Ms. Houdyshell presents women as complex persons with a charm that gets everyone’s attention.
Michael V. Tueth
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‘Shuffle Along’ and the progress of African-Americans on Broadway
‘Shuffle Along’ was the first musical to feature an all-black cast.
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His Final Act: The Catholic connections of Tennessee Williams
The Catholic connections of Tennessee Williams
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“Brooklyn” is a gentle coming of age story that perfectly captures the immigrant experience.
“Brooklyn” vividly portrays the extreme homesickness of a young woman in a strange land.
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The horror of ‘Room’ is closer to a documentary than a fantasy
What gives “Room” its originality and power is its vision of a mother and a child literally clinging together to each in a situation beyond our imagining.
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A look at this season’s most promising films
With so many contenders, which movies will enter the canon of holiday gems?
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Man’s best friend takes center stage in ‘Sylvia’
A beloved pet comes between man and wife in the show’s Broadway revival
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Revisiting Happily Ever After: ‘Into the Woods’ shows the darker side of childhood classics.
“Anything can happen in the woods,” sings Prince Charming in the lavish adaptation of the multi-award winning Broadway hit, Into the Woods. Many years ago, the venerable literary scholar Northrop Frye expressed the same opinion about the forest to which the Athenian lovers flee to escape
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Show Thyself: Broadway satire at its best in ‘It’s Only a Play’
One of the most delightful forms of satire occurs when theater makes fun of itself. Some of the classics of the type include such hits as “The Royal Family,” Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman’s parody of the Barrymore family, the reigning stars of Broadway at the time; Kaufman and