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The play is told mainly in monologues by both actors on microphones, alternating with rehearsal scenes from the Gertrude/Hamlet confrontation. T…
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Romantic comedy was once the staple of Broadway. Today it turns up more often in the movies. When it appears on the stage it is fairly unusual t…
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Having commissioned evenings of one act plays by major American playwrights based on the short stories of Anton Chekhov and the sonnets of Willi…
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Experimental playwright/director Maxwell has a uniquely personal vision of theater. He has said in interviews that he directs his actors to be "…
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Aside from the wonderfully eclectic score by Almond (jazz, pop, Latin, blues, Broadway, gospel, folk music, etc.) who also acted as narrator and…
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In his 2005 "Mercury Fur," being given its belated Off Broadway premiere by The New Group under the direction of its intrepid artistic director …
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Everett Quinton has found the ideal vehicle in the hilarious "Drop Dead Perfect" to revive the style of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company for wh…
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Deborah Zoe Laufer's fascinating and engrossing "Informed Consent" tells three interlocking stories that eventually become one by the end. Under…
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The Broadway transfer of the acclaimed Off Broadway musical "Hamilton" has finally taken place and the show looks and sounds even more comfortab…
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At The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park venue, director Daniel Sullivan has proved himself a brilliant interpreter of the Bard's comedie…
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Series B of Summer Shorts 2015 is similar to Series A in that all three plays are also relationship dramas, here between a woman (or three women…
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Summer Shorts " Festival of New American Short Plays has returned to 59E59 Theaters for its 9th annual outing offering six world premieres by fa…
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Using a versatile cast of seven (Ito Aghayere, Patrick Boll, Marc delaCruz, Theresa McCarthy, Chinaza Uche, Barbara Walsh, and Zoe Wilson) who a…
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Yussef El Guindi's "Threesome" is really a political treatise in the guise of a romantic comedy. Engrossingly performed by Alia Attallah, Quinn …
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Definitely not for children, "Songs for the Fallen" is a sophisticated cabaret/vaudeville celebrating the decadent life. Its main character Mari…
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Of course, Mrs. Smith is the marvelous creation of writer/actor/performance artist David Hanbury and director Andrew Rasmussen, based on a chara…
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A very powerful and topical theme runs though Penny Jackson's play, "I Know What Boys Want," but the author's understandable anger leads to a go…
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For PTP/NYC (Potomac Theatre Project)'s 29th season they have chosen to pair one-acts by two of their favorite playwrights, Howard Barker and Ca…
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Plays about three very different sisters go back to Shakespeare's "King Lear." In modern times, the topic immediately recalls Chekhov's "Three S…
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Although "Sayonara, The Musical" had an acclaimed lavish production at Paper Mill Playhouse in 1987 and a later version at Houston's Theatre Und…
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The six members of the Lobbyists make up the cast along with Raymond Sicam III (on cello) who perform all of the characters as well as play all …
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While this is a fascinating idea, anyone who has worked in theater will tell you that Tech rehearsals are long and tedious with all the stopping…
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His new play "Gloria" goes in another direction, a scathing satire of the media (magazine work, book publishing and television development) as w…
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Much of the play is directed using Brecht's so-called alienation effect in which the audience is constantly reminded that this is all a play, a …
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Rajiv Joseph's plays are filled with emotional or physical violence as in "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," "Gruesome Playground Injuries" or "…
