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First Breeze of Summer

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The New Electric Ballroom Edinburg

 

August 28, 2008: History repeated itself at the Festival Fringe that drew to a conclusion here on Monday. For the second year in a row . . .


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*(At this Opening, the role of the critic, usually played by Ben Brantley, will be played by Charles Isherwood.)

 


 
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Hamlet

 

August 26, 2008: As dusk fell on a cool, mildly humid late summer’s eve, an orange horizon glowed above the Hudson. Hamlet bid Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to take heed. . .


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*(At this Opening, the role of the critic, usually played by Ben Brantley, will be played by Andy Webster.)

 
 
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Cymbeline

 

August 25, 2008: Nature takes its course in high style in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s inspiriting production of “Cymbeline.” I’m talking about a lofty, orderly and beneficent Nature, the sort that warrants. . .


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First Breeze of Summer

 

August 22, 2008: Her teenage grandson, who has all the shortsightedness of youth, finds it hard to grasp that the gentle, Bible-quoting Lucretia Edwards was a seriously sensuous woman back in the day. . . .


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Hattie Black National Theater

 

August 21, 2008: What does it mean that the first African-American to win an Academy Award did so playing a loyal slave in a pulpy paean to the plantation South? What was it like to be . . .


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*(At this Opening, the role of the critic, usually played by Ben Brantley, will be played by Rachel Saltz.)

 
 
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Desir

 

August 19, 2008: The freshest pretzels in New York can now be found at the South Street Seaport. They are firm, flavorful, salty, twisted into dizzying shapes and meant to be devoured, for sure, but only with the eyes . . .


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Absinthe

 

August 18, 2008: Absinthe, the number one NYC summer event since 2006, will once again take New York by storm with a brand new line up of talent from the seediest and sexiest cabaret . . .


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*(At this Opening, the role of the critic, usually played by Ben Brantley, will be played by Rachel Saltz.)

 
 
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Hair Off-Broadway

 

August 8, 2008: It is deep summer in the late 1960s in Central Park, and nobody is keeping off the grass. A heady concentration of anarchic youth has come out to play, flooding the . . .


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