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NY Review: 'The Book of Grace'
Despite some compelling writing, excellent performances, and imaginative direction, Suzan-Lori Parks' new play never ... More »

London Review: 'Love Never Dies'
More than 23 years after "Phantom of the Opera" became a worldwide sensation, Andrew Lloyd Webber has delivered a seq... More »

Neighbors
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has arrived with a big old bang with “Neighbors,” a grandly theatrical, highly subversive, and... More »

Movie / TV Reviews

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Can the film really live up to such a buildup? Yes. Director Niels Arden Oplev has crafted a taut thriller that balances the details of a complex murder investigation with powerful character development. More »

Green zone

Green Zone
Somehow the Iraq movie canon keeps growing. Now Paul Greengrass enters the fray with "Green Zone," a film that is part action flick, part political thriller, and all fail. More »

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Alice in Wonderland
Not that there was any doubt that, when it came to restaging the 1865 Lewis Carroll classic for a 21st century sensibility, Tim Burton would be the man for the job. More »

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NY Theatre Reviews

Kiss Bessemer Goodbye

El beso del adiós (Kiss Bessemer Goodbye)
This by-the-books family drama has some laughs but not much else. More »

Happy in the Poorhouse

Happy in the Poorhouse
Derek Ahonen's new play shifts between camp and contemplation in an uneven take on the dream deferred. More »

Looped

Looped
Playwright Matthew Lombardo stretches a showbiz anecdote into a two-hour play. Fortunately, Valerie Harper delivers a tour de force performance and almost makes up for the show's thinness. More »

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LA Theatre Reviews

Rose Bowl Queens

The Rose Bowl Queens
This easygoing tuner by Barbara Hart and Cheryl Gimbel (collaborators on book, music, and lyrics) is set in a rural Texas bowling alley, the Rose Bowl, where beer-swillin', two-steppin', and romancin' take precedence over knocking down pins. More »

Liberty Inn

Liberty Inn: The Musical
The spirit of Molière farce is alive and well in Dakin Matthews and B. T. Ryback's saucy musical adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's French play "La Locandiera" ("The Landlady"). More »

Diviners

The Diviners
"The Diviners" is a lyrical fable set in bucolic America, a fascinating yarn that bristles with complex psychological undercurrents and a hint of Greek tragedy. More »

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Industry Grosses

Rank Title Gross
1. WICKED $1,337,882
2. THE LION KING $1,042,653
3. BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL $1,031,865
4. JERSEY BOYS $987,427
5. A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE $892,291
6. WEST SIDE STORY $808,694
7. A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $787,059
8. MAMMA MIA! $661,456
9. MARY POPPINS $641,692
10. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $608,166

Week ending March 07.
Credit: The Broadway League

Rank Title Gross
1. ALICE IN WONDERLAND $116,101,023
2. BROOKLYN'S FINEST $13,350,299
3. SHUTTER ISLAND $13,225,411
4. COP OUT $9,289,311
5. AVATAR $8,118,102
6. CRAZIES, THE $7,078,851
7. PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: LIGHTNING $5,124,623
8. VALENTINE'S DAY $4,154,110
9. CRAZY HEART $3,312,591
10. DEAR JOHN $2,782,079

Week ending March 07.

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