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Friday, October 28, 2011

Theater Review: ‘Sistas: The Musical’ - Review by Anita Gates

In “Sistas: The Musical” pop songs punctuate the stories of a group of black women.

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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Arts | Connecticut: In ‘Molly Sweeney,’ Three Characters Blind to One Another - Review by Anita Gates

In the Irish Repertory Theater production of “Molly Sweeney,” the cast of three is focused on surgery that could help a blind woman see.

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Sunday, October 2, 2011

Arts | Connecticut: Sarah Ruhl’s Take on Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’ Is at Yale - Review by Anita Gates

The playwright Sarah Ruhl used a fresh, “literal” translation of Anton Chekhov’s 110-year-old drama “Three Sisters,” now at the University Theater at Yale.

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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Theater Review | 'Seed': ‘Seed’ Opens at National Black Theater - Review by Anita Gates

A boy who had a rough start in life captures the attention of a social worker he meets by chance in “Seed,” a play by Radha Blank at the National Black Theater.

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Monday, September 26, 2011

Arts | New Jersey: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ at Two River Theater - Review by Anita Gates

A production of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Much Ado About Nothing” gets the 20th-century treatment at the Two River Theater in Red Bank, N.J.

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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Arts | New Jersey: ‘Othello’ at the Shakespeare Theater at Drew University - Review by Anita Gates

Not every director of “Othello” has the courage to bring the humor front and center. Bonnie J. Monte dares to do so in the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey’s new production.

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Spotlight | Hartford: Darko Tresnjak Takes Over at Hartford Stage by Anita Gates

The first season for the new director of the Hartford Stage, Darko Tresnjak, is under way.

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Friday, September 16, 2011

Theater Review: ‘A Night With George’ - Review by Anita Gates

In “A Night With George,” about an Irishwoman’s “connection” to George Clooney, the title character never appears.

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Saturday, September 3, 2011

Arts | Connecticut: ‘Suddenly Last Summer’ at Westport Playhouse - Review by Anita Gates

Tennessee Williams’s “Suddenly Last Summer,” at the Westport Country Playhouse, has familiar components, including an eccentric Southern woman and intimations of homosexuality.

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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Arts | Connecticut: ‘The Understudy’ Is at TheaterWorks in Hartford by Anita Gates

All three characters in “The Understudy,” being performed at TheaterWorks in Hartford, have taken jobs they normally wouldn’t.

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

ArtsBeat Blog: New York Fringe Festival Report: 'Paper Cut' by Anita Gates

"Paper Cut" is one of those artfully quirky solo performances that make the New York International Fringe Festival worth checking out.

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Monday, August 22, 2011

ArtsBeat Blog: New York Fringe Festival Report: 'You Only Shoot the Ones You Love' by Anita Gates

Jeffrey Sweet's solo show is like a series of entertaining, compelling, sometimes rambling excerpts from a long talk-show interview.

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ArtsBeat Blog: New York Fringe Festival Report: 'Chasing Heaven' by Anita Gates

"Chasing Heaven" stops short of burning insight, but it is funny, thoughtful, brightly acted and about as timely as a play can get.

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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Theater Review | Summer Shorts 5 : It Takes a Headless Lady to Cause New Yorkers to Stop by Anita Gates

Series B of the Throughline Artists’ Summer Shorts 5 festival of new American plays is a New York affair.

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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Arts | New Jersey: Searching for Truth, Under Cover of Lies by Anita Gates

The production of Dario Fo’s “Accidental Death of an Anarchist” by the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey is at Drew University through Aug. 28.

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Friday, August 5, 2011

Theater Review | 'The Pretty Trap': A Mother’s Familiar Optimism, Without the Familiar Letdown by Anita Gates

“The Pretty Trap,” a slight but intriguing one-act precursor to Tennessee Williams’s “Glass Menagerie,” is being given its New York premiere by Cause Célèbre at the Acorn Theater.

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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Theater Review | Connecticut: Isolation and Mortality by the Swimming Pool by Anita Gates

Mark Lamos directs the Westport Country Playhouse’s production of “Lips Together, Teeth Apart,” Terrence McNally’s 1991 play about two straight couples visiting a beach house on Fire…

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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Arts | New Jersey: The Dumb Blonde With an I.Q. of 172 (No Joke) by Anita Gates

“The Judy Holliday Story,” at New Jersey Repertory, is even and tasteful, but that may not have been the best way to go.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Theater Review | 'Victory: Choices in Reaction': Puritan Widow Confronts a Randy, Profane King by Anita Gates

Howard Barker’s 1983 play “Victory: Choices in Reaction,” having its American premiere at the Atlantic Theater’s Stage 2, features Jan Maxwell in a tour de force performance.

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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Arts | New Jersey: A Cynical View of Careless Generosity by Anita Gates

Shakespeare’s little-known “Timon of Athens” is at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater at Drew University through July 24.

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Arts | Westchester: Beware of Siren With Smartphone by Anita Gates

In “Sirens,” the Penguin Repertory Theater comedy, neither men nor their Greek sea temptresses have changed, but their digital playthings have.

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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Spotlight | Hartford: Nat King Cole, Beyond the Music by Anita Gates

“I Wish You Love” considers Nat King Cole’s image, the man beyond it and his place as a black entertainer in the racially charged America of the 1950s and ’60s.

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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Theater Review | 'The Greenwich Village Follies': From George Washington to Beatniks and Beyond by Anita Gates

“The Greenwich Village Follies,” at Manhattan Theater Source, is a historical tour of the Village, with singing.

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Arts | Westchester: A Button-Down Man Sets Out, Trailed by Silliness by Anita Gates

The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s sole non-Elizabethan offering this summer is a Jules Verne adaptation shot through with silliness.

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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Arts | Connecticut: Shakespeare’s Fools for Love, Fighting a ‘Merry War’ by Anita Gates

Shakespeare on the Sound’s lively, likable production of “Much Ado About Nothing” abounds with characters and situations that contemporary young people can easily relate to.

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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Theater Review | Connecticut: In Fine Society, Infidelity and Its Consequences by Anita Gates

“The Circle,” W. Somerset Maugham’s 1921 play, includes Marsha Mason as a fallen woman and Paxton Whitehead as the husband she left.

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Friday, June 17, 2011

Theater Review | 'Ajax in Iraq': The Insanity of War Is Not Ancient Myth by Anita Gates

In “Ajax in Iraq,” Ellen McLaughlin tells the parallel stories of the Trojan War figure and an American soldier.

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Sunday, June 12, 2011

A Man in Love, Despite His Best Efforts by ANITA GATES

Molière’s “The Misanthrope,” onstage in Madison, is a 17th-century gem that speaks clearly about the current social condition.

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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Arts | New Jersey: A Man in Love, Despite His Best Efforts by Anita Gates

Molière’s “The Misanthrope,” onstage in Madison, is a 17th-century gem that speaks clearly about the current social condition.

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Theater Review | Long Island: ‘Rhapsody’ and More: Gershwins’ Nice Work by Anita Gates

When “ ’S Wonderful” works at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport, it works beautifully.

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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Theater Review | 'As It Is in Heaven': A Striking, Gentle Portrait of a Shaker Community by Anita Gates

The 3 Graces Theater Company offers a rendition of Arlene Hutton’s play, “As It Is in Heaven.”

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