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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Cast of 12 entertainingly "Icebound"


Icebound
Icebound - a fine revival of a long-ago Pulitzer winner Read More

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

An iconic film now an ingenious theatrical event




Scenes From a Marriage<
Scenes From a Marriage - Ingmar Bergman's classic problem marriage film appropriated by Ivo Van Hove and presented as a roundelay . . Read More

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Peter Brook still astonishes with Valley of Astonishment



 The Valley of Astonishment
The Valley of Astonishment - Holistically, this offers a rich experience for nearly all the senses (taste is covered by the Polonsky Shakespeare Center's newly opened cafe, aptly christened Food and Drink). . . Read More

Friday, September 19, 2014

a new, old-style kitchen sink drama



Almost Home
Almost Home - Home is yet another battleground for this home from the wars Marine . . Read Mo

stop tweeting long enough to catch this ode to letters

Love Letters  Love Letters - Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy launch the Broadway production of A. R. Gurney's 35-year-old epistolary 2-hander . . Read More

Friday, September 12, 2014

Kenneth Lonergan's youths still attention worthy


This Is Our Youth
This Is Our Youth - an insightful, gutsy, street-smart contemporary drama.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

#Robert O'Hara's sketch comedy often but not always funny



BootyCandy
Bootycandy - Robert O'Hara's assemblage of designed to shock sketches of growing up black and gay in America . . Read More

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 Bauer
Bauer - Lauren Gunderson's look at a once famous artist who chose to put down his brushes . . . Read More

Friday, September 5, 2014

Too much red meat too little satire in this new/old musica



Red Eye of Love
Red Eye of Love - Arnold Weistein's 1961 absurdist play gets a new composer on the last lap of its transformation into a musical, but it could also use a trim of its "meaty" humor . . Read More

Monday, September 1, 2014

The always witty richard Bean's Toast




Toast
Toast - Richard Bean brings his power of observation as well as the mischievous sense of the ridiculous in his wit to this early play . . Read More