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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Review: Mike Albo’s Journey From Donor to Dad in ‘Spermhood’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mr. Albo’s new solo show, at Dixon Place, relates his immersion in the world of clinics and blood tests when he agrees to help his best friend become pregnant.

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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Review: ‘1599,’ a Mini-Marathon Devoted to Shakespeare’s Work that Year by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Irondale Ensemble explores four plays that he was writing in 1599.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Review: ‘Evening — 1910,’ a Slice of Life on the Bowery With Movies on the Horizon by Laura Collins-Hughes

This sung-through show at Axis Theater, from Randy Sharp and Paul Carbonara, looks and sounds good, but the story is a murk of confusion.

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Thursday, May 5, 2016

Touring the East Village’s Incubator of Experimentation by Laura Collins-Hughes

Performance Space 122, a center of arts innovation, is offering a mobile tour of sites related to creative performance in the neighborhood.

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For Paula Vogel, a Once-Banned ‘Beautiful’ Love Story Inspires Her New Play by Laura Collins-Hughes

Created with the director Rebecca Taichman, “Indecent” is inspired by Sholem Asch’s Yiddish play “The God of Vengeance.”

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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Review: ‘Crude,’ and That Refers to More Than Oil by Laura Collins-Hughes

Jordan Jaffe’s dark new eco-comedy stars Nico Tortorella as a callous young oil heir worried that his life may be ruined by a Gulf of Mexico spill.

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Review: An ‘Idiot,’ Telling a Tale by Laura Collins-Hughes

Structured as a response to Dostoyevsky, this production pares the cast to four.

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Monday, May 2, 2016

Review: In ‘The Place We Built,’ Politics Grip a Hungarian Bar by Laura Collins-Hughes

This Sarah Gancher play, set in Budapest, features a group deciding whether to fight a shutdown just as their country is shifting to the right.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Review: ‘The School for Scandal’ Is Full-Throated Satire by Laura Collins-Hughes

Red Bull Theater’s jaunty new production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s work is directed by Marc Vietor at the Lucille Lortel Theater.

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Monday, April 25, 2016

Review: Tina Satter’s ‘Ghost Rings,’ an Elliptical Tale of Lost Connections by Laura Collins-Hughes

This new production from Ms. Satter’s theater company, Half Straddle, combines a pop concert and a drama as it explores two relationships gone awry.

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Thursday, April 14, 2016

Alice Birch Speaks Softly and Writes Loud Plays by Laura Collins-Hughes

The British playwright’s American debut, “Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.,” is a call for feminist revolution with a ferocity absent from her personal demeanor.

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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Review: ‘Six Characters’ Excavates Past and Present, Inspired by Pirandello by Laura Collins-Hughes

This play, an investigation of family, creativity and home, takes its main inspiration from Luigi Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author.”

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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Review: In ‘Happily After Ever,’ a Couple’s Impossible Choice by Laura Collins-Hughes

Laura Zlatos’s play at 59E59 Theaters sets up a retro rom-com world of young marrieds and introduces a baby whose sex can’t be determined.

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Review: ‘Locusts Have No King,’ a Love Triangle Comedy by Laura Collins-Hughes

The four characters in J. Julian Christopher’s play consider this question: Is the priesthood a closet, a refuge or both?

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Monday, April 4, 2016

Review: ‘Wrestling Jerusalem,’ a Solo Show and Act of Faith by Laura Collins-Hughes

Aaron Davidman’s play about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict trusts in the power of the human voice and the capacity of the human heart.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Where There’s Smoke, There’s Stagecraft by Laura Collins-Hughes

On the care, feeding and wrangling of fog.

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Monday, March 21, 2016

Review: In ‘Typhoid Mary,’ Showtime for a Dying Patient by Laura Collins-Hughes

Carl Holder’s “An Intimate Evening With Typhoid Mary,” at the New Ohio Theater, mixes memory and cabaret.

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Friday, March 18, 2016

Review: ‘Ideation,’ About an Office Team’s Morally Disturbing New Project by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Aaron Loeb’s play at 59E59 Theaters, co-workers take on an assignment that involves mass murder and the disposal of bodies.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Review: In ‘Elijah Green,’ Archetypes in Search of Meaning by Laura Collins-Hughes

Andrew Ondrejcak’s play at the Kitchen examines characters inspired by Strindberg and Breugel.

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Monday, March 14, 2016

Review: In ‘Widowers’ Houses,’ Loving a Slumlord’s Daughter by Laura Collins-Hughes

George Bernard Shaw’s first play, highlighting the social ills of slums, is reframed as an individual’s moral struggle in this adaptation at Beckett Theater.

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Friday, March 4, 2016

Review: Tennessee Williams’s Late-Career Curiosities by Laura Collins-Hughes

Playhouse Creatures Theater Company presents two of the playwright’s one-acts from 1982, the year before he died.

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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Review: ‘A Room of My Own’ Recalls a Greenwich Village of 1979 by Laura Collins-Hughes

This Charles Messina play features Ralph Macchio and Mario Cantone as part of a brash Italian-American family unconcerned with political correctness.

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Learning to Act, but Hungry for Roles to Practice by Laura Collins-Hughes

A new program at colleges and universities aims at cultivating female playwrights and the creation of more female characters in their work.

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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Review: In ‘The Last Class: A Jazzercize Play,’ Clutching to the Past by Laura Collins-Hughes

This comedy by Megan Hill, a real-time dance class of sorts, delves into a fight against Zumba.

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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Review: In ‘Angel Reapers,’ Torment and Bliss, Hand in Hand, Seek Connection by Laura Collins-Hughes

Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry’s dance-theater piece follows a band of worshipers in stringent religion who are seeking refuge from worldly suffering.

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Monday, February 22, 2016

Review: In ‘The Good Girl,’ a Sexbot Gets Weepy by Laura Collins-Hughes

In the postapocalyptic dystopia of Emilie Collyer’s feminist sci-fi comedy, which darkens considerably as it goes along, intimacy is constrained.

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Sunday, February 21, 2016

Review: In ‘The Woodsman,’ a Love Lost in Oz Under a Witch’s Spell by Laura Collins-Hughes

James Ortiz’s play uses puppets and actors, chorus and a lone violin to reimagine the corner of L. Frank Baum’s Oz where the Tin Man came to be.

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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Marin Mazzie to Return to Broadway in ‘The King and I’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ms. Mazzie, who had to pause her career for cancer treatment last year, is to make her debut in the show on May 3.

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Friday, February 12, 2016

Review: ‘The Room,’ a Pinter Play That Won’t Be Onstage for Long by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Wooster Group’s production of Harold Pinter’s first play seems doomed not to be seen after Sunday.

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Friday, February 5, 2016

Review: ‘The Gambler,’ Dostoyevsky With Laughs by Laura Collins-Hughes

Glyn Maxwell’s stage adaptation, produced by Phoenix Theater Ensemble, focuses on a hapless tutor and a general with money problems.

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Thursday, February 4, 2016

Review: In ‘Washer/Dryer,’ a Marriage Goes Through the Spin Cycle by Laura Collins-Hughes

In this play by Nandita Shenoy, the only thing that stands in the way of blissful living is a co-op that a wife refuses to give up.

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