- 7/8/11 /
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Theater Review: The Diva Paradox of Master Class
The fine distinction between self-deluded and genuinely tragic.
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- 7/1/11 /
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Theater Review: Cirque du Soleil, Without Apologies
Zarkana: Barely rock, barely opera—but look at those folks fly!
- 7/1/11 /
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Theater Review: Shakespeare in the Park, Twice Over (Plus Once in Greenwich)
Shakespearean weddings, in and out of town.
- 6/30/11 /
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Theater Review: Familiar Stories Made Fresh, Just in Time for the Weekend
'Sex Lives of Our Parents' and 'No Child . '
- 6/24/11 /
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Theater Review: A Long-Ago Ivy League Nightmare Sees Daylight in Unnatural Acts
The closet at Harvard, ca. 1920.
- 6/21/11 /
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Theater Review: A Loose Yet Compelling 4,000 Miles
Bouquets to playwright Amy Herzog.
- 6/10/11 /
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Theater Reviews: The Not-Exactly-Lost Tennessee Williams Returns; Plus: The Tiny Thriller That Could
Moisés Kaufman has brought us the great late Tennessee Williams play that never was.
- 6/8/11 /
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Theater Review: How Do You Make a Musical About Horrible Music?
Sing out, Shaggs!
- 5/24/11 /
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Theater Review: The Multi-platform Pleasures of Reggie Watts’s Radio Play
A joy at the end of a downer week.
- 5/6/11 /
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Stage Dive: Things to See Before You Die This Weekend
Start with Derek Jacobi's Lear.
- 5/6/11 /
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Theater Review: The Dazzling, Dizzying Tangle of Tony Kushner’s The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures
We’re overwhelmed, yet at the same time strangely quarantined from the action.
- 4/30/11 /
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Theater Review: In Which Our Critic Is Left Speechless by The People in the Picture
Oy vey.
- 4/28/11 /
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Theater Review: Black Music Gets Whitewashed Again in Baby It’s You!
Advertised as the story of the Shirelles, this jukebox musical from the creator of 'Million Dollar Quartet' is actually about the white housewife who discovered them.
- 4/28/11 /
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Theater Review: The Biblical Anger of The Normal Heart Brilliantly Endures
If it’s been too long since you’ve been ravished by fulminating righteousness, then perhaps it’s time to get reacquainted with Larry Kramer's foundational play about AIDS.
- 4/27/11 /
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Theater Review: A Cramped and Muted House of Blue Leaves
Like its principal characters played by Ben Stiller, Edie Falco, and Jennifer Jason Leigh, this John Guare revival feels, for all its determination, caged in its own dreamworld.
- 4/25/11 /
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Theater Review: A Born Yesterday for Today
Citizens: Vote Nina Arianda!
- 4/22/11 /
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Theater Review: The Chav Anthem That Is Jerusalem
Jez Butterworth's green and trenchant play.
- 4/21/11 /
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Theater Review: Sister Act’s Charming March of the Penguins
Rapping grannies, singing nuns. Who's gonna argue?
- 4/18/11 /
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Theater Review: A Miserable Trip to Wonderland
Frank Wildhorn is the Chuck E. Cheese of musical theater.
- 4/15/11 /
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Stage Dive: Things to Do Before You Die This Weekend (If You Don’t Have Tickets to Sleep No More)
If you don't have tickets to 'Sleep No More.'
- 4/15/11 /
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Theater Review: The Freakily Immersive Experience of Sleep No More
"The show infects your dreams."
- 4/15/11 /
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Theater Review: The Fog of War Horse
Not really designed for adult minds.
- 4/12/11 /
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Theater Review: A Motherf**ker That Plays Hard-to-Get
"For all the characters yack, we just don’t know them the way we should."
- 4/11/11 /
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Theater Review: Catch It If You Can
Artificial, and proud of it.
- 4/8/11 /
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Theater Review: In Comes Company, Starring Everyone You Could Ask For
Patti LuPone, Jon Cryer, Stephen Colbert, Christina Hendricks, Martha Plimpton, Neil Patrick Harris, etc., etc.