Orange Lemon Egg Canary

"It's Magic Time!" as George S. Kaufman used to say when the lights went down and the curtain went up. Playwright Rinne Groff takes this literally in her fun, fantastic and fatalistic play a…

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The Scene

As spectacularly evoked by set designer Kris Stone, the skyline provides an awesome backdrop for Theresa Rebeck's inexorably caustic and darkly funny play about winners and losers in the ent…

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US Drag

The title US Drag comes from a quote by William Burroughs and actually contains no drag whatsoever. It is an entertaining treatise on the lure of fame and money.

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Paradise Park

Charles Mee's first two plays at the Signature followed his half and half construction method: Building half the play out of one or more classical texts and then, as Mee explains it, "lettin…

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Lower Ninth

Set during Hurricane Katrina. With nothing to do but wait for life saving helicopters to rescue them before the heat, thirst and hunger does them in, E-Z and Malcolm hash out their problemat…

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Take Me Along

Valentine's Day is gone but the sentiments of old-fashioned love are still wafting through the air in the Irish Repertory's romantically-scented revival of this generally underrated musical.

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Passing Strange

Stew's journey from California to Amsterdam and Berlin has now taken the theatrical equivalent of the route around Cape Horn.

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The Guest at Central Park West

There's something startlingly original and unexpected in this play, something that keeps it moving, even over the bumpy spots.

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The Adding Machine

Director David Cromer, composer Joshua Schmidt and his libretto partner Jason Loewith have managed to revitalize this much explored theme of the business world's dehumanization of an Everyma…

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Vita and Virginia

This epistolary two-hander has proved to be a nice nest egg featherer for Ms. Atkins — and a bravura acting opportunity for other actresses portraying its passionate friends and corres…

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Sunday in the Park With George

Director Buntrock will have you applauding the scenery, but the standing ovations will always be for Sondheim's music and lyrics.

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Brief Encounter

This is a mixed media production with some projection of black and white video starring the Kneehigh cast in mock ups of scenes from the film but projected onto a vertical slatted screen for…

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Speed the Plow

With two Hollywood actors in a satire of their own world, Mamet's sharp, witty play is performed with manic energy and a sense of fun camaraderie.

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Mark Twain Blues

This play by Walter Stepp (with music and lyrics by Stepp and Twain), was inspired by the disagreement surrounding Huckleberry Finn's hi jinx ending.

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Unconditional

The clever linkage between the 9 characters and their cannily observed and expertly performed interchanges makes one want to forgive some of the more strained and oddly one-note, under-clari…

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Macbeth

Question: How do you transform a play that's been done and done and done into a provocative, brand-new experience? Answer: Have Rupert Goold, London's most imaginative young Shakespeare inte…

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Dickie and Babe

Daniel Henning has used trial transcripts, letters and other source material in his construction of the oft-told tale of the case of "Dickie" Loeb, 18, and "Babe" Leopold, 19, who murdered 1…

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The Homecoming

Another revival at London's Almeida.

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The Jazz Age

The writers and artists who came to prominence during the Jazz Age frequently show up as characters inplays. Allan Knee's bio-drama is a case in point.

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Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress

Rivers takes her 74 years and makes them work for her. She doesn't say this is only the beginning but it sure doesn't sound like Sayonara. More like Encore.

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Crimes of the Heart

It should have been rewarding to see the decidedly character-driven Crimes. . . return with a fine cast and with Kathleen Turner, making her New York directorial debut. This production, based on the 2007 Williamstown Theatre Festival production, however, falters in ways that are as baffling as they are disappointing.

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<cite>Next to Normal</cite>, reviewed by Elyse Sommer

Despite dramatically potent staging, fine performances, and a laudable score, Next to Normal is probably too realistically downbeat to "let there be light" vis-a-vis the rumors about its transfer to Broadway.

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Next to Normal

This has been quite a season for provocative straight plays, about dysfunctional families. Now we have such a story told to the accompaniment of a throbbing pop-rock score by Tom Kitt and bo…

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Dido, Queen of Carthage

Angels in the Architecture is a theatre company which concentrates on producing rarely-performed classics in even more rare places. Here, they revive their 2006 production ofChristopher Marl…

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Oroonoko

The U.S. premiere of Mr. Bandele's adaptation lifts Oroonoko out of its limitations as an early travel narrative and at the same time lifts its title character out of its shallow aspect as t…

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