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Sunday, December 5, 2010

Theater Review | 'Jackie Five-Oh!': Nursing Grudges With Acid by David Rooney

Jackie Hoffman caustically comments on her life so far (up to 50) and her theater career in “Jackie Five-Oh!,” at Joe’s Pub.

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Friday, December 3, 2010

Qualities of Mercy and Strength by David Rooney

Lily Rabe has come into her own playing Portia in “The Merchant of Venice” at an emotionally turbulent time: her mother, Jill Clayburgh, died last month.

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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Theater Review | 'Metamorphosis': Inhabiting a Six-Legged Nightmare: What Becomes a Monster Most? by David Rooney

An adaptation of Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music has been conceived with visual imagination and startling physical power.

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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Theater Review | 'Devil Boys From Beyond': Lingerie, Cone Bras and Odd Pregnancies by David Rooney

“Devil Boys From Beyond,” with Everett Quinton, is a campy all-male spoof of 1950s sci-fi B-movies.

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Theater Review | 'Personal Enemy': 1953 Politics, Paranoia and a Family Torn Apart by David Rooney

“Personal Enemy,” the play John Osborne wrote in 1953 with Anthony Creighton, deals with anti-Communist paranoia and homosexual persecution.

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Monday, November 15, 2010

Theater Review | 'Pieces': Parents Die, and Twins Turn Creepy by David Rooney

In “Pieces,” an ineffectual psycho-chiller at the Brits Off Broadway festival, no horror film sound effect goes unheard.

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