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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 »

Looped
Playwright Matthew Lombardo stretches a showbiz anecdote into a two-hour play. Fortunately, Valerie Harper delivers a... 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 »

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 »

Living in a Musical

Living in a Musical
This benighted production proves to be a work of gob-smacking incompetence. 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 $1,505,286
2. THE ADDAMS FAMILY $1,192,213
3. THE LION KING $1,191,289
4. BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL $1,124,274
5. JERSEY BOYS $1,052,412
6. WEST SIDE STORY $945,557
7. A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE $895,598
8. A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $803,632
9. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $781,329
10. MARY POPPINS $760,371

Week ending March 14.
Credit: The Broadway League

Rank Title Gross
1. ALICE IN WONDERLAND $62,714,076
2. GREEN ZONE $14,309,295
3. SHE'S OUT OF MY LEAGUE $9,775,278
4. SHUTTER ISLAND $8,144,133
5. REMEMBER ME $8,089,139
6. OUR FAMILY WEDDING $7,629,862
7. AVATAR $6,526,421
8. BROOKLYN'S FINEST $4,471,932
9. COP OUT $4,268,068
10. CRAZIES, THE $3,680,940

Week ending March 14.

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