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Two deceased Black female playwright's works, personal Off-Off-Broadway shows, and two Broadway revivals were highlights of the New York stage this year.
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Matt de Rogatis is awesome as a disaffected Texas Vietnam veteran in this expanded adaptation of deceased Southern author James McLure's one-act play.
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Wade McCollum is phenomenal as a now obscure mid-20th century gay male performer and writer in this exhilarating biographical solo show with music.
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Dianne Wiest is magnificent as a 75-year-old Wisconsin widow who moves to LA to make it show business in this zany odyssey that is given an epic production.
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Sean Young is triumphant as a washed-up B actress in this uproarious yet poignant exploration of old Hollywood's underside; four sad tales are enacted.
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John Turturro is titanic in this euphoric stage adaptation of Philip Roth's acclaimed novel about a mentally unraveling 64-year-old licentious puppeteer.
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W. Somerset Maugham's scintillating 1926 social comedy is given a fizzy revival by a NYC-based theater company devoted to artists over the age of 50.
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David Dean Bottrell's self-written solo show is an entertaining personal exploration about death comprised of well-crafted short, intertwined episodes.
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European Jewish collaboration with the Germans during the Holocaust is dramatized in this searing immersive presentation which is set in a bustling café.
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French sculptor Camille Claudel's tumultuous life and tempestuous relationship with Auguste Rodin are dramatized in this absorbing theatrical depiction.
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Patrick Page enraptures with one towering Shakespearean characterization after another in his enthralling and erudite self-created theatrical solo show.
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This heartfelt and dynamically enacted solo performance piece explores a trans person's pre-transition existence through comedic and dramatic sequences.
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Charlotte Booker is dazzling as the complex "The Bride of Frankenstein" English actress in her imaginative self-written solo biographical fantasia
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A Lana Turner-style murdered mobster boyfriend, a framed daughter and reptilian religious cultists feature in this high-energy campy musical spoof.
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Three brilliant actors portray multiple characters in this entrancing stripped-down faithful theatricalization of Dostoevsky's classic 1866 novel.
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James Daly is the ideal Count in this comically sexy spoof of the familiar tale; it is laden with homoeroticism, gender-bending and jokey anachronisms.
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Three magnetic fabulously clad comic actors enact this imaginative fantasia based on the 7th century tale of the Irish St. Dymphna's martyrdom.
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Veteran actor David Dean Bottrell hilariously and insightfully chronicles his life journey from Kentucky to NYC and LA, in his entertaining solo show.
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Screen actor Lin Shaye appealingly performs her autobiographical self-written solo play dealing with love and loss in 1960's dreamy and druggy California.
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This spirted small-scale revival of the affectionate and faithful spoof of Anton Chekov's "The Seagull" is wonderfully performed and inventively presented.
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Four tremendous Chicago actors perform in this impeccably written contemporary American drama set on a Wisconsin prairie; it is entrancingly presented.
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An absorbing performance art piece featuring surrealistic vignettes, a variety of curtains and pseudoscience; it is vividly presented and performed.
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Charismatic New Zealand-born performer Catherine Waller is bewitching in her highly theatrical solo show which is comprised of dark vignettes.
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Masha King is towering as a young Jewish woman in Poland who survives internment at three concentration camps in this powerful Holocaust dramatization.
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A youthful, animated and entrancing ensemble portray the six members of a NYC college improv comedy troupe in this affective and bittersweet major play.
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