My Fair Lady

Beaumont Theater - Lincoln Center
in ,

4 out of 5 Stars

Let’s get this straight; we’re talking about a Broadway production of My Fair Lady staged at Lincoln Center, directed by Bartlett Sher, featuring the original 1956 orchestration with a full orchestra. If the avid theatergoer finds this anything other than an extraordinary theatrical outing, perhaps you’ve picked the wrong field of entertainment. My Fair Lady is woven into the very foundation of so many Baby Boomers who grew up in a household with an appreciation for musical theater.

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Oslo

Lincoln Center Theater - Vivian Beaumont
in

Guest Review

Oslo, directed by Bartlett Sher, is a very interesting play. It examines the efforts of a few daring individuals who challenged conventional (and ineffective) diplomacy in 1993, creating a secret back channel through which representatives of Israel and the PLO - entities that until that point had either denied the other’s legitimacy or promised its annihilation to meet and negotiate.   They introduced the concept of gradualism versus totalism, fostered by the then-novel concept that the negotiators should actually know each other as human beings. 

Does that make it sound dry?  It does sound dry.  Yet however improbably, the play is riveting.

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