Infused with magical realism, 'Flawless' isn't the intense, gritty family drama that the subject of dementia might suggest.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Séance with Mom’ – Nancy Redman Summons a Jewish Mother from Beyond the Grave
Though lacking pacing and structure, this solo piece about wishing you'd told a departed loved one something important touched some audience members.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Walt Disney Faces the Animators’ Strike of 1941 in ‘Burbank’ by Cameron Darwin Bossert
The play acutely dramatizes the strike using only three characters, and suggests parallels with our age that go beyond the current resurgence of union organizing.
Read More »Theater Interview: Valerie David of ‘The Pink Hulk: One Woman’s Journey to Find the Superhero Within’
A three-time cancer survivor and patient advocate, David shares her advice on who to have in our superhero squads and what we need to work on as a society for important conversations about chronic illnesses.
Read More »Theater Interview: Robyn Bishop-Marin of ‘A Girl Far From Normal’
"Nobody is alone in this world. We all look different and have different lives, but we all live this one human existence," Robyn Bishop-Marin reveals as a takeaway from her solo show.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Near to the Wild Heart’ Based on the Novel by Clarice Lispector
A stage adaptation of Clarice Lispector's stream-of-consciousness debut novel boasts a fine lead performance by Sarah Lemp, but sadly is not a page-turner.
Read More »Theater Reviews (NYC): ‘Bad Penny’ and ‘Sincerity Forever’ by Mac Wellman at the Flea Theater
A mixed experience awaits at the Flea Theater's retrospective of plays by the influential Mac Wellman.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘In the Penal Colony’ by Miranda Haymon, from the Kafka Story
Miranda Haymon's dramatization of Franz Kafka's short story aims to adapt Kafka's conceptual horror to present-day racist mass incarceration.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Virtuous Fall of the Girls from Our Lady of Sorrows’ by Gina Femia
In Gina Femia's new comedy, girls in a Catholic high school wrestle with the conflicting rights and wrongs of the Church, the permissive society outside, and their own developing minds.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Sycorax, Cyber Queen of Qamara’ by Fengar Gael
The tempestuous story of Shakespeare's Sycorax, the witch present only in name in 'The Tempest'
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