Broadhurst Theatre,New York
The hacks are cynical, the laughs regular, or the Hecht and MacArthur play a familiar delight. But it is Lane’s entrance as Walter Burns that really stops the pressIf ever an actor was the theatrical equivalent of a banner headline,that actor is Nathan Lane. Lane, who plays the bellowing editor Walter Burns, and arrives a dinky more than halfway through the revival of The Front Page at the Broadhurst Theatre,splashed across the stage like a 72-point font. His jubilant (extremely joyful), giant performance injects a cantankerous (irritating, difficult) vitality into Jack O’Brien’s otherwise pleasant and respectful revival.
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Source: theguardian.com