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Puppet Theater Review (NYC): Wakka Wakka Presents ‘Made in China’
The first musical from this fabulously inventive puppeteer ensemble may be the troupe's most charming production yet. Brightly gripping, and written and directed in a classic fabulist style, it's replete with innovative marvels of illusion.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Terms of Endearment’ Starring Molly Ringwald
Bonds of love are often taken for granted until someone has to say goodbye.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘Echoes’ by Henry Naylor
A Victorian-age woman and a modern-day Muslim woman in the UK tell their parallel stories.
Read More »Opera Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘L’Amant Anonyme’ by Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Glorious music and wonderful singing more than compensate for a weak story in this comic opera by the first classical composer of African ancestry.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘Ideation’ by Aaron Loeb
You are commissioned to a project which by design is macabre, yet life-saving. Do you engage or abort?
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘Dead Dog Park’ by Barry Malawer
A black thirteen-year-old, a white cop, an eyewitness account, a shattering fall. Do the facts matter when all will suffer?
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘I And You’ by Lauren Gunderson
Is your humanity an everpresent mystery to you? In Walt Whitman's world, this was something to "sing" about.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): LaBute Theater Festival
Do women control men and get them to "do" things beyond a man's power to say no to them?
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): LaBute New Theater Festival at 59E59
The six short plays comprising the LaBute New Theater Festival might have been collectively titled 'Love and Murder,' two themes clearly on the playwrights' minds.
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