The Royal Family
Description
Watching the velvet-robed, octogenarian Rosemary Harris glide like a swan over the glistening pond of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber’s 1927 farce about theater people, one might be tempted to mutter: They just don’t make them like that anymore. Felicitously, Harris shares the stage with a living rebuke to such pessimism: the divine Jan Maxwell, who plays Harris’s daughter with the sparkle, bubble, sweetness and bite of properly aged and chilled champagne. Doug Hughes’s revival offers a splendid spread of old-fashioned Broadway pleasures, from John Lee Beatty’s sumptuously overstuffed set to the luxurious casting of minor roles.—AF
When
Today 2pm, 8pm
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Tomorrow 2pm
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Tue 7pm
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Wed 2pm, 8pm
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Thu, Fri 8pm
Ongoing through Dec 13.