471 stories by "Michael Sommers"
★★☆☆☆ A potential concept for timely Shakespeare works better in theory than onstage at TFANA
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★★★☆☆ Mary Kate O Flanagan shares affirmative stories in a winning debut at Irish Rep
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★★★☆☆ Elevator Repair Service delivers a mad gallery of James Joyce's Dubliners
The post From Under the Radar: Ulysses appeared first on New York Stage Review.
The annual theater festival continues with a poignant Australian import, a cancellation, and an installation
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Fresh works from Ireland and Japan arrive in the opening week of the annual festival of innovative theater
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★★★☆☆ Kenny Leon strategically stages Gian Carlo Menotti's 45-minute chamber opera
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★★★☆☆ Michael Cerveris is Scrooge in a Holiday Return of the Matthew Warchus/Old Vic show
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★★★☆☆ A 15-member ensemble spins through the musical rise and fall of a patriarchal society
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★★★☆☆ Nazareth Hassan's new backstage dramedy studies process and power
The post Practice: Theater Games and Mind Games appeared first on New York Stage Review.
★★★★☆ Andrea Martin sparks David Cromer's Second Stage premiere of a meaningful comedy of racial identity
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★★☆☆☆ Ruthie Ann Miles shines amid Ethan Lipton's respectful musical version of a mad Thornton Wilder classic
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★★★☆☆ Patrick Page blazes as a Balkans terrorist in Rajiv Joseph's what-if World War I history play
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★★★☆☆ Anne Washburn's absorbing study of collective existence melts into something else at the finish line
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★★★☆☆ Stephen Kunken is good as a bad guy in a new Royal Shakespeare drama about special interests and global warming
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★★☆☆☆ Expect trashy doings, nonstop name drops, insults, and murder done for fun
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★★★★☆ Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock deliver poignant performances in Samuel D. Hunter's quietly lovely drama
The post Little Bear Ridge Road: Destination Uncer…
★★★☆☆ Jeb Brown and Matt Rodin head a sweet show done in honky-tonk environs
The post Beau the Musical: Queer as Folk Music appeared first on New York Stage Rev…
★★★☆☆ A scathing Aubrey Plaza and sharp others, plus Nellie McKay, light up Ethan Coen's new comedies
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★★☆☆☆ Jordan E. Cooper delivers a multifarious father and son drama, with songs
The post Oh Happy Day!: Too Much Mo' appeared first on New York Stage Review.
★★☆☆☆ Mint Theater discovers a 1935 drama about the Nazi takeover of German society
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★★★☆☆ Comedian Abby Wambaugh delivers an appealing solo show at Dixon Place
The post The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows: Scare the Banana and Other Tales of a Non-…
★★★☆☆ Tim Blake Nelson unveils a dark, pervasively dystopian tale at La MaMa
The post And Then We Were No More: Talk of Technology in Totalitarian Times appeare…
★★★☆☆ Michael Hayden and Samantha Mathis lead Irish Rep's premiere of an unexpected thriller
The post The Honey Trap: Dishing Out a Potent Blend of Genres appea…
★★☆☆☆ John Leguizamo delivers an ambitious new drama depicting a Latino-American family's troubles
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★★★☆☆ Richard Nelson's cozy new drama studies an acting troupe during wartime
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