James Lapine News
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Vanessa Redgrave plays an elderly Polish Jew in “The Revisionist,” saved as a child from the Nazis by her doomed family’s Catholic nanny.
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“Merrily We Roll Along,” which opens the “Encores!” series Wednesday night at New York City Center, features one of Stephen Sondheim’s catchiest scores, full of songs that have gone on to become standards.
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Beware the child who says “Aw, gee!” with a plaintive sigh. There’s cunning at work behind those words that can reduce even a hard-shell capitalist like Oliver Warbucks to mush.
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The first words sung in “Into the Woods” are “I wish.”
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Picasso’s “Rape of the Sabines” is now on view at the Guggenheim Museum along with more than 115 of his other works using a severely restricted palette.
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Commanding new voices and rising young actors competed with revivals for attention in 2012. These were the best of them, on and off Broadway.
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Most Broadway failures limp offstage, never to be seen again except as posters on the Wall of Flops at Joe Allen’s Theater District canteen.
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“The swag is this,” said Jeff Barker, Bank of America Corp.’s New York City market president, opening his arms to encompass all the pleasures at opening night of “Into the Woods,” the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical.
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Stars (Katie Holmes, Al Pacino) and other bold-face names (Daddy Warbucks!) mingle with the unfamiliar as Broadway and off-Broadway kick into post-Labor Day high gear.
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Snoop Dogg, the Black Keys and TV on the Radio will have hip-hop, rock and reggae fans flocking to Randall’s Island for the first Catalpa NYC festival. More than 40 acts perform during the two-day event.
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