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Monday, March 19, 2012

Theater Review: ‘Lucky Duck’ at the New Victory Theater by Eric Grode

“Lucky Duck,” a reboot of “The Ugly Duckling” billed for 4-to-8-year-olds, features babes in the dark woods of show business.

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Arts & Leisure: Tom Hewitt, Pilate in ‘Superstar,’ Indulges in Villains by Eric Grode

Tom Hewitt, previously a vampire, a tiger and a swindler, now takes on Pilate in the Broadway revival of “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Theater Review: ‘Hindsight,’ by Simon Van Booy, at the Drilling Company Theater by Eric Grode

In Simon Van Booy’s “Hindsight,” a chance encounter between two women develops into a revealing exchange.

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Monday, March 12, 2012

Ethan Lipton’s ‘No Place to Go,’ at Joe’s Pub by Eric Grode

Ethan Lipton, a singer and songwriter, has written a musical ode to unemployment called “No Place to Go,” which opens at Joe’s Pub on Wednesday.

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Monday, March 5, 2012

How “Tribes” Communicates by Eric Grode

Nina Raine’s new play inventively stages the deaf experience — Even when the words in Tribes are delivered via newly empowered hands or innovatively placed surtitles, they have t…

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Theater Review: ‘Tokio Confidential,’ a Musical, at Atlantic Stage 2 by Eric Grode

“Tokio Confidential” at Atlantic Stage 2 is a comically lurid tale that bases several characters’ names on those in James’s “Portrait of a Lady.”

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Theater Review: ‘Botanica,’ a Drama Directed by Jim Findlay by Eric Grode

In Jim Findlay’s “Botanica,” at the 3LD Art and Technology Center, scientists grow a little too close to the flora they’re experimenting with.

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Monday, February 6, 2012

Marylouise Burke Gets Seriously Funny by Eric Grode

In “Rx,” the actress finds the softer side of her comic chops The Playbill for Rx, now being produced by Primary Stages, casts Marylouise Burke in a familiar light: She’s l…

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Friday, February 3, 2012

In Its Next Life a Song Cycle Is a Musical by Eric Grode

The Prospect Theater Company’s revamped version of Adam Guettel’s “Myths and Hymns” has the potential to convince theaters everywhere that the piece is viable as a stage property.

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Theater Review: ‘Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din’ at Bushwick Starr by Eric Grode

The theater company Van Cougar mashes up staged snippets of Hollywood war movies with testimonials from real-life veterans in “Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din.”

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Monday, January 23, 2012

A Pillar of the (Irish Rep) Community by Eric Grode

A theatre makes an asset of its unusual space Actors have clambered up it. Paintings have hung on it, as have flags and bunting. It has been a fence post, a ship mast, a tiny house and (on n…

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Theater Review | 'The Fall to Earth': ‘The Fall to Earth’ at 59E59 Theaters - Review by Eric Grode

Mourning affects a family in strange ways in “The Fall to Earth,” a drama at 59E59 Theaters.

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Monday, January 9, 2012

Theater Review | 'Chimera': ‘Chimera’ at Here Arts Center - Review by Eric Grode

Part of the Under the Radar festival, “Chimera,” created by Suli Holum and Deborah Stein, considers a character who carries more than one set of chromosomes.

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Friday, January 6, 2012

Americans As “Outside People” by Eric Grode

Matthew Dellapina plays a Yankee adrift in China Theatre is full of men and women mystified, rattled, and even paralyzed by alien surroundings. From Agamemnon to Blanche DuBois, from Nick an…

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Building Character: Jefferson Mays by Eric Grode

The Tony-winning actor plays a spy in “Blood and Gifts” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about how actors create their roles The first time we meet…

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Arts & Leisure: Critics Look Back at Favorite Stage Moments of 2011 by Erik Piepenburg, Catherine Rampell, David Rooney, Scott Heller, Patrick Healy, Eric Grode, Jason Zinoman and Andy Webster

Critics and writers for The New York Times recall their favorite moments onstage in 2011, some of them happening in the smallest and most offbeat of places.

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Theater Review | 'Shlemiel the First' : ‘Shlemiel the First’ at Skirball Center - Review by Eric Grode

“Shlemiel the First,” a musical drawn from the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer that played in New York briefly in 1994, is being revived at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Theater Review | 'Bai Xi': Cirque Shanghai’s ‘Bai Xi’ at New Victory - Review by Eric Grode

Cirque Shanghai’s “Bai Xi,” at the New Victory Theater, includes plenty of moves that children shouldn’t do at home.

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Friday, December 2, 2011

Doing Time on “Maple and Vine” by Eric Grode

Marin Ireland dives into a weird and pretty world When in doubt, Marin Ireland sends her mother the script. That’s always important in determining whether Mama Ireland will be comforta…

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Friday, November 25, 2011

Theater Review | 'Richard II': Shakespeare’s ‘Richard II,’ From the Pearl Theater Company - Review by Eric Grode

Sean McNall, a former Hamlet for the Pearl Theater Company, steps into the shoes of Shakespeare’s king in this production from the same company.

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Friday, November 18, 2011

Theater Review: ‘She Kills Monsters,’ by Qui Nguyen at the Flea - Review by Eric Grode

Qui Nguyen’s play “She Kills Monsters” centers on a woman’s discovery of her dead sister’s role-playing game.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Theater Review | 'Burmese Days': ‘Burmese Days’ at 59E59 Theaters - Review by Eric Grode

Thickets of George Orwell’s robust prose fill the stage in Ryan Kiggell’s adaptation of “Burmese Days.”

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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Theater Review | '69°S.': ‘69°S.’ at BAM Harvey Theater - Review by Eric Grode

In the Phantom Limb production “69°S.,” at the BAM Harvey Theater, Ernest Shackleton and five of his shipwrecked crew members are portrayed by marionettes.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Building Character: Enid Graham by Eric Grode

The actress tackles Goneril’s villainy in “King Lear” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles — I…

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Friday, October 28, 2011

Dressing “Venus” by Eric Grode

  Designer Anita Yavich gets metaphysical for Broadway’s “Venus in Fur” Bags of tricks don’t get much deeper or kinkier than the one Vanda carries into her audition/ambush/apoth…

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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Theater Review | 'A Felony in Blue, or Death by Poker': ‘A Felony in Blue, or Death by Poker’ at Nuyorican Poets Cafe by Eric Grode

“A Felony in Blue, or Death by Poker,” by Daniel Gallant at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, focuses on five mob bosses and a suspicious dealer who hold a territory-carving card game.

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Monday, October 17, 2011

Why Sam Gold “Lives Here” by Eric Grode

A hot young director focuses on new work “It’s just some dream projects of mine that happened to find their way into the calendar in a strange way.” Sam Gold is describing …

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Theater Review | 'Nightlands': ‘Nightlands’ by Sylvan Oswald at Here Arts Center - Review by Eric Grode

“Nightlands” is a memory play set amid the uneasy racial tensions of Philadelphia in the early 1960s.

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Critic’s Notebook: Familiar Names Dot New York Musical Theater Festival by Eric Grode

The New York Musical Theater Festival has attracted some bigger names than usual, with mixed results.

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Julie Kavner Speaks “Relatively” by Eric Grode

  In a new Broadway comedy, the actress returns to Woody Allen’s world When Julie Kavner bought her ticket to see Midnight in Paris, she had no idea what she was in for. And that&…

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

An Eyebrow-Raising “Submission” by Eric Grode

  MCC’s new play tackles race and identity Call a Spade is the name of a daring new four-character play by Shaleeha G’ntamobi, who has been called “our next Lorraine&#…

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All that Chat

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