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A Good Idea Taken Too FarReviewed by Judd HollanderIn the world of tabloid talk shows, few are more famous, or infamous, than "The Jerry Springer Show". A place where relationships, question…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:26PMReviewed by Judd HollanderThe McKittrick Hotel, home to such artistic triumphs as Sleep No More and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, has another winner with their latest offering, Flig…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:15AMReviewed by Judd HollanderFor the last quarter of a century, the appeal of the Encores! series at New York City Center has been the opportunity for audiences to see little known, or long for…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:12PMReviewed by Judd HollanderIt’s great to have a best friend when you’re a child. Someone you can tell secrets to, watch television with, and just hang out together. But as one grows …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:24AMReviewed by Judd HollanderShadows of the past run long and deep, and breaking free to find your own way is not as easy as it may seem. A point Adrienne Kennedy makes clear in her absolutely …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:23PMReviewed by Judd HollanderA theatrical documentarian gets pulled into his own subject in The Undertaking, now at 59E59 Theaters.After working on various projects for the investigative t…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:38AMReviewed by Judd HollanderIf "sleep is freedom", as one character points out in Enda Walsh's Ballyturk, then it follows that ignorance is bliss and knowledge offers an awareness that can be …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:16PMReviewed by Judd Hollander"I don't know how to want less", exclaims Hazel (Deborah Findlay) in Lucy Kirkwood's dystopian drama The Children. This Londontransfer currently having its North Am…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:24PMReviewed by Judd HollanderEach person’s life touches others, often in the most unexpected ways. It’s a lesson learned by George Bailey in the 1946 film “It’s A Wonderful Life", and g…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 03:06PMReviewed by Judd HollanderJust because one person has an opinion of how they stand in a cultural context, doesn't mean people with different social perspectives share that same opinion. This…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:54PMReviewed by Judd HollanderFor the record, the Grinch did not pat Cindy Lou Who on the butt during that long ago Christmas Eve, nor was she possibly three years old at the time the two first …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:36PMReviewed by Judd HollanderBilly Crudup gives a powerful performance in David Cale's Harry Clarke. A one-man play about the realizations and pitfalls that come with self-discovery, now at the…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:36PMReviewed by Judd HollanderThe birth pangs of the New York Shakespeare Festival, particularly its conflicts with the New York City Parks Department and city planner Robert Moses are the stuff…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 01:04PMReviewed by Judd HollanderSatire may be what closes on Saturday night, as playwright George S. Kaufman once said, but that was certainly not the case for the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical O…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:36AMReviewed by Judd HollanderThe breakdown of the status quo can be tough on those who've lived by it for so long. An issue Brian Friel examines in his 2005 dramaThe Home Place. The work having…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:24AMReviewed by Judd HollanderElevator Repair Service, known for taking literary classics and adapting them to the stage - with results ranging from somewhat interesting to completely astonishin…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:54PMReviewed by Judd HollanderOne of the more provocative dramas to hit the Off-Broadway stage in recent years is the U.K. import, A Clockwork Orange. A transfer of Anthony Burgess’ 1962 …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:48PMReviewed by Judd HollanderThe subtext to the question "when did you grow up" is "when did you stop being a child"? A question explored in Sarah Ruhl’s bittersweet drama For Peter Pan …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:54PMReviewed by Judd HollanderWhat if you knew exactly how your life was going to turn out, and there was absolutely nothing you could do to change it? One woman finds herself in exactly that si…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:18AMReviewed by Judd HollanderThe Public Theater pulls out all the stops with its eye-catching presentation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream at the Delacorte Theater in Central …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:42PMReviewed by Judd HollanderThe theatrical group Improbable takes a look at the struggle to understand the human condition, as well as its strengths, weaknesses and limits in Opening Skinner's…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:48AMReviewed by Judd HollanderThe world has long had a morbid fascination with those who try to kill public figures, while at the same time trying to understand what makes them tick. These eleme…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:36PMReviewed by Judd HollanderWhat you sew, so shall you eventually reap. A warning that could easily apply to William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, currently being given an enjoyable …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:18AMReviewed by Judd HollanderFew plays are as consistently topical as William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Offering a forceful lesson on the perils of blind ambition, the show is being p…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:33PMReviewed by Judd HollanderFew plays are as consistently topical as William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Offering a forceful lesson on the perils of blind ambition, the show is being p…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:54AMReviewed by Judd HollanderRed Bull Theater forgoes any kind of subtlety and nuance in presenting The Government Inspector. Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from Nikolai Gogol's 1836 work Revizor, …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:12PMReviewed by Judd HollanderA subtitle for The Whirligig, the new drama by Hamish Linklater, could very well be "Six Degrees of Separation Lite". Presented by The New Group and currently …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:54AMReviewed by Judd HollanderPlaywright Enda Walsh examines those caught up in situations of oppression and loneliness with his works Arlington and Rooms. Vastly different in the…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:06AMReviewed by Judd Hollander Denial becomes a powerful weapon of survival in the Yale Repertory Theatre's production of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days. The show running through May 28 at Th…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:05PMReviewed by Judd HollanderBefore taking their seats in the Darryl Roth Theatre, audience members come face-to-face with a wall of cards. The different offerings listing various life choices.…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:48PMReviewed by Judd HollanderIllicit liquor flowing by the barrel, gangsters who won't stay dead after being shot, high society folks with low moral standards, tap dancing cops with machine gun…
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