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To paraphrase possibly its greatest tune: It's still got life, brother.
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Faith or no faith, whatever denomination you wish to call yourself, Passion Play more than lives up to its title.
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By now, I'm sure many of us have read about Setoodeh's infamous Newsweek piece about gay actors.
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Brian Kulick's herky-jerky production is never quite sure what to do with the great Dianne Wiest.
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Somehow a fully-cast sextet sloppily became a quartet in Beth Henley's logy, often risible play Family Week.
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Perhaps the biggest question surrounding this show is why it's even on Broadway in the first place.
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Sometimes an actor just has to come home to roost to rediscover just what they were put out there for in the first place.
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This adaptation is striking for the way that it both softens the edges of and preserves the problematic acidity of August Strindberg's play.
The post <em>Creditors</em> at the BA…
Signal the thunderclaps: Stephen Sondheim turned 80 this year, and everyone is partyin' like it's 1999 for the man.
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The few mistakes occurring amid the gravity-defying craziness only served to illustrate just how beautifully close to disaster these performances always are.
The post A Bug's Life: Cirque du…
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is historical revisionism for the late-term SNL era.
The post Am I Too Old for This Shit?: <em>Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson</em> at the Public Theate…
If you're ready to have a gay old time, the funny flurries are showering New York these days.
The post Silly Boys and Girls (and Puppets): <em>Lend Me a Tenor</em> and <em>…
A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick feels woefully under-rehearsed when not just plain amateurish.
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Two Gentlemen of Lebowski frustratingly smirks at the concept of removing the Coens' film from its context.
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There's a lot going on in its 75 minutes, and it's great to see someone truly using the vast entirety of the wonderful Ellen Stewart Theater at La MaMa.
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The enchanting spell of New York City shall likely draw Oklahomans, in all number of ways, for years to come.
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Dylan Baker, always a reliable assist in stage and film, does work that is nothing short of transformative.
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Suzan-Lori Parks's blackly comic Southern gothic is sprinkled with poetic assertions on postwar distress and home-life abuses.
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Next Fall isn't about "old" times per se, but its content seems firmly rooted in the seriocomic patterns of seasoned old pros.
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Despite its historical nature, The Temperamentals is anything but a dry history lesson.
The post Great Performances: <em>The Temperamentals</em> and <em>Venus in Fur</em…
Sure, Martin McDonagh is still pushing the envelope"but to where?
The post <em>A Behanding in Spokane</em> at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre appeared first on Slant Magazine.
It's awfully hard not to feel like you're missing something throughout this Miracle Worker.
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Here is a tragedy told with absolutely no momentum.
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A gay renaissance appears to be hitting NYC theater these days.
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The strength of Clybourne Park lies in how Bruce Norris keeps subverting the types represented.
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