BEN BRANTLEY
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Stephen Sondheim Doesn’t Want to Be Your Savior
Sondheim has been canonized, with revivals and revues everywhere. It’s a development he might have greeted with deep ambivalence.
Onstage, Michael Gambon’s Depth Transcended the Unspoken
The actor conveyed the gravitational force of mortality, tugging the men he played so commandingly toward a void beyond meaning, our critic writes.
Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez Star in ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ on Broadway
Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe are the heart of the tear-streaked “Merrily We Roll Along” Broadway revival.
Glenda Jackson, an Unnervingly Energizing Presence at Every Age
“I had been prepared to be awed, intimidated, even terrified,” Ben Brantley writes of meeting the actress in person five years ago.
The Cathartic Value of Dame Edna’s Extravaganzas of Ego
Audiences were eager to humbly suffer the stinging quips tossed out by the towering figure that was Barry Humphries’s creation.
‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Was Sondheim’s Big Flop. Can She Save It?
Maria Friedman’s productions of the show in London and Boston were hits. Now a starry cast is preparing to open her latest staging Off Broadway.
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