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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Ballerina Swan,’ Choreographed by Michael McGowan by Claudia La Rocco

“Ballerina Swan” is a stage adaptation of Allegra Kent’s children’s book about a swan who wants to dance.    

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Friday, October 25, 2013

Theater Review: Zimmermann & de Perrot at Brooklyn Academy of Music by Claudia La Rocco

Zimmermann & de Perrot’s “Hans was Heiri” is physical theater in a set that moves, too.    

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Friday, October 11, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Eternal,’ by Daniel Fish, at Incubator Arts Project by Claudia La Rocco

Two actors recreate the final scene of a film 23 times in “Eternal,” a film by Daniel Fish.    

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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Theater Review: ‘feeling’: A Breakup and a Visit From Jeffrey Dahmer by Claudia La Rocco

Paul Cameron Hardy’s “feeling” examines a woman in free fall after a relationship who strikes up a conversation with Jeffrey Dahmer.    

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Monday, September 30, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Shakespeare’s Sister’ Adapts Woolf and Duras by Claudia La Rocco

“Shakespeare’s Sister,” performed by an accomplished quintet of women, is having its New York premiere at La MaMa.    

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Theater Review: ‘A Man’s World’ Is Being Revived at Metropolitan Playhouse by Claudia La Rocco

“A Man’s World,” a 1910 drama by Rachel Crothers is about a novelist and single mother in New York who contends with gossip and stereotypes even within her bohemian circle.  …

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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Theater Review: ‘The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle’ Comes to 59E59 by Claudia La Rocco

“The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle,” a play about a man’s immediate afterlife, is having its American premiere at 59E59 Theaters.    

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Theater Review: ‘Sacred Elephant,’ a Monologue Directed by Geoffrey Hyland by Claudia La Rocco

“Sacred Elephant,” at La MaMa, elevates the creature and despairs over its fate.    

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Theater Review: ‘All God’s Chillun Got Wings,’ Revived in Brooklyn by Claudia La Rocco

The director Godfrey L. Simmons Jr., has imposed a provocative twist on Eugene O’Neill’s play “All God’s Chillun Got Wings.”    

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Monday, September 9, 2013

Theater Review: ‘The Tempest,’ at the Delacorte, Enlists 200 New Yorkers by Claudia La Rocco

“The Tempest,” at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, was the first production from the Public Works initiative.    

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Sunday, June 9, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Cuff Me!’ a ‘Fifty Shades’ Parody by Claudia La Rocco

“Cuff Me! The Fifty Shades of Grey Unauthorized Musical Parody” joins a cottage industry devoted to E. L. James’s wildly successful novel.    

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Monday, May 27, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Dojoji: The Man Inside the Bell’ at Clurman Theater by Claudia La Rocco

A young woman’s outrage animates an updated Japanese parable of transformation in “Dojoji: The Man Inside the Bell” at the Clurman Theater.    

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Basilica,’ by Mando Alvarado, at the Cherry Lane Theater by Claudia La Rocco

Mando Alvarado’s new drama, “Basilica,” is bounded by home, church and bar in San Juan, Tex.    

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Theater Review: ‘The Hotel Colors,’ Eliza Bent’s Debut at Bushwick Starr by Claudia La Rocco

“The Hotel Colors,” Eliza Bent’s debut play about a day in the life of a group of bedraggled travelers in Italy, is at the Bushwick Starr.    

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Monday, May 13, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Mariquitas’ at Theater for the New City by Claudia La Rocco

A small group of men in contemporary Havana try to game the system, and one another, in Eduardo Machado’s “Mariquitas,” at Theater for the New City.    

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Theater Review: ‘Everyone Was Chanting Your Name,’ at Abrons Arts Center by Claudia La Rocco

The audience members are all front-row, and many have a role in “Everyone Was Chanting Your Name.”    

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Thursday, May 2, 2013

‘Nikolai and the Others’ Relates the Making of ‘Orpheus’ by Claudia La Rocco

Richard Nelson’s new play, “Nikolai and the Others,” dramatizes the artists behind the Balanchine-Stravinsky ballet classic “Orpheus.”    

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Born With Teeth,’ at the Pershing Square Signature Center by Claudia La Rocco

The Epic Theater Ensemble makes several adjustments to “Richard III,” giving it a contemporary setting and a new title: “Born With Teeth.”    

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Friday, April 26, 2013

Theater Review: ‘A Marriage: 1 (Suburbia)’ Takes Over Here Art Center by Claudia La Rocco

In the first event in a multipart performance installation, Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin explore wedded life in the suburbs.    

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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Snapshot | Joseph Keckler: Interview With Joseph Keckler by Claudia La Rocco

Joseph Keckler’s new work, “I Am an Opera,” mixes song, text and video.

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Friday, March 29, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Dream Play,’ at the Here Arts Center by Claudia La Rocco

The National Asian-American Theater Company’s “Dream Play” adapts the Strindberg drama about the daughter of a goddess who sets out to understand what makes human beings tick.

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Monday, March 25, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Happy Birthday,’ by Anita Loos, at the Beckett Theater by Claudia La Rocco

“Happy Birthday,” written by Anita Loos as a vehicle for Helen Hayes, has been revived at the Beckett Theater.

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Friday, March 15, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Pocahontas, and/or America’ at the Bushwick Starr by Claudia La Rocco

“Pocahontas, and/or America,” at the Bushwick Starr, repurposes historical material in a nearly two-hour production.

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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Jackie’ at City Center by Claudia La Rocco

“Jackie,” starring Tina Benko, is the writer Elfriede Jelinek’s theatrical take on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

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Friday, March 1, 2013

Theater Review: ‘The Mnemonist of Dutchess County,’ at the Beckett Theater by Claudia La Rocco

Everybody is on the make in “The Mnemonist of Dutchess County,” by Josh Koenigsberg, in which a synesthete with perfect memory is also out to get the girl.

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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Theater Review: ‘From White Plains,’ at Pershing Square Signature Center by Claudia La Rocco

“From White Plains” is a drama about homophobic bullying, vengeance, and perhaps taking it all too far.

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Grimly Handsome,’ at Incubator Arts Project by Claudia La Rocco

In “Grimly Handsome,” by Julia Jarcho, costumes switch, sets move, and the action snaps into another theatrical dimension.

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Theater Review: ‘There There,’ by Kristen Kosmas, at the Chocolate Factory by Claudia La Rocco

In Kristen Kosmas’s new play, the actor Christopher Walken (who appears in name only) meets with an unfortunate accident involving a ladder, setting off a chain of events.

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Theater Review: ‘Faust: A Love Story,’ at BAM by Claudia La Rocco

Two Icelandic troupes bring the morality tale “Faust: A Love Story” to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Theater Review: ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ at the Gramercy Arts Theater by Claudia La Rocco

The four actors in the new Spanish-language play based on Gabriel García Márquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera” portray characters over many decades, making them symbols.

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Theater Review: ‘Ich, Kürbisgeist’ by Sibyl Kempson at Chocolate Factory by Claudia La Rocco

It’s difficult to make out a lot of what is happening in “Ich, Kürbisgeist,” which has its own dialect, but it is still, somehow, powerful.

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards