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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Theater Review: ‘17 Orchard Point,’ a Tale of a Strained Family by Laura Collins-Hughes

“17 Orchard Point,” by Anton Dudley and Stephanie DiMaggio, is no heartwarming parent-child love fest.

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Friday, May 2, 2014

Theater Review: ‘Peddling,’ in Brits Off Broadway, Plumbs a Youth’s Soul by Laura Collins-Hughes

In “Peddling,” written and performed by Harry Melling, a young man tries to scratch out a living selling “life’s essentials” door to door.

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Thursday, May 1, 2014

John Noble in ‘The Substance of Fire’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

John Noble, the Australian actor perhaps best known for his roles in “Lord of the Rings” and the TV series “Fringe,” is making his New York theater debut in “The Substance of Fire.…

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Theater Review: In ‘Tough Titty,’ a Family Confronts Breast Cancer by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Oni Faida Lampley’s semi-autobiographical play, the mother of a newborn and her family deal with breast cancer.

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

The Women of ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

A conversation with LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Anika Noni Rose and Sophie Okonedo, now starring with Denzel Washington in the Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s drama.

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Friday, April 18, 2014

Theater Review: ‘Ubu Sings Ubu’ Adapts ‘Ubu Roi’ With Pere Ubu’s Music by Laura Collins-Hughes

“Ubu Sings Ubu” mixes a Google Translate version of the 1896 scatological satire “Ubu Roi” with songs by the experimental rock band Pere Ubu.

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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Theater Review: ‘A Respectable Widow,’ About an Unusual Friendship by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Brits Off Broadway festival brings a double bill of “A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity” and “Clean” to 59E59 Theaters.

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Friday, March 28, 2014

‘The Mysteries’ Rewrites a Medieval Tradition by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ed Sylvanus Iskandar needed four dozen playwrights to create “The Mysteries,” almost six hours of brand-new Bible stories based on an English medieval tradition.    

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Theater Review: ‘Jasper in Deadland’ Is a Musical About the Underworld by Laura Collins-Hughes

In “Jasper in Deadland,” Matt Doyle charms his way into the underworld to find his dead best friend.    

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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Theater Review: ‘The Real Americans’ Is a Familiar Road Trip by Laura Collins-Hughes

Dan Hoyle’s solo show “The Real Americans” channels America’s just plain folks with compassion and respect, even as it comments on our national inability to understand one another.&n…

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Theater Review: ‘The Shape of Something Squashed’ Takes a Poke at Actors by Laura Collins-Hughes

Billed as a comedy, “The Shape of Something Squashed” means in part to gibe the ruthless self-absorption of successful artists, but it also offers a portrait of an actor as an almost inv…

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Theater Review: ‘London Wall,’ an Old Romantic Comedy Resurrected by Laura Collins-Hughes

“London Wall,” a 1931 office comedy by John van Druten, depicts the limited choices available to working women then.    

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Friday, February 21, 2014

Theater Review: Jonatha Brooke’s ‘My Mother Has 4 Noses’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

The singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke, who wrote “My Mother Has 4 Noses,” performs it at the Duke on 42nd Street.    

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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Theater Review: Politics, History and Exile Are at Heart of ‘Transport’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

In its world premiere at Irish Repertory Theater, “Transport” floats along on the strength of a fiddle- and flute-filled score, but lacks emotional depth.    

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Theater Review: In ‘Sotto Voce,’ a Recluse Falls for a Voice on the Phone by Laura Collins-Hughes

In “Sotto Voce,” an 80-year-old recluse is led by a researcher into reliving her first love, who was a passenger aboard an ill-fated ship of Jewish refugees in 1939.   &nb…

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Monday, February 10, 2014

Theater Review: ‘Actress Fury,’ a Dance-Theater Work Set in a Dressing Room by Laura Collins-Hughes

In “Actress Fury,” a dance-theater piece at the Bushwick Starr, three performers join in playing a single striving actress.    

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Theater Review: In ‘The Wong Kids,’ a Sister and a Brother Turn Superheroes by Laura Collins-Hughes

In “The Wong Kids” at LaMama’s Ellen Stewart Theater, siblings find super powers to fight off the bullies.    

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Sunday, January 19, 2014

Theater Review: ‘Have I No Mouth’ Plumbs the Depths of an Irish Family by Laura Collins-Hughes

“Have I No Mouth,” part of P.S. 122’s Coil Festival, puts a mother, a son and their psychotherapist on stage in an exploration of loss.    

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Theater Review: A Fractious House Party Unfolds in ‘I Could Say More’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

In “I Could Say More,” a play written by and starring Chuck Blasius at the Hudson Guild Theater, a writer’s beach house party devolves into tumult.    

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Monday, January 13, 2014

Theater Review: ‘Muazzez,’ a Monologue Based on a Mac Wellman Story by Laura Collins-Hughes

“Muazzez” takes a Mac Wellman short story and turns it into a monologue.    

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Mayhem and Majesty,’ at 59E59 Theaters by Laura Collins-Hughes

Squonk Opera’s “Mayhem and Majesty” tries to answer a question: “What does music look like?”    

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Theater Review: ‘La Divina Caricatura’ at La MaMa by Laura Collins-Hughes

“La Divina Caricatura” at La MaMa finds Lee Breuer and Mabou Mines exploring an interspecies love story.    

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Theater Review: In ‘Love, Linda,’ Stevie Holland Imagines Mrs. Cole Porter by Laura Collins-Hughes

The wife of Cole Porter has her say in “Love, Linda,” at the York Theater Company.    

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Black Wizard/Blue Wizard’ at St. Mark’s Church by Laura Collins-Hughes

In “Black Wizard/Blue Wizard,” a musical and a battle, two forces vie for the chance to defeat the Great Mediocrity.    

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Monday, December 2, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Mary-Kate Olsen Is in Love’ Is a New Comedy at Flea Theater by Laura Collins-Hughes

In “Mary-Kate Olsen Is in Love,” Grace is a 27-year-old who craves distraction from her disillusionment, and that’s when the Olsen twins arrive.    

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Love Machines by Laura Collins-Hughes

In “The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence,” now at Playwrights Horizon, Madeleine George explores how people have tried to circumvent the uncertainty of relationships with techno…

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Friday, November 15, 2013

Theater Review | 'This Is My Office': In ‘This Is My Office,’ Andy Bragen Looks Within by Laura Collins-Hughes

“This Is My Office” is a semiautobiographical solo play in which a man contemplates the complicated relationship he had with his father.    

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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Theater Review: ‘Water,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival by Laura Collins-Hughes

“Water,” from the British companies Filter Theater and Lyric Hammersmith, pours creative light and sound into a multicharacter tale about the environment.    

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David Harewood and Orlando Bloom on Shakespearean Warm-Ups by Laura Collins-Hughes

David Harewood, Orlando Bloom and other actors tell how they meet the technical demands of performing Shakespeare.    

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Friday, August 9, 2013

In a Theater Mecca, ‘Fringe’ Tends to Mean Choosy by Laura Collins-Hughes

The New York International Fringe Festival, which opened on Friday, relies on a jury of curators to assemble its lineup, which leads some critics to argue that it’s not exactly a “fringe…

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Monday, July 22, 2013

Harbor Lights Takes Root on Staten Island by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Harbor Lights Theater Company is trying to make theater on Staten Island more than an afterthought.    

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