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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Review: In ‘The Comedy of Errors,’ Twins Lead to Confusion by Laura Collins-Hughes

Kelley Curran steals the show in Taibi Magar’s staging of this comedy, presented in Lenox, Mass., by Shakespeare & Company.

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Monday, August 3, 2015

Review: In ‘Freight,’ a Black Man Follows the Script for Five Incarnations by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Howard L. Craft’s century-spanning play at Here, J. Alphonse Nicholson plays a minstrel, a faith healer, an F.B.I. informant, an actor and a homeless man.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Review: ‘Paradise Blue’ Rekindles Racial Drama in 1949 Detroit by Laura Collins-Hughes

This jazz-infused play at the Williamstown Theater Festival stars Blair Underwood as a bullying nightclub owner and De’Adre Aziza as the alluring stranger who comes to town.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Review: ‘Antigona,’ From Noche Flamenca, Pairs Rhythmic Dance With Greek Drama by Laura Collins-Hughes

The odd-couple match of flamenco and ancient Greek tragedy in this production at West Park Presbyterian Church makes an “Aha!” kind of sense of the Sophocles work.

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Monday, July 20, 2015

Review: ‘Awake and Sing!,’ a Depression-Era Family Drama by Laura Collins-Hughes

This play by Clifford Odets, directed by Stephen Brown-Fried at the Public Theater, is about a struggling Bronx family with aspirations.

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Critic’s Notebook: Review: New York Musical Theater Festival Includes ‘Deep Love’ and ‘Pope!’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

Among the offerings at this festival is a work in which the lead character wants to be the pope.

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Friday, July 17, 2015

Review: In ‘The International,’ Those Who Treat a Massacre as Entertainment by Laura Collins-Hughes

Tim Ruddy’s three-monologue drama takes place during an unnamed conflict that seems very much like Bosnian Serb forces’ slaughter of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica.

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‘Spring Awakening’ Revival Requires Signing in Lieu of Singing by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Broadway-bound musical production, which blends hearing and deaf performers, held an open casting call for deaf actors this week.

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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Manual Cinema Presents the Semi-Gothic ‘Ada/Ava’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

The shadow-puppetry troupe makes use of music, cinematic techniques and art works to create its shows.

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Monday, July 13, 2015
Thursday, July 9, 2015

Review: ‘Losing Tom Pecinka’ Challenges Audience to Get the Message by Laura Collins-Hughes

Purposefully formulaic characters, a gender bend and a ghost with the name of a company member come together in this sendup of a play.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Review: ‘The Tempest’ Brings Music and Spirits to Marcus Garvey Park by Laura Collins-Hughes

Carl Cofield directs the Classical Theater of Harlem’s production, which stars Ron Cephas Jones as Prospero.

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Monday, June 29, 2015

Review: In Beckett’s ‘Happy Days,’ a Woman Buried Deep by Inertia by Laura Collins-Hughes

Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub star in this production at the Flea Theater, directed by Andrei Belgrader.

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Friday, June 26, 2015

Review: John Kelly Revives ‘Love of a Poet’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

This performance artist and singer has remade his “Love of a Poet,” based on Robert Schumann’s song cycle “Dichterliebe.”

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Monday, June 22, 2015

Review: In ‘At the Table,’ a Menu of Identity-Based Arguments by Laura Collins-Hughes

Michael Perlman’s play, presented by Fault Line Theater, convenes a group of dinner party guests who tussle over abortion, race and class.

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Douglas Carter Beane Returns to His Childhood Home by Laura Collins-Hughes

The playwright took a bus from Manhattan to Reading, Pa., to revisit the theater that inspired his new play, “Shows for Days.”

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Theater Review: Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Embraces Fun and Folly of a Classic by Laura Collins-Hughes

Tamilla Woodard delivers a breezy production that is warm-blooded and frolicsome for Masterworks Theater Company.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Review: ‘The Pavilion,’ a Class Reunion Drama, at Barrow Group Theater by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Craig Wright’s comic romance, Kari and Peter meet again at their 20th high school reunion, and he wants her back.

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Review: Loudon Wainwright III’s ‘Surviving Twin’ Is a Father-Son Collaboration by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mr. Wainwright combines his work with that of his father, the writer Loudon Wainwright Jr., in his solo show.

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Sunday, June 14, 2015

Review: ‘The Old Masters,’ Art Found, Artist Lost and Another Adrift by Laura Collins-Hughes

Sam Marks’s play, at the Flea Theater, tackles art-world pretensions and a frustrated painter and father-to-be’s existential crisis.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Review: Panti’s ‘High Heels in Low Places’ Delivers Identity Politics in Stilettos by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Irish drag queen Panti, who gained fame when her speech about homophobia went viral, makes an argument for the freedom to be oneself at the Irish Arts Center.

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Monday, June 8, 2015

Review: ‘Smile at Us, Oh Lord’ Depicts a Jewish Odyssey by Laura Collins-Hughes

This mournful play, adapted from a novel by the Israeli-based Lithuanian author Grigory Kanovich, is presented by the Cherry Orchard Festival.

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Friday, June 5, 2015

Review: ‘J. Edgar Klezmer: Songs From My Grandmother’s F.B.I. Files’ Tells All at Here Arts Center by Laura Collins-Hughes

Eve Sicular’s play documents her grandmother’s life, with help from J. Edgar Hoover’s watchful eye and meticulous records.

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Review: At Ensemble Studio Theater, Men and Women Chatting Privately by Laura Collins-Hughes

This theater’s 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays includes a marital comedy by Julia Cho and a portrait of intimacy and entitlement by Martyna Majok.

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Snapshot: ‘Cuddles,’ From Joseph Wilde, Turns the Tables on a Fear of Horror by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mr. Wilde talks about his unnerving vampire tale at 59E59 Theaters, which depicts two women — one all-controlling, the other wrapped up in fantasy tales.

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Friday, May 29, 2015

Review: In ‘The Upper Room,’ Homesteaders Living an Eco-Nightmare by Laura Collins-Hughes

Jeremy Bloom and Brian Rady’s play, at the New Ohio Theater, includes Catherine Brookman’s music, rising water levels, New England farmers and marine animals behaving oddly.

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Review: ‘For the Last Time’ Sets a Hawthorne Novel in New Orleans, in 1950 by Laura Collins-Hughes

Nancy Harrow and Will Pomerantz collaborate on this jazz musical at the Clurman Theater at Theater Row.

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Monday, May 25, 2015

Hot for teacher by Laura Collins-Hughes

Amanda Palmer's secret weapon for ART's "Cabaret"? Her high school mentor.

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Is Inge coming back into vogue? by Laura Collins-Hughes

Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Peter DuBois didn't have to look far to find someone raising an eyebrow or two at his desire to revive William Inge's “Bus Stop.'' The firs…

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Fictional town sets Annie Baker's plays in motion by Laura Collins-Hughes

Annie Baker will have three of her "Shirley, Vt." plays performed in a festival of her work.

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Harm for the holidays by Laura Collins-Hughes

At the Huntington Theatre, collaborators reunite for a new play that reveals a family's tragic flaws at festive times, "Vengeance Is the Lord’s."

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