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  Theatre in Review: This American Wife
Given its ubiquity in the pop culture world, it was inevitable that somebody would take on Bravo's The Real Housewives of...franchise. Having once tried (and failed) to silence the Countess LuAnn de Lesseps at a Broadway ...
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Theatre in Review: Herding Cats (OHenry Productions/Stellar)
As a good portion of the world waits to return to work, playwright Lucinda Coxon wants to remind you that life on the job can be a soul-destroying business -- even if you don't mortally embarrass yourself with inappropriate behavior ...
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Theatre in Review: Marilyn Maye: Broadway, the Maye Way (54 Premieres)
Marilyn Maye is 93 years old; I hope someday to have her vitality. Proving that age is just a number, the cabaret legend's sassy, good-times persona remains undimmed; wherever she is, so is the party. It may be true that the ...
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Theatre in Review: Jeremy Jordan: Carry On (54 Premieres)
For this streamed concert, Jeremy Jordan arrives at the nightclub Feinstein's/54 Below dragging his baggage, and I'm not kidding. It's in the form of a rollerboard filled with objects from his past; each is a talisman and a song cue ...
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Theatre in Review: Vancouver (Ma-Yi Theater Company)
If you're looking for a distinctly different online theatre experience, consider this effort of the Ma-Yi Theater Company, presented in association with Chicago Puppet Theater Festival. Ordinarily, the words "puppet theater" have your ...
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Theatre in Review: We Have to Hurry (Broadway on Demand)
It was, I suppose, inevitable. Dorothy Lyman's new play is -- at least, in my experience -- the first COVID romantic comedy. We Have to Hurry is set in Cedar Key, Florida and the potential lovers are Margaret and Gil ...
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Theatre in Review: Little Gem: A Performance on Screen (Irish Repertory Theatre)
For its latest online offering, the Irish Rep's Elaine Murphy's detailed portrait of one Irish family's matrilineal line glimpsed in extremis. If the three main characters aren't women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, it's not ...
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Theatre in Review: Islands of Contentment (The Tank)
As titles go, Islands of Contentment is either a misnomer or dripping with irony, for this collection of brief monologues by Dipti Bramhandkar highlights a cast of the edgy and unfulfilled, most of them stewing in the agony ...
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Theatre in Review: shadow/land (The Public Theater/Public Play Now)
In this spring roiled by police violence and unrest in the streets, Erika Dickerson-Despenza's audio play draws on New Orleans' rich and terrible history to present another angle on American racism. The central event in shadow/lan ...
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Theatre in Review: John Cullum: An Accidental Star
I am not young, but I never have known a time without John Cullum. At a tender age I heard him on the Camelot cast album, dallying with Julie Andrews in "Then You May Take Me to the Fair." From there, the list of indelible ...
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Theatre in Review: Julius Caesar (Shakespeare@ Home)
If you're tired of online Zoom readings -- and who isn't? - take a break with Shakespeare@ Home, an intrepid troupe dedicated to reviving the great days of radio theatre. The concept is simple and elegant: Assemble a group of ...
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Theatre in Review: The Domino Heart (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble Online)
Matthew Edison's play is a triptych of sorrow, an account of human hearts critically wounded by the withdrawal of love. A trio of characters are linked by a heart -- a real, physical organ -- that suddenly becomes available for a ...
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Theatre in Review: Under the Radar, Part II (Public Theater)
The latest edition of the Under the Radar Festival, the celebration of avant-garde performance, features two attractions based on music-making, each of which produces strikingly different results. ...
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Theatre in Review: Under the Radar Festival, Part I (Public Theater Online)
The Under the Radar Festival, which focuses on all thing avant-garde, is making its annual appearance; of course, this year everything is online. We'll be looking at a number of events on offer; if the pieces under consideration ...
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Theatre in Review: Taylor Mac: Holiday Sauce...Pandemic! (Pomegranate Arts)
The writer and performance artist Taylor Mac is known for outlandish getups, but even hardcore Mac fans may be startled by the Carmen-Miranda-meets-The-Jolly-Green-Giant ensemble seen in Holiday Sauce...Pandemic! Quite apart ...
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Theatre in Review: Meet Me in St. Louis (Irish Repertory Theatre Online)
The Irish Rep has a number of packages for us to unwrap this holiday season and perhaps the nicest one is that they're not doing A Christmas Carol. (Dickens fans, take note: There are thousands of that particular classic streaming ...
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Theatre in Review: A Christmas Carol
Theatre in Review: A Christmas Carol The closing credits for this streaming edition of A Christmas Carol -- a joint presentation of dozens theatres from coast to coast - list dozens of characters, noting that each of them ...
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Theatre in Review: On Beckett/In Screen (Irish Repertory Theatre Online)
Bill Irwin, on an empty stage, declaiming and performing comic bits to an empty theatre: What could be more Beckettian than that?
The adjective, of course, evokes Samuel Beckett, whose characters exist on an endless vista ...
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Theatre in Review: Russian Troll Farm (TheaterWorks Hartford/TheatreSquared)
Just in time to add to our pre-election jitters comes Sarah Gancher's new play, subtitled "a workplace comedy" -- the job being the sabotage of American democracy. The characters in Russian Troll Farm work for a ...
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Theatre in Review: Shipwreck (The Public Theater Online)
There's no actual shipwreck in Anne Washburn's new play, but you can plausibly conclude that her concern is with the ship of state, a vessel that, by any reasonable measure, is headed straight for the rocks. To illustrate this ...
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