The play depends especially on the strength of its leads, and here it has two eager thespians who make the most of its drama. The post Review: <em>Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lu…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:07PMDespite some realistic touches, Straight White Men, as directed by Anna D. Shapiro, goes to lengths to call out its artificiality. The post Review: Young Jean Lee’s <em>Straight Whit…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:13PMAs a performer, Joshua Jackson is sober and endearing, projecting goodness. The post Review: Joshua Jackson Soars in <em>Children of a Lesser God</em> at Studio 54 appeared first…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 05:51PMWhen Measure for Measure’s noisy stage business quiets down, Simon Godwin’s production is powerful. The post Theater Review: <em>Measure for Measure</em> at the Polonsky Shak…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:48PMThe revival of Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a funny and crushing production. The post Review: Martin McDonagh’s <em>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</em> at BA…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:49PMThe show gravitates toward campy burlesque, but the creators have their fun and eat it too. The post Review: <em>Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812</em> with Josh Grob…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 10:23AMThis production is shadelessly lit for much of its runtime, evoking the drama’s openness, or at least its frankness. The post The Longest Day: <em>Long Day’s Journey into Night<…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 06:29PMI was so stunned by how many fucks it didn’t give that I stopped wondering if I was laughing with it or at it and wondered if my laughter transcended it. The post Totally Psycho: <em>…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 06:38PMThe stage is an icy expanse and the narrative and the lives of its characters are just as flat as this Midwestern freeze. The post Quiet on the Midwestern Front: Louis Jenkins’s <em>…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 05:08PMThe aesthetic of the play flows into the acting by veterans of the Wooster Group and Elevator Repair Service. The post Charting an Even Unfeeling: Richard Maxwell’s <em>Isolde</em…
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