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Hollywood Fringe Preview: An Interview with Cathy Schenkelberg, Writer/Star of ‘Squeeze My Cans’
The writer/performer talks about the new solo show that chronicles her time as a member of the Church of Scientology.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): A New Twist on Zombie Apocalypse in ‘Rizing’ by Jason Tseng
Flux Theatre Ensemble executes Tseng's brash post-zombie-apocalypse premise with equal parts psychological grace and horror-story panache.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Rupert Everett in ‘The Judas Kiss’ by David Hare
Hare has written dialogue for Wilde that measures up to the man's legendary wit, while Everett achieves that elusive theatrical magic of a larger-than-life yet utterly believable performance.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘City Stories’ by James Phillips
The substance of our lives is composed of deep questions, many of which may never be answered.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Pelican’ by August Strindberg
Late in his career, August Strindberg wrote four short works he called "chamber plays" for his own new theater, which opened in Stockholm in 1907 with this weird one-act influenced by the playwright's studies of Swedenborg and incorporating his interest in the occult.
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 »Theater Review (NYC): Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘Henry IV Part 1’ and ‘Henry IV Part 2’
What makes these productions so good is their attention to detail, both in the actors' characterizations and in the myriad perfect touches of action and interaction.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Henry V’ from the Royal Shakespeare Company
Many of the play's well-known scenes and speeches hit home with depth and exactitude under Gregory Doran's scholarly and wide-angled direction in this spectacular if flawed production.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Nathan the Wise’ with F. Murray Abraham and Stark Sands
With a uniformly excellent cast, this bracing version of Gotthold Lessing's German Enlightenment play hits home with its then (and still) controversial view of religion: that no faith has the uniquely true message of God.
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