Theater June 2015
Unholy spirits
On Ghosts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Clinton the Musical at New World Stages, Wolf Hall Parts One and Two at the Winter Garden Theatre.
Will Keen, Billy Howle, Lesley Manville in Ghosts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Photo Credit: Stephanie Berger.
As Hillary Clinton declared herself a candidate for the presidency in 2016, the New York stage echoed with a witty synchronicity: Three productions that opened within a few days of her campaign launch provided arch commentary on it. In the lavish Broadway play Wolf Hall Parts One and Two, Off-Broadway’s frolicsome satire Clinton the Musical, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, the boards resounded with the footsteps of adulterous charmers, lupine...
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