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The zeitgeist doesn't bode well for top-flight musical theater scores. Unless...
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★★★★ The Mitu Theater Group reworks Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" for emphatic new meaning
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★★★★ Carrie Cracknell forcibly directs tough-minded one-acts by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne
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★★★★★ Charlotte Moore directs the praise-worthy Barry Day-devised-and-written compilation
The post Love, Noël: Steve Ross, KT Sullivan Honor the Great Coward…
★★ Audience members get to participate in the six-actor send-up, directed and choreographed by Lorin Latarro
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★★★★ Elaine Murphy's engaging play features Marsha Mason, Brenda Meany, and Lauren O'Leary
The post Little Gem: Three Generations in One Family Work It All Out appear…
★★★ Isaac Gomez asks Kate del Castillo and director Jo Bonney to make his overdone drama lucid
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There must be method to playwright Halley Feiffer's current madness.
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Despite predictable drawbacks, Chris Urch's theatrical indictment is an important work of art.
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★★★★★ An over-the-top universe, directed by Laurie Woolery and choreographed by Hope Boykin
The post Promenade: Al Carmines, Maria Irene Fornés Commit the Perf…
★★★★ Dick Scanlan directs, Todd Almond music directs a longed-for, honest show-biz reunion
The post Twohander: Sherie Rene Scott & Leo Norbert Butz Are Friends(?)…
★★★★ Studs Terkel's classic interviews with Tilly the Toiler, Tommy the Tiller, and others are musicalized with class and concern
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★★★★ Micheál mac LÃammoÃr's couldn't-be-more-Irish play, keenly directed by Aidan Redmond
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An autobiographical musical about an autobiographical musical about -- well, you know.
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★★★★ An expert cast, directed expertly by Jeff Wise, has fun tossing a Chekhovian theme salad
The post Life Sucks: Playwright Aaron Posner Fun-Fools With Anton Chek…
★★★★★ Danielle Brooks as Beatrice and Grantham Coleman as Benedick lead the superb revival
The post Much Ado About Nothing: Director Kenny Leon Sees Shakespeare…
★★ The classic American novel updated according to current gender-shifting attitudes
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The playwright thinks he's offering us shocks. They register more like mild nudges.
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★★★ Playwright Ching is close to getting her California-based drama on the right contemporary path
The post Nomad Motel: Carla Ching's Play Pits Parents vs. Children, Sort…
Playwright Terrence McNally can be greatly thanked -- especially in the light of the moon.
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★★★★★ She's 86 but hardly 86ed in a jubilant celebration of an on-stage life
The post Chita Rivera: The Cabaret Act of This Year and Other Years? You Bet appear…
More reactions to a diverse, generally rewarding current London season--and like-able Sally Field
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★★★★ Eight singer-actors, under Annie Tippe's flawless direction, sing out 12-Step woes
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★★ Director Erica Schmidt wrongly thinks that a girls-school spin is how to treat the Bard
The post Mac Beth: Light Not Only Thickens But Goes Out on Will's Classic appeared firs…
Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill receive smart revivals, Anton Chekhov not so much
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