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December 24, 2019
Rumaan Alam
Cats Got Your Tongue
Tom Hooper's film is as absurd as the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, but at least it's given us something new to talk about.
February 1, 2016
Esther Breger
Fox’s Grease: Live made NBC’s live musicals look like amateur hour.
December 22, 2015
Adam Peck
Why do we tweet like we’re running out of time?
April 11, 2013
David Hajdu
Meet the Queen of 'Kamikaze Cabaret'
Burning down Lincoln Center with Meow Meow
March 2, 2013
Paul Berman
The Strange Power of Les Mis, the Book
Victor Hugo's Hard-nosed Melodrama
March 14, 1988
Robert Brustein
The Schlepic
Andrew Lloyd Weber's "The Phantom of the Opera" is the latest in a series of epic theater productions.

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