David Ireland’s “Cyprus Avenue” At The Royal Court
With Brexit and Northern Ireland constantly in the news, the timeliness of this play is not in...
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“All About Eve” at Noel Coward Theatre
Some seventy-odd years ago, New Yorker Mary Orr wrote a short story for the Cosmopolitan magazine...
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“My Dad’s Gap Year” at The Park Theatre
Gender fluidity should be fun—after all, it’s all about love. And love can take any shape it...
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Review: Who Needs To Be Reminded “We Are Not Alone”?
“I want to believe,” declared Agent Fox Mulder in the 1998 television pilot for The X-Files. Two...
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The Beauty In Differences In The “Scarlet Ibis,” A New Opera
Beautiful and heart-wrenching and incredibly real, The Scarlet Ibis is a masterpiece of modern...
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“The End Of TV”: Manual Cinema Presents Another Unusual And Stunning Work
Manual Cinema has returned to Boston’s ArtsEmerson with their latest work The End Of TV just a...
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“City Of No Illusions” Takes Refugees To The Border Of Life And Death
“City of No Illusions,” a political comedy that stages the modern refugee crisis inside a funeral home.
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Arthur Miller’s “The Price” At The Wyndham’s Theatre
All hail Arthur Miller, chief of London’s modern revivals this year. Which is odd, given that 2019...
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“Medea” By Simon Stone, The New Stage Sensation
Simon Stone is a stage director who began working in Australia and is currently working in Europe. His successful production of Yerma, by Federico García Lorca, was selected by The New York Times theatre critics as one of the best plays in New York in 2018. Medea, a Simon Stone collaboration with the prestigious Ivo Van […]
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Pie in the Sky: Eliza Bent Delights With “Bonnie’s Last Flight”
I follow a strict protocol of attitudinal class warfare when I board airplanes. As I walk proudly...
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Matthew Bourne’s “Cinderella”–A Breathtaking Fairytale At War
When he first created his Cinderella in 1997, Matthew Bourne couldn’t have predicted any...
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At “The Mountaintop” There Is Doubt, Uncertainty And Humanity: Katori Hall’s Play About King’s Final Night Before His Assassination
One of the first things we learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in The Mountaintop, Katori...
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Vikram Phukan: Mapping Resilience And Vulnerability
In the midst of external turmoil, how does one battle with one’s inner demons? In a world where...
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“Beware Of Pity” Is Beautiful To Watch, But Clashes With Modern Sensibilities
Review: Beware Of Pity, Sydney Festival 2019 Performances in the Roslyn Packer Theatre typically...
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“Churning Waters”—Muffled Voices Flow
A white, feathered string in hand, Sylvia Nulpinditj begins to explain each action in the...
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“The Tempest” At The Pittsburgh Public Theater In Pittsburgh, PA, USA
A couple of decades ago my then-colleague Jan Hagens introduced me to a genre categorization that...
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Truth And “True West”
Sam Shepard’s True West has always been a magnet for celebrity hamming, particularly in the role...
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Decoding The Music Masterpieces: Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck,” An Apocalyptic Descent Into Madness
Alban Berg’s Wozzeck is arguably the most important opera composed in the first half of the 20th...
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Two Bold Shows by Women of Color at Mabou Mines
When I entered the theater at Mabou Mines for Edisa Weeks’ performance of Three Rites: Liberty, my...
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Shakespeare’s “Othello” In The Trappings Of Twenty-First Century America
An updated version of Othello now playing at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge...
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