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  Robe Helps Spin Skulerevyen at Det Vestnorske Teateret
Lighting designer Jon Eirik Sira thought outside the box when tackling an interesting visual conundrum for Det Vestnorske Teateret in Bergen's recent and acclaimed production of Skulerevyen (School Review). The show ...
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Theatre in Review: The Wasp (Little Engine Theater)/The Lucky Ones (Boomerang Theatre Company)
Fraught female relationships are the theme of the week, with two different plays focusing on connections that are, to put it mildly, freighted with considerable baggage. In each case, the situations have life-or-death implications. ...
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Theatre in Review: Little Bear Ridge Road (Booth Theatre)
Like many of Samuel D. Hunter's plays, Little Bear Ridge Road is a miniature that contains multitudes. Focusing on a trio of characters in his home state of Idaho, a stretch of the Northwest he has made his personal ...
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Theatre in Review: Liberation (James Earl Jones Theatre)
The good news: Liberation -- to my mind, the best new American play of last season -- has transferred to Broadway in tiptop shape. The even better news: It has arrived with its superb cast intact. And, eight months after it ...
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Theatre in Review: Endgame (Druid/Irish Arts Center)
Garry Hynes' production of Samuel Beckett's classic study of stasis, oppression, and (quite possibly) the end of the world derives much of its effect from the yawning gap between the characters' grandiloquent delivery and ...
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Theatre in Review: Did You Eat? (Ma-Yi Theater/Public Theater)
The solo piece Did You Eat? is the first entry in Zoe Kim's proposed trilogy about hunger, and it begins on a wryly amusing note, as she translates her mother's "love language," in which deeper concerns are shrouded ...
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Theatre in Review: Let's Love! (Atlantic Theater Company)/Dreadful Episodes (59E59)
We've had a run on short-form theatre this week, with two attractions that combine playlets and/or vignettes with musical interludes. I hate to use the "R" word; let's call them revue-adjacent. In each case, such flexible formats provide ...
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Theatre in Review: Playing Shylock (Polonsky Shakespeare Center)
Playing Shylock is a rare (maybe the first) example of theatrical autofiction, a genre that comes with built-in issues: The great character actor Saul Rubinek is out to settle numerous scores -- involving political ...
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Theatre in Review: Other (Greenwich House Theatre)
Other begins on Ari'el Stachel's evening of triumph, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in The Band's Visit. The after-party is a nightmare, however, with the actor ...
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Theatre in Review: Not Ready for Prime Time (The Newman Mills Theater at The Robert W. Wilson MCC)
There are only two things wrong with Not Ready for Prime Time, a comic drama about the birth of Saturday Night Live: It isn't very dramatic and isn't very funny.
Indeed, a situation that should be rife with tension ...
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Theatre in Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Resident Acting Company/Sheen Center)
Whatever else one can say about this staging of William Shakespeare's evergreen comedy, it has an amusing concept. This is A Midsummer Night's Dream "as told by the Mechanicals." The action unfolds in Peter Quince's ...
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Theatre in Review: Ragtime (Lincoln Center Theater/Vivian Beaumont Theater)
If Lear DeBessonet's new production of this modern musical classic makes anything clear, it is that Ragtime is our time. Terrence McNally's book wrangles E. L. Doctorow's seemingly unadaptable novel, creating ...
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Theatre in Review: Oh Happy Day! (Public Theater)
When was the last time you saw a guardian angel onstage? In Oh Happy Day!, playwright Jordan E. Cooper, a generous soul, supplies no fewer than three. Their names are Glory Divine, Holy Divine, and Mighty Divine. ("No ...
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Theatre in Review: Italian American Reconciliation (The Flea Theater)
At the Flea the other night, I kept thinking of Billie Dawn's famous line from Born Yesterday: "Are you one of those talkers, or would you be interested in a little action?" Nobody in Italian-American Reconciliation ...
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Theatre in Review: Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God (Playwrights Horizons)
Frances Reinhardt, the hurricane eye of Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God, is skilled at harvesting lucrative popular art from her embarrassing and/or traumatic past. Having fled her evangelical upbringing in ...
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Theatre in Review: Crooked Cross (Mint Theater Company/Theatre Row)
In case you're wondering, a crooked cross is a swastika, the red flag signaling a country's descent into hell. It's also the title of a novel, the first in a trilogy, by the British writer Sally Carson, about a German family in ...
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Theatre in Review: Waiting for Godot (Hudson Theatre)/Krapp's Last Tape (NYU Skirball)
How do you like your Samuel Beckett? Frothy and starry, or straight, no chaser? In New York this week, you have a choice: A slicked-up revival of Waiting for Godot, starring Hollywood's once and future Bill and Ted,
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Theatre in Review: Caroline (MCC Theater)
One of the greatest pleasures the theatre offers is when a new writer appears, offering a fresh, distinctive voice. So it is with Preston Max Allen, author of Caroline, which, in David Cromer's tightly ...
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Theatre in Review: This Much I Know (59E59)
This Much I Know begins with Lukesh, a psychology professor with a specialty in cognition, lecturing about the many ways, accurate and not, we process information -- or, as he puts it, "This is how we move through the world ...
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Theatre in Review: Torera (WP Theater)
In Torera, the playwright Monet Hurst-Mendoza wants us to root for her heroine, Elena, in her struggle to become a bullfighter, but she never explains why. Instead, the author spends a great deal of time setting up a ...
