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Sunday, March 30, 2025

Review: Vanya at the Lucille Lortel by Carol Rocamora

An adaptation that highlights one astonishing performance without abandoning the themes of the original. Carol Rocamora reviews. The post Review: Vanya at the Lucille Lortel appeared first o…

SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 06:57PM

Saturday, March 15, 2025

London Theatre Review: KYOTO (Royal Shakespeare Company) by Carol Rocamora

LONDON THEATRES’ BOUNTIFUL OFFERINGS Spring may not have come yet, but it’s already high season for the London theatre. And it’s an exceptional one. Of the eight productions I attended…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:47PM

London Theatre Review: THE YEARS (Harold Pinter Theatre) by Carol Rocamora

LONDON THEATRES’ BOUNTIFUL OFFERINGS Spring may not have come yet, but it’s already high season for the London theatre. And it’s an exceptional one. Of the eight productions I attended…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:47PM

Friday, February 28, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: DAKAR 2000 (Manhattan Theatre Club World Premiere by Rajiv Joseph at New York City Center) by Carol Rocamora

A THILLER IN REVERSE “It’s the story of a kid who just wanted to make a difference…” But what price does he pay for it? Boubs (short for Boubakar), the narrator of Rajiv Joseph’s g…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:48PM

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Review: Gypsy at the Majestic Theater by Carol Rocamora

Audra McDonald delivers a Rose for the ages. Carol Rocamora reviews. The post Review: Gypsy at the Majestic Theater appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.

SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 12:47PM

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Broadway Review: CULT OF LOVE (Second Stage at Helen Hayes) by Carol Rocamora

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way… When Tolstoy wrote that line in Anna Karenina, he hadn’t met the Dahls yet – that unforgettable family in L…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:46PM

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Quiara Alegría Hudes’s ‘Daphne’s Dive’ at Signature Theatre by Carol Rocamora

Philadelphia-born Quiara Alegría Hudes sets her newest play in a North Philly bar, against a backdrop of family and civic unrest.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:03PM

Friday, April 29, 2016

Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’ on Broadway by Carol Rocamora

The special effects in Ivo Van Hove’s stunningly radical production of The Crucible threaten to overwhelm Arthur Miller’s eloquent plea for decency and integrity.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:26PM

Sunday, April 24, 2016

‘The Father’ and ‘Blackbird’ on Broadway by Carol Rocamora

Some plays are too traumatic to sit through. I found myself in that bind last week, watching The Father and Blackbird— both well written and directed, both powerfully performed, both deali…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:37PM

Monday, May 25, 2015

When slaves in Egypt owned slaves in Virginia by CAROL ROCAMORA

How could Jews, of all people, have owned slaves in the antebellum South? Matthew Lopez’s inspiring new play, The Whipping Man, uses one such family as a parable of faith, family, free…

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:58PM

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Four Lears in Six Months by Carol Rocamora

(Frank Langella as Lear in the Chichester Festival Theatre’s production in January) “These late eclipses of the sun and moon portend us no good.” So predicts Gloucester in King L…

SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:28PM

Friday, July 18, 2014

All Hail Macbeth! by Carol Rocamora

“By the pricking of my thumbs,/Something wicked this way comes.” A veritable army of Macbeths have been marching through New York these past few years, culminating in the spectacular one…

SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:42PM

Sunday, October 30, 2011

A discovery in N.Y., a fixture in Philly by Carol Rocamora

Watching Bruce Graham's absurdist comedy Any Given Monday, now being presented in New York by Ambler's Act II Playhouse, can't help but produce a warm and fuzzy feeling, especially if you're…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:29PM

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