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Cate Blanchett Blows Up Broadway: Review of ‘The Present’

Dream On

Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh are the firecracker, should-be-perfect match in Andrew Upton’s fast and funny adaptation of Chekhov’s Platonov on Broadway.

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LISA TOMASETTI

Yes, that really is Cate Blanchett on top of a table dancing to thunderous pop music. Yes, she has got a gun. Yes, she will fire it into the eaves of the theater.

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