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Monday, May 21, 2018

Review: ‘There’s Blood at the Wedding’ Keeps Outrage Alive Onstage by Ken Jaworowski

The play, created and directed by Theodora Skipitares, intertwines Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” with the stories of Eric Garner and others killed by the police.

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Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Review: In ‘Wrestling Jerusalem,’ One Man Gives Voice to Many by Ken Jaworowski

In a movie adapted from his play, the writer and actor Aaron Davidman portrays more than a dozen people affected by the Mideast conflict.

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Thursday, July 20, 2017

Review: ‘Romeo Is Bleeding,’ and Shakespeare Is Relevant by Ken Jaworowski

A documentary finds a group of young people in violence-plagued Richmond, Calif., staging their own version of Romeo and Juliet’s romantic tragedy.

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Thursday, July 6, 2017

Review: Falling Hard for a Master Manipulator in ‘Of Human Bondage’ by Ken Jaworowski

The Soulpepper production, adapted by Vern Thiessen from W. Somerset Maugham’s novel, tells a beautifully bittersweet tale.

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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Review: In ‘The Gravedigger’s Lullaby,’ Death Is His Living by Ken Jaworowski

This Jeff Talbott play tells of the exhaustion a cemetery laborer encounters as he navigates his relationships at work and at home.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Review: ‘Leah, the Forsaken’ is an 1862 Drama With Modern Resonance by Ken Jaworowski

In 1700s Austria, a man loves a traveler who can’t stay in his village because she is Jewish. This play’s parallels with current concerns ring clear.

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Thursday, December 15, 2016

Review: ‘Mother Africa: My Home’ Melds Acrobatics and Drumming by Ken Jaworowski

Circus der Sinne, based in Tanzania, deploys performers who leap, juggle and perform myriad other feats at the New Victory Theater, backed by a live band.

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Monday, November 21, 2016

Review: ‘My Name Is Gideon: I’m Probably Going to Die, Eventually’ by Ken Jaworowski

Gideon Irving, who has performed in hundreds of homes in six countries, brings his one-man show of songs, jokes and surprises to Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.

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Sunday, November 20, 2016

Review: Innocuous Remarks Double as Cutting Commentary in ‘Abigail’s Party’ by Ken Jaworowski

This deft revival of a Mike Leigh play, set at a drunken suburban soiree, lays bare the disappointment behind seemingly self-satisfied guests.

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Sunday, October 16, 2016

Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ by Ken Jaworowski

Jamie Horton gives a strong performance as George Orwell in an otherwise standard play at 59E59 Theaters that imagines Orwell promoting “Animal Farm” in the United States.

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Sunday, October 2, 2016

Review: A Minor Brian Friel Play, With 2 Major Performances by Ken Jaworowski

“Afterplay,” in its New York debut, could seem slight were it not for the superb pairing of Dermot Crowley and Dearbhla Molloy.

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Thursday, August 25, 2016

Review: ‘Floyd Norman: An Animated Life’: He Broke Barriers at Disney by Ken Jaworowski

Mr. Norman, the first African-American animator on Disney’s staff, hand-drew scenes for classics including “The Jungle Book” and “Sleeping Beauty.”

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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Review: Yes, It’s the Civil War. But ‘Butler’ Has Some Humor. by Ken Jaworowski

This play is part comedy, part historical drama and part biography, as Major General Butler, a Union officer, weighs the fate of escaped slaves.

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Friday, July 8, 2016

Arts | New Jersey: Review: ‘Struck’ at the New Jersey Repertory Company by Ken Jaworowski

Sandy Rustin’s play, having its world premiere in Long Branch, is a comedy that wrestles with chance and coincidence.

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Friday, June 17, 2016

Theater | New Jersey: Review: ‘I Remember Mama’ at Two River Theater Profits From Creative Casting by Ken Jaworowski

Older actresses, dressed in everyday clothes instead of period costumes, inhabit a range of roles and excite the imagination.

