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Thursday, August 17, 2023

At Edinburgh Fringe, Small Shows With Big Ambitions by Houman Barekat

This year, the stronger productions in the open-to-all event were on a par with many in the more prestigious, curated Edinburgh International Festival.

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Friday, August 11, 2023

At the Edinburgh Festival, Wrestling With Identity by Houman Barekat

In plays from Scotland, Korea and Switzerland, theater companies explored questions of belonging, with varying degrees of success.

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Thursday, August 10, 2023

Edinburgh Festival Review: ‘Food’ Is an Acquired Taste by Houman Barekat

At the Edinburgh Festival, Geoff Sobelle presents a dinner party as a theatrical spectacle, in which silliness is the end in itself.

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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Can ‘Miss Saigon’ Be Saved? Two British Shows Disagree. by Houman Barekat

A revival reimagines the polarizing musical for the 21st century while a new show offers a bawdy riposte.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2023

‘Dear England’ Review: When Soccer Success Becomes a Moral Victory by Houman Barekat

A new James Graham play about the soccer coach Gareth Southgate is a lively romp, but its core message about embracing male vulnerability feels soppy.

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Friday, May 26, 2023

Review: In ‘Aspects of Love,’ Some Problematic Attachments by Houman Barekat

A London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s partner-swapping musical is a camp amoral romp. But is this obsession really the same as romance?

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Thursday, April 13, 2023

Review: In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare Becomes Soap Opera by Houman Barekat

The Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s hit 2020 novel is elegant and tasteful — but also formulaic and sentimental.

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Review: ‘Berlusconi: A New Musical’ Is Hammy and Hamstrung by Houman Barekat

The show, in London, skewers its protagonist through maximalist kitsch, but it comes with a tone of finger-wagging moralism that’s no fun.

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Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Review: ‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’ in London by Houman Barekat

The British experimental theater company Complicité turns the Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s novel “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” into a thought-provoking, entertaining…

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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

‘Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons’ Review: A Thought Exercise, Without Deep Thoughts by Houman Barekat

On London’s West End, Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman star in a lightly dystopian comedy that succeeds as a portrait of a troubled couple, but falls short as political satire.

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