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Theatre in Review: Are the Bennet Girls OK? (Bedlam/West End Theatre)
In a word, no. Frankly, the Bennet Girls -- each of whom, in Emily Breeze's new play, lives on the edge of a conniption fit -- could use a nice, long vacation, a grand tour, perhaps, where they might run into some real husband ...
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Theatre in Review: Art (Music Box Theatre)
Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris are having a high old time on stage at the Music Box these nights. You might, too. Depending.
Yasmina Reza unleashed a commercial juggernaut with Art< ...
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Theatre in Review: And Then We Were No More (La MaMa)
If you ever need someone to inject some blood into a faltering play, Elizabeth Marvel is your woman. Cast in And Then We Were No More as a lawyer reluctantly taking a capital punishment case -- the time is the ...
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Theatre in Review: The Honey Trap (Irish Repertory Theatre)
Much of the considerable suspense onstage at the Irish Rep these nights comes from the sight of Michael Hayden trying to control his volcanic rage. Cast as Dave, a retired member of the British Army who has never recovered from ...
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Theatre in Review: Punch (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
In Punch, the quality of mercy is not strained; it's a superpower. James Graham's astonishing, heartbreaking new play, based on a real-life incident, arrives at a time when half the world seems consumed with ...
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Dripping Springs High School in Texas Upgrades Lighting System with ETC
Located in Texas, Dripping Springs High School produces theatre productions throughout the school year for the community, while also competing in University Interscholastic League competitions such as one-act play and theatrical design. ...
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Theatre in Review: The Other Americans (Public Theater)
John Leguizamo, for thirty-five years the master of the funny, frank, often scalding solo performance piece, has now committed the most radical act of his career, penning an old-fashioned drama out of the Arthur Miller playbook. ...
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Theatre in Review: Mexodus (Minetta Lane Theatre)
Even as the current administration tries to rewrite American history as a long march from a rosy past to a glorious future, the people behind Mexodus will have none of that. Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson ...
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Theatre in Review: Weather Girl (St. Ann's Warehouse)
Brian Watkins hasn't solved the climate crisis, but in the solo show Weather Girl, he has found theatrically potent way of writing about it, which is no small thing. His vessel in this endeavor is Stacey Gross, one ...
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Theatre in Review: This is Not a Drill (York Theater Company)
One of the great difficulties in writing of This is Not a Drill is characterizing it. Is it Come from Away with nuclear fallout? Close but not quite. The White Lotus meets The Love Boat? You're getting ...
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Theatre in Review: Saturday Church (New York Theatre Workshop)
The new musical at NYTW is a tale of two churches, and alas, for the purposes of drama, one is far more interesting than the other. That's one problem facing Saturday Church. Clutter is another: Expanding Damon Cardasis
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Theatre in Review: The Essentialisn't (HERE)
"Can you be Black and not perform?" That's an interesting question, especially since it is being asked onstage by Eisa Davis, who is playing -- what? Herself? A version of herself? A well-honed Eisa Davis persona? We're not even ...
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Theatre in Review: The Wild Duck (Theatre for a New Audience)
We're in the middle of a full-tilt Henrik Ibsen revival thanks to recent starry stagings of A Doll's House, Ghosts, and An Enemy of the People, which have yielded, to put it mildly, varying results. But leave it to ...
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Theatre in Review: House of McQueen (The Mansion at Hudson Yards)
House of McQueen is, in many ways, a beautifully designed production, evoking the glamour and tumult of its title character's life and times: Jason Ardizzone-West's sleek minimalist box set serves as a canvas for Br ...
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Theatre in Review: This is Government (59E59)
Talk about ripped from the headlines: It's another hot summer Monday in Washington, and in the office of Congressman Bochman, a staff assistant and two interns are wrapping up a busy day of collecting press clippings and logging phone ...
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Theatre in Review: The Brothers Size (The Shed)
Brotherly love functions as an embrace and a manacle in The Brothers Size. This wrenching tale, part of the trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays (last seen in New York at the Public Theater in 2009), centers on a triangle ...
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Theatre in Review: The Whole of Time (A/Park Productions at The Brick)
The Glass Menagerie is a kind of cat's-cradle, designed to ensnare its four characters in an inextricable web of responsibilities and resentments. Not for nothing is Tennessee Williams' alternate, one-act version of his ...
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PRG Supports Cory Pattak in Transfer of The Great Gatsby to The London Coliseum
The multi award-winning new musical, The Great Gatsby, which opened at New York's Broadway Theatre in April 2024, successfully transferred to London's West End at the London Coliseum in April 2025 for a limited summer run that ...
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Theatre in Review: Pericles: A Public Works Concert Experience (Cathedral of St. John the Divine)
Following the gala reopening of the Delacorte Theatre with a festive Twelfth Night, the Public Theater takes us to church, and what a glorious, roof-rattling service it is. Pericles, Prince of Tyre, which William ...
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Robe at PLASA 2025 - The Preview
Robe will have a big presence at the PLASA London expo in Olympia next week, on Stand A70, and will launch six new products: T3 Profile, iPAINTE LTM, SVOPATT Classic, Footsie1 MC and Footsie2 MC, and the PowerDolly. ...
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Theatre in Review: Twelfth Night (New York Shakespeare Festival/Delacorte Theater)
To celebrate the return of the Delacorte Theater after its top-to-bottom renovation, the New York Shakespeare Festival is throwing a party. It's a chic bash, complete with a cheeky set design, an onstage string quartet, contemporary ...
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