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Friday, June 10, 2016

Review: Stories Eugene O’Neill Told When He Was Very Young by Ken Jaworowski

In the century-old “Recklessness” and “Now I Ask You,” revived at the Metropolitan Playhouse, O’Neill deals with a scandalous affair and bohemianism.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Review: ‘The Death of a Black Man (a Walk By)’ Takes On the Issue of Gun Violence by Ken Jaworowski

This play makes its case by placing its actors amid the audience members as they enact a crime scene, a protest and a funeral.

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Sunday, May 1, 2016

Arts | New Jersey: Review: ‘The Outgoing Tide’ by the Dreamcatcher Repertory Theater by Ken Jaworowski

Bruce Graham’s play, which is having its New Jersey debut, employs a passionate anger while tackling the tough, emotional subjects of aging, memory loss and dementia.

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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Arts | New Jersey: Review: Flirting With Insights in ‘Sex With Strangers’ at George Street Playhouse by Ken Jaworowski

In the play, written by Laura Eason, two writers at a bed-and-breakfast have chemistry, but the most intriguing moments take place after the sex.

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Review: Sugar Ray Robinson’s Bouts and Biography, With a Bite Thrown In by Ken Jaworowski

The boxer, this one-man show’s subject, had his share of money woes, but the actor playing him, Reginald L. Wilson, is an upbeat presence.

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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Review: In ‘Dead Dog Park,’ a Police Chase, a Young Death and Countering Theories by Ken Jaworowski

The story begins soon after a black teenager has fallen to his death while being pursued by a white officer, raising questions over whether he was pushed.

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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Arts | New Jersey: Two Reunions, Bittersweet and Foreboding, in ‘The Brothers Size’ by Ken Jaworowski

The production, poetic yet unpretentious, explores the friction between siblings and a former prison mate near a Louisiana bayou.

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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Arts | New Jersey: In ‘The Piano Lesson,’ a Family Fight Over an Heirloom Rooted in Slavery by Ken Jaworowski

The production of August Wilson’s play, at the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton, N.J., tells the story of an African-American family in 1936.

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Monday, January 25, 2016

Review: ‘The Burial at Thebes,’ a Vicious but Poetic Tale Retold by Ken Jaworowski

Seamus Heaney’s adaptation of Sophocles’ “Antigone,” at the Irish Repertory Theater, was written in response to the American invasion of Iraq.

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Friday, December 18, 2015

Theater | New Jersey: Review: ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ Goes for High Jinks and Low Comedy by Ken Jaworowski

The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey takes a restrained approach to the bard’s play, in which the rascal Falstaff tries to seduce and swindle two wealthy wives.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Review: ‘Captive Audience,’ Seven Plays by David Ives by New York Deaf Theater by Ken Jaworowski

This production features a cast of four deaf and four hearing actors, using both spoken English and American Sign Language.

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Thursday, November 12, 2015

Theater | New Jersey: Review: The Family of Anne Frank, Made Real by Silence by Ken Jaworowski

“The Diary of Anne Frank” reminds us that the Franks weren’t just hallowed historical names but something far more complex: human beings.

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Friday, October 23, 2015

Review: In ‘Hard Love,’ a Couple Divided by Religion and Big Questions by Ken Jaworowski

In Motti Lerner’s sober drama, a divorced couple meet after 20 years, stirring up divisive issues of faith and individual choice.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

‘The Gray Man,’ a Tale of Spooky Disappearances by Ken Jaworowski

Andrew Farmer’s play at the Walker Space raises the specter of a boogeyman who preys on children in 1910 New York.

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Thursday, September 10, 2015

Theater | New Jersey: Review: ‘The People Before the Park,’ a Family Clash Rich in New York History by Ken Jaworowski

A new drama set in a mostly African-American village soon to be razed for Central Park will debut at Kean University.

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Monday, July 13, 2015

Review: An ‘As You Like It’ on Asphalt, From Shakespeare in the Parking Lot by Ken Jaworowski

After losing its old “stage” to redevelopment, the group presents its first play of the summer at a lot nearby.

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards