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Thursday, August 9, 2012

New York Theater Review: BULLET FOR ADOLF (New World Stages in New York City) by Dmitry Zvonkov

FUN, FRIVOLOUS, FLAMBOYANT, ANDÂ FULLY FORGETTABLE The remarkable thing about Bullet for Adolf, the new play written by Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman, is how entertaining it is despite…

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Off-Broadway Theater Review: FINAL ANALYSIS (June Havoc Theatre) by Dmitry Zvonkov

HISTORICAL FIGURES FOR DUMMIES As the audience settled in and Stephen Bradbury, who plays the waiter and also serves as a partial narrator in Otho Eskin's new play Final Analysis, came out o…

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Off-Broadway Theater Review: BLACK MILK (East 13th Street Theater) by Dmitry Zvonkov

RICE MILK Vassily Sigarev's powerful play Black Milk takes place in a remote train station in the hinterlands of Russia, where a couple of young con artists, having just swindled the local y…

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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Off-Broadway Theater Review: WHATTA YA NUTS! (June Havoc Theatre) by Dmitry Zvonkov

FUGEDDABOUDIT! To use a slightly modified quote from a certain NYU professor notorious for his directness (which was misinterpreted by many sensitive arts students as brutality), here is the…

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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Off-Broadway Theater Review: MONSTER (Atlantic Stage 2) by Dmitry Zvonkov

FRANKENSTEIN REVISITED Neal Bell's play Monster dramatizes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, keeping the basic story points of the novel intact: Victor Frankenstein (Joe Varca), a brilliant young…

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Monday, July 16, 2012

Off-Broadway Theater Review: HELL: PARADISE FOUND (59E59 Theaters) by Dmitry Zvonkov

HELL WITH NO INTERMISSION Hell: Paradise Found. Genesis: And so did Seth Panitch rummage through the intellectual compost heap and picketh he out from it clumps of sour clichés and bits of …

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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE BAD AND THE BETTER (The Peter Jay Sharp Theatre) by Dmitry Zvonkov

THE GOOD THAT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER Watching The Amoralists' production of Derek Ahonen's entertaining new play The Bad and The Better, an image comes to mind of a virtuoso juggling act, wi…

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Friday, June 29, 2012

Off-Broadway Theater Review: MORE OF OUR PARTS (Clurman Theater in New York City) by Dmitry Zvonkov

MORE IS LESS THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS When making a show consisting of several short plays about the disabled, one must be concerned, it seems, with the possibility of the whole thing becom…

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Monday, June 25, 2012

Off-Broadway Theater Review: 7TH MONARCH (The Acorn Theater in New York City) by Dmitry Zvonkov

THEATER NOIR: STYLE VS. SUBTEXT Supreme command of stagecraft is evident in every aspect of Somerled Charitable Foundation's production of Jim Henry's initially riveting but ultimately unsat…

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Monday, June 18, 2012

Off-Broadway Theater Review: THIS IS FICTION (Cherry Lane Studio Theater) by Dmitry Zvonkov

THIS IS LIFETIME TV AS THEATER In Megan Hart's first full-length play This is Fiction, Amy (Aubyn Philanbaum) is on the verge of signing the contract to publish her first book when she panic…

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Off-Broadway Theater Review: UNCLE VANYA (Soho Rep in New York City) by Dmitry Zvonkov

THE VANYA EXPERIMENT The wunderkinds of American theater, Annie Baker and Sam Gold, ages 31 and 34 respectively, follow up their earlier collaborations, among them Ms. Baker's remarkably suc…

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Off-Broadway Theater Review: STOREFRONT CHURCH (Linda Gross Theater) by Dmitry Zvonkov

DIME STORE PROPAGANDA One of the problems with watching a play that has an agenda, political or otherwise, is the difficulty of enjoying with a good conscience even those parts that work; kn…

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Friday, June 8, 2012

Off Broadway Theater Review: THE GOLDEN VEIL (The Kitchen) by Dmitry Zvonkov

THEATER AS COLLECTIVE DREAM The band is already playing, the show underway, as we enter The Kitchen Theatre by way of the stage, which is set up like the parlor of a mystic or a fortunetelle…

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Monday, May 28, 2012

Off-Broadway Theater Review: MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! (Signature Theatre) by Dmitry Zvonkov

CHILDREN OF HOPE AND SORROW We enter the theater, which has been configured thrust-style like an amphitheater, and take our seats. The tiny stage below has an unfinished cement floor, a smal…

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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Off-Broadway Theater Review: FEBRUARY HOUSE (The Public Theater) by Dmitry Zvonkov

THE HOUSE OF LOVE AND MUSIC Many artists, being generally unsuited for life in normal society, have often dreamed of a place where they could be with others of their ilk. Where they would be…

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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Off Broadway Theater Review: THE COMMON PURSUIT (Roundabout Theatre Company) by Dmitry Zvonkov

IN PURSUIT OF DRAMA Beneath the stairwell sign assuring guests that all cigarettes smoked on stage are herbal, the following sign might as well have been posted regarding The Roundabout's ne…

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Off Broadway Theater Review: THE CARETAKER (BAM Harvey Theater) by Dmitry Zvonkov

PICKING THROUGH AMBIGUITIES In Harold Pinter's purposefully ambiguous The Caretaker (1960), currently playing at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater, Davies (Jonathan Pryce) is a tran…

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Friday, April 27, 2012

Broadway Theater Review: LEAP OF FAITH (St. James Theater) by Dmitry Zvonkov

LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP Americans love popular stories of miracles and redemption. And really, who doesn't? Few things are more gratifying than God taking time out of His schedule to break all …

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