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  Theatre in Review: Oh, Hello On Broadway (Lyceum Theatre)
For some reason, the comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney have taken to playing Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, "legendary bachelors" and superannuated residents of the Upper West Side. Despite being roommates for 40 ...
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Theatre in Review: Chris Gethard: Career Suicide (Lynn Redgrave Theater)
You could say that Chris Gethard's solo piece is about his career in suicide. As he freely admits, from the age of 14 he has been dogged by panic attacks and pervasive feelings of sadness. There was, he insists, no reason for this: ...
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Theatre in Review: Heisenberg (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
Heisenberg begins on a meet-cute note when Georgie Burns, a woman in her early 40s, approaches Alex Priest, a man in his 70s, and kisses him on the back of his neck. They are total strangers, in London's St. Pancras Station. ...
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Theatre in Review: Public Enemy (The Pearl Theatre Company)
"Does anyone here have one good word to say about politicians?" So says Jimonn Cole, mic in hand, speaking directly to the audience at the Pearl. He is ostensibly playing Thomas Stockmann, the eye of the hurricane in the Henrik ...
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Theatre in Review: Inner Voices (Premieres/TBG Theatre)
If you need any further proof that musical theatre is in fine fettle these days, try a visit to Inner Voices. This trio of solo musicals brings together new and veteran talents to tackle conventional material, resulting in ...
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Theatre in Review: Slumber (Hideaway/House of Yes)
Everyone wants to run away with the circus, it seems. Even as Cirque du Soleil storms Broadway, the Canadian troupe has passed through New York with two more touring shows. Meanwhile, earlier in the season, St. Ann's Warehouse opened Bia ...
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Theatre in Review: Holiday Inn (Roundabout Theatre Company/Studio 54)
Holiday Inn arrives with such a winning smile and lively spring in its step that I'm sorry to say that it doesn't put one in more of a holiday mood. But in adapting the 1942 film, a classic of its kind, to the stage, its ...
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Theatre in Review: That Golden Girls Show! A Puppet Parody (DR2 Theatre)
Some shows would seem to be beyond criticism; surely this show's title tells you all need to know, right? It certainly leaves one in little doubt about what to expect on arrival at the DR2, and, to be fair, you get what is promised: a ...
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Theatre in Review: I Like It Like That (Puerto Rican Traveling Theater)
Audiences at jukebox musicals can be remarkably forgiving; mostly they just want to hear the songs they know and love. So it is with I Like It Like That, which draws on the salsa hits of the 1970s and stars Tito Nieves ...
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Theatre in Review: The Trial of an American President (Theatre Row)
"What if?" These words are heard repeatedly in The Trial of an American President. What if, indeed: Dick Tarlow's play, written with the research assistance of Bill Smith, imagines a trial of George W. Bush, in ...
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Theatre in Review: Underground Railroad Game (Lightning Rod Special/Ars Nova Theater)
From the Department of Truth is Stranger than Fiction: When Scott Sheppard was in the fifth grade, he took part in a bizarre classroom exercise designed to educate him and his classmates about the horrors of slavery. Known as The ...
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Theatre in Review: The Roads to Home (Primary Stages/Cherry Lane Theatre)
Sometimes I think we have it all wrong when we call Horton Foote a playwright; really, he's a composer, wringing music both merry and melancholy from the everyday conversation of his characters, most of them residents of the ...
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Theatre in Review: What Did You Expect? (The Public Theater)
The newspapers, airwaves, and Internet are so full of reports trying to explain how this country got into its current predicament that, really, you could spend all day trying to take them in. But more and more, I'm relying on Richard ...
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Theatre in Review: All the Ways to Say I Love You (MCC Theater at Lucille Lortel Theatre)
It's like the title card in a boxing match -- Judith Light vs. Neil LaBute -- in which one of the most honest, probing actresses currently working in New York is pitted against a playwright known for his hopeless addiction to ...
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Theatre in Review: Nat Turner in Jerusalem (New York Theatre Workshop)
Nat Turner in Jerusalem introduces us to Nathan Alan Davis, a very interesting young writer who, a play or two down the road, is going to give us something really interesting. But not just yet: His current effort ...
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Theatre in Review: The Encounter (Complicite/Golden Theatre)
In The Encounter, Simon McBurney gets inside one's head, but he never penetrates one's heart or mind; the result is a fascinating, if arguably wrong-headed, technical exercise that one can admire for its achievement ...
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Theatre in Review: Marie and Rosetta (Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater)
Marie and Rosetta begins with an arrestingly strange image: A middle-aged woman, seated in a room filled with coffins, having her makeup attended to by a young lady. You could sense the puzzled silence in the audience when ...
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Theatre in Review: Where Did We Sit On the Bus? (Ensemble Studio Theatre)
At first, Brian Quijada comes across in his solo show as the odd love child of Lin-Manuel Miranda and John Leguizamo -- the former for the lengthy passages of freestyle rap that carry the narrative and the latter for Quijada's ...
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Theatre in Review: A Taste of Honey (The Pearl Theatre Co.)
Nothing ages faster than another season's act of provocation; the plays remembered most for their unusual frankness, their eagerness to shatter taboos, often have surprisingly little to say for themselves a few decades on. All too often, ...
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Theatre in Review: Fiorello! (Berkshire Theatre Group at East 13th Street Theater)
What with acclaimed Broadway revivals of Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me, along with an Off Broadway run of Rothschild and Sons, a revised version of The Rothschilds, it's safe to say that this is the best ...
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