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That's the apparent lesson after Barack Obama sang a line of "Let's Stay Together" at a fundraiser and online sales of the Al Green original increased substantially. So begins Ben Brantley's nicely lyrical review of Nixon's performance in Wit. One...
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Last fall, in the NYT, Ben Brantley said that the play was "sporadically funny" and had this complaint in particular: But what makes "Chinglish" easy to follow is also what makes it hard to embrace with enthusiasm. It's so conscientious in leading us...
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Last fall, in the NYT, Ben Brantley said that the play was "sporadically funny" and had this complaint in particular: But what makes "Chinglish" easy to follow is also what makes it hard to embrace with enthusiasm. It's so conscientious in leading us...
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New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood’s essay on “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” follows an online discussion between the Times chief theater critic Ben Brantley and the Times chief classical music critic Anthony Tommasini about the...
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“We weren’t raised by a careerist.” Hallie’s acting honors include a 1993 Obie Award and the Tony nomination for “Dividing the Estate,” a turn Ben Brantley of the New York Times praised as “true comic genius.” Now that her father, who lived with Hallie...
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The company’s “Streetcar,” directed by Liv Ullmann and starring Ms. Blanchett as Blanche DuBois, was widely praised; reviewing its production at the BAM Harvey Theater in Brooklyn, Ben Brantley wrote in The New York Times , “Ms. Ullmann and Ms....
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Despite l’affair Sondheim, many people seem to enjoy it. Like my New York Times colleagues Ben Brantley and Anthony Tommasini, both of whom were generally disappointed in the production , I felt the new version, directed by Diane Paulus and featuring...
About Ben Brantley
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Ben Brantley (born October 30, 1954) is the chief theater critic of the New York Times. Full Article
