David Schulner’s An Infinite Ache speeds us through the lives of a man and woman from their first date to their old age in 90 minutes.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:50AMWorking for a tyrannical boss is no fun. Neither is Leslye Headland’s tired attempt to wring comedy from the situation.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:19AMWhen the Christian polemicist C.S. Lewis meets Sigmund Freud— who considered God an illusion— whom do you root for? Mark St. Germain’s imagined meeting between two brilliant men crackl…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:05AMHaving grown up ambivalently Jewish, Abigail Pogrebin embarked on an intriguing project: to interview famous Jews about their Jewishness. The new musical based on her book is equally intrigu…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:07AMJohn Logan’s Red dramatizes the ageless tension between art and commerce. Yet not every artist was as angry and even paranoiac as Mark Rothko.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:56AMThis adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank is different from— and better than— the 1955 version you grew up with. Among other things, it’s less squeamish about Anne’s adolescent awkw…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:53AMUnlike its earlier productions, here the harsh words of August: Osage County derive less from anger than desperation; the worst of the characters come across as victims, not monsters. The Ar…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:05AMThe Walnut’s new production of Miss Saigon reaffirms the quality of its authors’ work when they were at their short-lived peak. This play is more compact and focused than Les Miz, and mo…
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