Julia Cho’s “Office Hour”
Julia Cho’s Office Hour began life as a reaction to the 2007 mass-shooting at Virginia Tech. It...
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Jonathan Kalb
“Tiny Beautiful Things” at The Public Theatre
Dear Dust Man, I’m an avid theatergoer who missed seeing Nia Vardalos’s stage adaptation of Cheryl...
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David Greenspan’s One-Man, 6-Hour Performance of Eugene O’Neill’s “Strange Interlude”
The most interesting question about David Greenspan’s one-man, 6-hour performance of Eugene...
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Maria Irene Fornes’s “Mud” at Teatro Circulo
Maria Irene Fornes’s 1983 play Mud, widely considered a contemporary classic, is rarely produced...
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Thomas Ostermeier’s “Richard III” at BAM
Richard Crookback is Shakespeare’s dazzling carnival monster, a showoff criminal who charms us...
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“Beckett In The City”
From Brecht’s plan to project films of Marxist revolutions behind Didi and Gogo in Waiting For...
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“A Doll’s House, Part 2” Is No Deep Analysis Of Its Source
A Doll’s House made Henrik Ibsen a household name in 1879. It ruffled feathers throughout the...
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“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” on Broadway
My companion at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the new Broadway musical adaptation of Roald...
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“The Hairy Ape” at the Park Avenue Armory, NYC
As I sat in my $95 seat applauding the elegant and very smart production of Eugene O’Neill’s The...
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Understated Risk-Taking in Beckettian “Wakey, Wakey”
Audacious risk-taking in the theater comes in many colors, most of them loud. You can defy a...
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“Come From Away” – New Canadian Musical on Broadway
Come From Away, a relentlessly peppy new musical by the Canadian husband-wife team David Hein and...
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“Escaped Alone”: Catastrophe and Fear Meet Surrealism
Like Beckett and Pinter, Caryl Churchill is writing fugues in old age (she’s 77). Far Away, A...
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Review: Wallance Shawn’s “Evening at the Talk House”
Is it a good or bad thing for a dyed-in-the-wool dystopian like Wallace Shawn when real life...
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Theatre Lie-Detector Test: NYC End-of-the-Year Roundup Edition
TRUE: Daniel Craig has real acting chops. If you doubted this because you thought the role of...
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“The Babylon Line,” Richard Greenberg’s New Play at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre
Anyone so inclined could find plenty of reasons to carp about The Babylon Line, Richard...
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Lynn Nottage’s “Sweat” at The Public Theatre
What a journey Lynn Nottage’s Sweat has had. When this gorgeously incisive play about heartbreak...
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“The Encounter” Is Merely A Circus Of Distorted Sounds
The Encounter, Simon McBurney’s two-hour intermissionless solo show on Broadway, which many...
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“The Wolves” Explores Character Issues Through Soccer Outside Of The Game
Although the PR images of leaping, lunging and levitating female soccer players seem to promise...
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“Request Concert” – Middle-Class Loneliness, Explored Without a Word
It’s hard to think of a play more diabolically suited to the era of reality TV, vanished privacy...
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“Nat Turner in Jerusalem” at New York Theatre Workshop
Richard Gilman, an old teacher of mine and a terrific critic, used to say that whenever he read...
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