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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Iphigenia Among the Taurians’ Adapted from Euripides

The text of this well-staged new adaptation strikes a smile-inducing, attention-grabbing, and surprisingly believable balance between literary authenticity – this is indeed Euripides' play in all its essentials – and contemporary informality and even snark.

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Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): Jack London’s ‘The Iron Heel’ Adapted and Directed by Edward Einhorn

Where do you stand: with the oligarchy or with the common man? This well-acted, cleverly executed production is a mind-bending tour de force of ideas, with darkly twisting humor and swaths of realism thrown in to perplex.

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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Line’ by Israel Horovitz

At moments, the refreshed production of NYC's longest-running play reminded me of looking at those books of old New Yorker cartoons from the 1950s and '60s, with their wordless multi-panel stories and their hapless Organization Men. But for most of its length, I wished I'd gotten on line for something else.

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