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http://www.time.com/time/speci...3992_1944005,00.html


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The Top 10 Everything of 2009TIME charts the highs and lows of the past year in 50 wide-ranging lists
The Top 10 Everything of 2009 > Top 10 Plays and Musicals

2. A Steady Rain

By RICHARD ZOGLIN Tuesday, Dec. 08, 2009


Joan marcus

Casting a couple of big movie stars in a Broadway play can cut both ways. Audiences may stand in line for tickets, but critics can put on their scowling "show-me" faces — as many did for Keith Huff's one-act play, which cast Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman as a pair of Chicago cops in crisis. Both stars were excellent, but they were wonderfully served by Huff's taut, tough-minded script, which takes potentially clichéd material — the moral challenges faced by cops on the urban mean streets — and makes it fresh and compelling. Want a better example of Broadway stars working hard to disguise an empty play? See (or rather, don't see) God of Carnage.


Hope TIME can influence TONY voters Wink


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I was just about to post this, Jo. The producers of ASR posted Time's review in its entirety at the theater, so the play was a pretty good bet to make the mag's top list for the year. Congrats, ASR.

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