Critical Essay by John Simon
[In Grey Gardens the Maysles concentrate their attention] on a mother who is, at the very least, eccentric, and a daughter who is, to put it mildly, spaced out, and who h...
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Critical Essay by Joel E. Siegel
[Grey Gardens, the] portrait of a complex love-hate relationship, is compelling, but exposing these two peculiar, rather pathetic women to public scrutiny is somehow ...
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Critical Essay by Charles Michener
Grey Gardens [is] an extraordinarily crafty invasion into the lives of Edith Beale and her daughter Edie, better known as Jacqueline Onassis's impoverished a...
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Critical Essay by Marjorie Rosen
["Grey Gardens"] is a film allowing us an extraordinary glimpse into [Edith and Edie Beale's] relationship, a glimpse which cuts as sharply as a ...
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Spring Awakenings was this morning's big winner when the nominees for 2007 Tony Awards were announced.
Here's a handy round-up of early observations:
Kristin Chenoweth was robbed!
Kristin Chenoweth...
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"LoveMusik," a look at the relationship between composer Kurt Weill and actress Lotte Lenya, received 12 Drama Desk nominations Thursday, honoring the best of the 2006-2007 New York theater season....
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The Transom popped into the Guggenheim on Monday night for a preview of Grey Gardens, the musical, with a book by Doug Wright--of I Am My Own Wife fame (undeserved, but don't get us started on that...
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The new Broadway musical Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Greif, is a tale of two acts. After last season’s successful run at Playwrights Horizons, the show’s creators tried to solve t...
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The new Broadway musical Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Greif, is a tale of two acts. After last season’s successful run at Playwrights Horizons, the show’s creators tried to solve t...
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Competition is fierce on Broadway this year among Tony Award seekers for best musical as Mary Poppins goes head-to-head with Jackie O.'s relatives and a rock musical takes on a whodunit for nominat...
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Suspense will be the most likely casualty at Sunday's 2007 Tony Awards when Broadway celebrates the best of the theater season."The Coast of Utopia," Tom Stoppard's mammoth, three-part examination ...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton is "distraught"
at the prospect of going to jail for continuing to drive after her
licence was suspended for drunk driving...
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New York (dpa) - The musical Spring Awakening and the Tom Stoppard
play The Coast of Utopia were heralded as the best of Broadway this
year as they dominated the Tony Awards...
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The Grey Hamptons
The Times' profile of Lincoln Center's rejuvenation hits upon the alluringly wider sidewalks, the historic significance, Eero Saarinen, and the conflict between the "tall fescu...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
Tony Award Nominations: The Chenoweth Files
