re: Best Straight Play on Broadway at the moment?

TRANSLATIONS
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali
#7

re: Best Straight Play on Broadway at the moment?

I really liked TALK RADIO. Can't say that it's the best straight play on Broadway, though, because I haven't seen any others yet. But, I thoroughly enjoyed it and Schreiber gives a knockout performance.

Updated On: 2/26/07 at 10:27 AM

#9

re: Best Straight Play on Broadway at the moment?

My list all closed. ;-(
My favorite play which was on Broadway was "Little Dog Laughed"
Off Broadway they all closed:
"Southern Comforts"
"Regrets Only"
Still playing: "Mis Understanding Mammy"
#10

re: Best Straight Play on Broadway at the moment?

Journey's End, hands down. Translations is a close second.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#11

re: Best Straight Play on Broadway at the moment?

I concur with Journey's End.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#13

re: Best Straight Play on Broadway at the moment?

Can you give more info on "The Fever"?

"Straight Play" means no music/ no musical numbers as opposed to a Musical . So " The Little Dog Laughed" is actually a straight play , even though it dealt with a gay actor in the closet.

1 vote for "Journey's End " here

Updated On: 2/26/07 at 02:55 PM

#15

re: Best Straight Play on Broadway at the moment?

i agree. i won't be seeing "Translations" only due to monetary constraints but i would recommend "Journey's End". i also enjoyed "Radio Golf" when i saw it pre-Broadway

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