1,549 stories by "David Finkle"
★★★★ The stand-up comic who does a lot of commanding the stage talks about his expanding family
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★★★★ Marcus Gardley pens a history play relevant to today's compromised feminist status
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★★★★ The comedienne looks back at several decades of being funny while dieting
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★★★★ John Strand pits conservatism against liberalism in a play as timely as they come
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★★★ The challenging story of a steel manufacturing family in 1933 Germany struggling to survive
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★★★ A woman hoping to make something of her life latches on to an ambivalent moviemaker
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★ John Wulp stage-adapts a medieval mystic's life at great length to small avail
The post The Saintliness of Margery Kempe: Saint or Sinner? Not Worth Deciding appeared first on New Yo…
★★★★ Mike Poulton adapts Robert Harris' Cicero novels for Gregory Doran's surging two parts
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Gains and loses from Brian Friel, Oscar Wilde and Nina Raine on three crackling stages
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Baz Luhrman's dance flick, Muriel Spark's novel take the stage, Strindberg's Miss Julie doesn't take
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★★★★ Donja R. Love looks unflinchingly at lynchings and their aftermaths in the deep South
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★★★★ Chukwudi Iwuji, Corey Stoll, Heather Lind, Alison Wright gorgeous in the Bard's jealousy screed
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★★★ Jerry Mitchell directs-choreographs Donna McKechnie, Georgia Engel, André De Shields in a not-great Chorus Line take on aging dancers
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★★★★ Bookwriter-lyricist Peter Kellogg and composer David Friedman go west for a fun and frolicsome take on Shakespeare's "problem" play
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★ Elevator Repair Service goes at Edward Albee's classic to embarrassing results
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★★★★★ David Byrne's treatise involving culture hero Jacob Bronowski is dramatically ascendent
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★★★★ Eve Wolf's book calls on actors and musicians to prove argument about aural emotions
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★★★ The wonderful Lois Smith, directed by Lila Neugebauer, in Lily Thorne's well-cast death watch
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★★★ Susan Stroman, David Thompson and John Kander get Irina Dvorovenko, Tony Yazbeck on their toes
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★★★★★ A fascinating tribute to the late, great Polish director/author and his Cricot 2 company
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★ Emily Mann directs favorite Durang actor Kristine Nielsen, others to skimpy payoff
The post Turning Off the Morning News: New Durang Satirical Sketch Sketchy appeared first on New Yo…
★ The usually exceptional Maria Aitken runs into trouble directing a cast working overtime to no avail.
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★★★★★ Richard Eyre brilliantly directs Jeremy Irons, Lesley Manville, Rory Keenan and Matthew Beard
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★★ Playwright Philip Dawkins roams freely through the famous playwrights' related lives
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★★★ Rachel Chavkin directs a talk-heavy look back at Oliver Cromwell's civil war
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