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‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ review: Paul Mescal sizzles, Patsy Ferran amazes in 4-star revival

Gladiator II” star Paul Mescal onstage in Brooklyn. And, as brutish Stanley Kowalski, the part made famous by an early-career Marlon Brando, the 29-year-old Irishman does not disappoint. Mescal is a human wrecking ball as he snarls and barrels around the boxing-ring stage like it’s a sweaty tribal ritual.But while the crowd has come for Paul, at the end of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, which opened Tuesday night at BAM, they leave raving about Patsy.That’s Patsy Ferran, the unbelievable 35-year-old British actress who’s been lavished with acclaim in London for years, but is not yet well known stateside.

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Broadway ticket prices are completely out of control — Denzel Washington’s show is charging $900 for just Row M

Othello” starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, which sold a mammoth $2.63 million in tickets last week over just seven performances. That’s right — a Shakespeare play took in $1 million more than Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop history hit, and it managed the feat during the post-holiday/pre-spring break period that’s usually the slow season for Broadway.But this is not a triumphant victory for the classics. It’s a war on your wallet.People are paying as much as $921 — that’s $79 less than $1000 — to sit as far back as Row M.

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Oscar winner Brendan Fraser drops out of Off-Broadway play less than a month before performances start

Instagram statement read. “You might have seen Paul Sparks at Signature in Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo back in 2018, and we can’t wait to welcome him back to the Center,” Signature Theatre added.The Post has reached out to Fraser’s rep for comment.Fraser was set to star as Jerry opposite “Sense 8” actor Brian J.

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‘Romeo + Juliet’ review: ‘Heartstopper’ star Kit Connor shines in hollow Broadway show

& Juliet” has been running for two years. And on Thursday night, seven blocks away at Circle in the Square Theatre opened its companion piece — “Romeo &.”OK, director Sam Gold’s, nntz-nntz, party-hardy production of William Shakespeare’s tragedy is actually called “Romeo + Juliet,” swiping the youthful “+” from Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.

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Broadway’s ‘Something Rotten’ gets reinvented by Canada’s Stratford Festival — and it’s hysterical

the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada, an easy trip for New Yorkers.And before this year, one would have had to search far and wide to find “Something Rotten” on any theater lover’s list of favorites.Talk about “all’s well that ends well” — the show of Shakespearean shenanigans has a sitcom’s supply of belly laughs. Really, it’s a north-of-the-border reinvention.What the Broadway musical needed, it turns out, was to schlep 500 miles away from 42nd Street to a 71-year-old festival that made its reputation with stagings of the Bard’s plays.Since the mid-aughts, Stratford’s musicals, earthier than ours, have gotten better and better.

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Fleetwood Mac producer sues Tony Award-winning Broadway play that Brad Pitt owns the film rights to

Stereophonic,” this year’s Tony Award winner for Best Play, and its landlord, the Shubert Organization, are being sued by writers Steven Stiefel and Ken Caillat, the Fleetwood Mac sound engineer/producer, who claim the popular show ripped off their 2012 book, “Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album.”The pissed-off pair filed their lawsuit on Oct. 1 in Manhattan federal court.

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‘Hills of California’ review: A cutthroat new stage mother on Broadway

Two hours and 45 minutes with one intermission. At the Broadhurst Theater, 235 W 44th St.Perhaps the city should rename West 44th Street Stage Mother Way.Between 7th and 8th Avenues at the Majestic Theatre, Audra McDonald will soon begin playing that most ferocious of performer parents, Mama Rose, in a revival of the musical “Gypsy.” And next door at the Broadhurst, where Jez Butterworth’s new play “The Hills of California” opened on Sunday night, lives her stern British counterpart, Veronica Webb.Like Rose, single mom Veronica forces her four daughters in Blackpool, England, to learn the ins and outs of show business in pursuit of finally escaping their shabby lives spent running a dingy hotel.

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17 full plays you can listen to on Audible right now, per reviews

Pulitzer Prize winners to Tony-award winning plays performed by the Tony winners themselves, Audible — the audiobook service from Amazon — has a robust collection of theater available to listen to right now. All of these recordings were performed by full casts, too, so you can fully immerse yourself in the storytelling and the unique worlds of every production.If you can’t make it to New York to catch the Broadway premiere, you can even listen to David Henry Hwang’s “Yellow Face” with the current Broadway lead Daniel Dae Kim.

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Broadway and Off-Broadway: Fall Arts Preview 2024

Metro Weekly will be on the aisle to offer adulation, admonishment, or a combination of both.The Roommate — Playwright Neil Simon perfected the scenario of two entirely different personalities sharing one domestic space with his enduring comedy, The Odd Couple. Jen Writer Silverman updates the story with a feminine twist, this time with two heavy hitters of stage and screen: Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow. To nobody’s surprise, LuPone plays a Bronx bad ass while Farrow is a sheltered innocent from the Midwest.

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‘Job’ review: A millennial cracks in tense Broadway two-hander

Promising Young Woman” and “Saltburn.” Both scribes are able to take relevant issues and wrap them in entertaining, sexy packages. And, for much of their intellectual stripteases, you’re not watching what you think you’re watching.There are clues dotted along director Michael Herwitz’s staging that suggest something is amiss.

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The sensational ‘Oh, Mary!’ proves you can’t predict a Broadway hit