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  Theatre in Review: Austin (Theatre Row)
The Cassidy family is a hot mess, and so is the play that portrays them. Austin Cassidy is a former money manager who has just graduated from what may be his twelfth time in rehab. (For this round of recovery, he has been in the Berkshires ...
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Theatre in Review: Junie B.'s Essential Survival Guide to School (Theatreworks USA)
If you're looking to introduce a little one to theatre, you should consider stopping by the Lucille Lortel, where the long-running children's theatre producer Theatreworks is presenting its latest musical about Junie B. Jones. The beloved ...
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Theatre in Review: Summer Shorts Series A (59E59)
This long-running festival of new writing puts its worst foot forward in the first of two programs. Based on the three offerings of Series A, one is forced to wonder if the pickings were especially slim this year. The most amusing piece is ...
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Theatre in Review: The Winter's Tale (New York Classical Theatre)
How thoughtful of the folks at New York Classical Theatre, which performs free Shakespeare in various city parks during the summer, to select the Battery for its current production, The Winter's Tale. During the hottest week ...
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Theatre in Review: Quietly (Irish Repertory Theatre)
The title of Owen McCafferty's play may seem strange at first, since its two main characters are linked by a legacy of violence and, at long last, they are to settle up with each other, frankly and sometimes furiously laying bare ...
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Theatre in Review: Butler (New Jersey Repertory Company/59E59)
Do we really need a boulevard comedy about slavery? Regardless, we now have one in Butler. Richard Strand -- who, I hasten to add, seems to have the very best intentions -- has aims to illuminate a little-known piece ...
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Theatre in Review: Paradiso: Chapter One
"I'm a friend of Mr. Chen." With this enigmatic statement, I was ushered into the murky world of Paradiso: Chapter One. Having arrived at a Midtown location -- I'm not allowed to say where -- on a recent Saturday afternoon, I ...
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Theatre in Review: A Class Act (New World Stages)
"You really think we can get a giant like General Chemical to settle?" That's the big question at the heart of A Class Act. Norman Shabel, a longtime trial and class action lawyer, has assembled a gallery of tough ...
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Theatre in Review: Macbeth (Classical Theatre of Harlem/Richard Rodgers Amphitheater)
Drums pound, machetes are flashed, and the bodies pile up in Carl Cofield's production of The Scottish Play. Here, it's not so Scottish: The action has been moved to a country very much like Ethiopia during the reign of Haile ...
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Theatre in Review: Privacy (The Public Theater)
If you have ever dreamed of a date with Daniel Radcliffe, you should hop on down to the Public Theater, where he is starring in the singular entertainment known as Privacy. At one point in the second act, three members ...
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Theatre in Review: 2 by Tennessee Williams (St Luke's Theatre)
Fans of Tennessee Williams will be titillated by the opportunity to check out two of his rarely seen one-acts, but they should calm down and take a deep breath before proceeding to St. Luke's Theatre. Each of these plays needs ...
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Theatre in Review: No End of Blame: Scenes of Overcoming (Potomac Theatre Project)
Howard Barker has a thing for artists who go against the temper of their times. Last summer, Potomac Theatre Project (PTP) staged his play Scenes from an Execution, which focused on a female 17th-century Venetian painter ...
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Theatre in Review: Oslo (Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse)
At the exact moment when this country -- or the world, for that matter -- seems hopelessly polarized, comes J.T. Rogers' Oslo, a stunning account -- both intimate and panoramic -- of what can happen when deadly enemies ...
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Theatre in Review: Good (Potomac Theatre Project/Atlantic Theater Stage II)
Let's give the good folks at Potomac Theatre Project points for timeliness. Watching John Halder, the protagonist of Good, twist his soul into a monstrous pretzel in order to accommodate the dictates of the Nazi Party, I couldn't ...
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Theatre in Review: Liberty: A Monumental New Musical (42 West)
No matter what Donald Trump says, musical theatre writers love immigrants. And why not? The story of the great wave of Europeans who came to America before, say, 1920 is inherently stirring, filled with the stuff that makes great theatre. ( ...
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Theatre in Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream (New York Classical Theatre)
If the Public Theater produces Shakespeare in the Park, New York Classical Theatre specializes in Shakespeare al fresco. This intrepid troupe commandeers a slice of a public park and, without benefit of stage, scenery, or sound design -- ...
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Theatre in Review: Phoenix Rising: Girls and the Secrets We Keep (Theatre Row)
The title of Laura Gosheff's new play sounds like an Eve Ensler-style all-girl confessional, and at times Phoenix Rising is reminiscent of Emotional Creature, Ensler's look at the struggles of adolescents. ...
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Theatre in Review: The Paper Hat Game (3-Legged Dog/The Tank)
How to explain the hallucinatory effect of The Paper Hat Game? Working inside a tiny toy theatre, the puppet artist Torry Bend and her creative team tell their story, conjuring up a parade of indelible Chicago city ...
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Theatre in Review: Stet (Abingdon Theatre Company/June Havoc Theatre)
Stet begins with a video clip from MSNBC; Erika, a reporter for a national magazine, is being interviewed about her blockbuster article documenting a brutal gang rape at an unnamed American university. The interviewer asks, "D ...
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Theatre in Review: The Healing (Theater Breaking Through Barriers/Theatre Row)
I've begun to think of Samuel D. Hunter as the stealth missile of playwrights; he works so quietly and seamlessly that when the dramatic explosion comes, it is always a surprise. This is certainly what happens with The Healing< ...
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