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everyday rapture

Everyday Rapture
Sherie Rene Scott wraps up the 2009-10 Broadway season and saves Roundabout's schedule with a moving and wry self-examination. More »

Collected Stories

Collected Stories
Despite two relatively recent Off-Broadway productions of the play, Linda Lavin breathes new life into Donald Margulies' two-hander about a veteran writer and her protégé. More »

Enron

Enron
Lucy Prebble's new play is like a big, shiny, beautifully wrapped package that once eagerly ripped open reveals a horde of Styrofoam peanuts through which you search vainly for the anticipated present. More »

Fences

Fences
Denzel Washington is magnificent in the role indelibly created by James Earl Jones, and the astonishing Viola Davis matches him every step of the way. It's a deeply moving, hugely satisfying evening of theater. More »

Promises, Promises

Promises, Promises
Inappropriate stars and hokey direction pretty much do in this revival of pop legend Burt Bacharach's only foray into musical theater. More »

Sondheim on Sondheim

Sondheim on Sondheim
Who wouldn't want to spend an evening with Broadway's musical-theater Shakespeare discussing his work and dishing about his experiences? More »

American Idiot

American Idiot
Though the book is skeletal, this loud and angry rock opera from Green Day breaks all the Broadway rules to create a moving portrait of rebels without causes and no place to go. More »

Million Dollar

Million Dollar Quartet
There’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on in Broadway’s latest jukebox musical, but the book ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog. More »

Addams Family

The Addams Family
This adaptation of Charles Addams' iconic cartoons is a musical all dressed up with no place to go. More »

Lend Me a Tenor

Lend Me a Tenor
Stanley Tucci's riotous staging of Ken Ludwig's "Lend Me a Tenor" provides an evening full of belly laughs, slapstick action, and projectiles aimed into the orchestra seats. More »

Red

Red
There's barely a cliché left unturned in John Logan's "Red," a two-hander about the late-in-life creative struggles of artist Mark Rothko, arriving direct from London's Donmar Warehouse. More »

Come Fly Away

Come Fly Away
Twyla Tharp channels the spirit of Sinatra in this dreamy, sexy romp. There's no plot, but with dancing like this, who cares? More »

All About Me

All About Me
This unlikely pairing of Michael Feinstein and Dame Edna Everage resembles a TV special from the 1960s—pleasant and mildly amusing but familiar and forgettable. 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 »

Next Fall

Next Fall
Geoffrey Nauffts' tender and compassionate play about a gay couple in conflict over religion loses intimacy in its Broadway transfer but none of its power to move. More »

a Behanding in Spokane

A Behanding in Spokane
Christopher Walken gives a bizarre, kooky, and captivating star turn in Martin McDonagh's blood-soaked black comedy. But don't look for anything deeper than a few gory laughs. More »

Miracle Worker

The Miracle Worker
The story of teacher Annie Sullivan unlocking the deaf-and-blind young Helen Keller from a world of darkness carries an elemental power that survives even director Kate Whoriskey's troubled staging. More »

Time Stands Still

Time Stands Still
In Donald Margulies' new drama "Time Stands Still," Laura Linney proves yet again she's one of our finest actors. Even when others are speaking, we are drawn back to Linney. More »

View from the Bridge

A View From the Bridge
Liev Schreiber and a brilliant cast bring new life to this oft-produced Arthur Miller tragedy, staged with stunning simplicity by Gregory Mosher. More »

Present Laughter

Present Laughter
Noel Coward's comic warhorse is hyped and coarsened, as if director Nicholas Martin doesn't trust American audiences to get Coward's very English humor. More »

A Little Night Music

A Little Night Music
While it's hard not to miss the romantic sweep and orchestral lushness of Harold Prince's glorious original production, Trevor Nunn's chamber version is a persuasive and entertaining account of a great American musical. More »

Race

Race
David Mamet's new play has plenty of sharp observations on the state of race relations in contemporary America, but it's more a political tract than a compelling drama. More »

White Christmas

Irving Berlin's White Christmas
Evergreen Berlin tunes and reliable Randy Skinner choreography are the brightest ornaments, but not everything on this holiday tree is worth celebrating. More »

Fela

Fela!
Director-choreographer Bill T. Jones has improved this dynamic political musical for a transfer to the Main Stem. But will it survive on star-driven Broadway? More »

In The Next Room

In the Next Room or the vibrator play
Sarah Ruhl's odd but somehow moving new play combines farce and drama for a challenging examination of women's sexuality in the repressive Victorian era. More »

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Industry Grosses

Rank Title Gross
1. WICKED $1,681,570
2. THE LION KING $1,624,092
3. THE ADDAMS FAMILY $1,272,985
4. PROMISES, PROMISES $1,202,446
5. MARY POPPINS $1,138,802
6. BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL $1,109,921
7. JERSEY BOYS $1,035,256
8. MEMPHIS $953,528
9. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $937,474
10. MAMMA MIA! $915,829

Week ending July 19.
Credit: The Broadway League

Rank Title Gross
1. INCEPTION $62,785,337
2. DESPICABLE ME $32,803,660
3. SORCERER'S APPRENTICE, THE $17,619,622
4. TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE, THE $13,420,480
5. TOY STORY 3 $11,998,276
6. GROWN UPS $9,911,016
7. LAST AIRBENDER, THE $7,755,153
8. PREDATORS $7,016,502
9. KNIGHT AND DAY $3,608,021
10. KARATE KID $2,288,707

Week ending July 19.

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