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★★★ John Doyle directs Corey Stoll's title warrior as too full of the milk of human kindness
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My, my -- how can I resist Harvey Fierstein in his new play, "Bella Bella"?
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★★ The McBeths, as they're now called, in a Lonny Price-directed Macbeth musical with an Adam Gwon score
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★★★★★ Jonathan Silverstein directs the deceptively quiet three-hander with surgical care
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★★★★★ Ntosake Shange's 1976 success revived with highest standards benevolently applied
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★★★ Dina Shihabi give a strong performance as a woman forced from Damascus, attempting to survive by any means
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★★★★ Mary-Louise Parker is strong as a creative-writing teacher with a talented, troubled student
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★★★★ Gerard Alessandrini is back with his usually delectable vengeance
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★★★ Director Trip Cullman takes the work, starring Marisa Tomei, to be only a comedy, but it's more than that
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★★★★ The 1965 Ben Bagley revue well treated by director Pamela Hunt, with Lee Roy Reams
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★★ The Coop's introductory production lacks substance, wastes the marvelous Andrus Nichols
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★★★ Paul David Young's drama eventually waxes metatheatrical to no heavy benefit
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★★★ Ross Golan's original musical looks at injustice but not with sufficient insight
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★★★ Liba Vaynberg's (autobiographical?) play views troubled romance during two disparate eras
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Harris' play is so scattershot that his many points, and the fireworks that generate, remain unhappily in chains.
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★★★ Jeff Augustin's play doesn't quite get to the bottom of a family's incipient dysfunction
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But why salt so much dialogue with, like, annoyingly contemporary expressions?
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★★★ How the onetime headline grabber deals with bipolar disorder and other exigencies
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★★★★ Fans will love what Bob Stevens imagines two Beatles get up to on a documented day off
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★★★ The playwright/actor questions how effective any understanding between the races can be
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★★★ Writer-director Beth Ann Hopkins fools with Shakespeare's King Lear for intriguing changes
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Actors Zawe Ashton and Charlie Fox add immeasurably to the playwright's most biographical work.
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★★★★ A raw look, directed by Sara Joyce, at what happens after a death that isn't exactly final
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★★ Playwright Jessica Hagedorn, composer Juan Obispo take on questionable healing clumsily
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★★★★ The 1997 Disney cartoon with Alan Menken-David Zippel score transfers under Lear deBessonet
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