Three dream-and-reality dualities reflect our topsy-turvy, almost fantastical post-9/11 world of secret prisons and climate disasters.
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Theater Review (NYC Fringe): ‘Track Twelve’ by Emily Comisar
Strangers on a train.
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This award-winning play brings out something that's usually lost to history: the story of an artist's model.
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This dreamy, compelling period-piece "movie" is presented live via overhead projector, cardboard puppets, live actors and music.
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Fun with dystopian futures.
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A short new opera about abolitionist Sojourner Truth features fine voices and appealing music.
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Conjoined twins wrestle with the pain of separation in this remarkable play from Bulgaria.
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A sci-fi suspense movie with unusually realistic chills.
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A reporter who killed a man in his youth falls in love while trying to unravel an impossible mystery in postwar Paris.
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A 1960s comic jazz oratorio by composer Gerald Fried ('Star Trek', 'Roots') gets a brief new life at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
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