Name: Tulis McCall
Dateline: Manhattan
Weblog: ushernonsense.com [RSS]
Articles: 31
First Published: Saturday, August 26, 2006
Last Published: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Currently listing articles 31-1:
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Theater Review (NYC): Armor of Wills— The Beggars Group loves theater, but this production does not match the quality of their commitment.
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Theater Review (NYC): The Sound And The Fury (April Seventh, 1928)— This company's considerable strength is sourced in ritual, chance, focus, and risk. The combination is glorious.
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Theater Review (NYC): Cherry Docs— A Jewish attorney defends a skinhead in this snappy little play that won't bust your billfold.
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Theater Review (NYC): The Country Girl— No one could be sadder than I. Morgan Freeman, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher: what could possibly go wrong? A lot.
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Theater Review (New York): Chamber Music and The Day The Whores Came Out To Play Tennis— There are pauses in these two plays during which you could unload a banana boat.
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Theater Review (New York): The Little Flower of East Orange— LAByrinth Theater Company is not neat and tidy-making. It bubbles and evolves with every production.
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Theater Review (NYC): Another Vermeer— It is in spaces like the Abingdon that New York theater is truly born.
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Theater Review (NYC): Sizwe Banzi is Dead— This play speaks only of one town in one country, but it transcends time, race, sex, and class.
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Theatre Review (NYC): Something You Did— This is a quiet little play about big ideas, a fine and thoughtful feast for mind and spirit.
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Theatre Review (NYC): Macbeth— In all the times you have seen Macbeth, did you ever get the impression that Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth were actually married?
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Theatre Review (NYC): The Drunken City— This play doesn’t quite land on its feet, but it has wonderful moments of surprise with excellent performances.
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Theater Review (NYC): The Four of Us— This is a sweet play. That sounds gushy, but there is not another way to describe it.
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Theater Review (NYC): Rainbow Kiss— Like its plot and character development, the Rainbow Kiss is MIA.
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Theater Review (NYC): Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?— Churchill's writing drops like a sinker on the end of a fishing line. She is direct and determined.
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Theater Review (NYC): Dead Man's Cell Phone— Nothing gets in the way of the glow from Sarah Ruhl's squirrelly little mind. The plot is all in the title.
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Theater Review (NYC): Young Frankenstein— The cast is bland, the music is boring, and the direction is of paint-by-numbers quality.
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Theater Review (New York): Secret Order by Bob Clyman— A remarkable story of hope and treachery set in the world of scientific research.
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Theater Review (New York): The Receptionist by Adam Bock
— The story is so simple it will make you feel as though you tied your own shoes together just after you sat down.
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Theater Review (NYC): Pygmalion with Claire Danes— With the stagehands' strike and all, what's left out there on Broadway worth seeing? Not this, sadly.
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Theater Review (NYC): A Feminine Ending— Blair Brown directs Marsha Mason and Richard Masur in a frustrating piece - but not frustrating for the reasons the playwright intended.
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Theater Review (NYC): Mauritius— F. Murray Abraham is brittle and cutthroat and makes you glad you are not on the other end of the negotiation.
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Theater Review (NYC): Love Sucks at the New York Musical Theatre Festival— I'm hard pressed to explain why I liked this show, because I don't like rock. But it's charming.
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Theater Review (NYC): The Misanthrope— An alternate title to this production could be Welcome to The Theatre And Let Me Rub Your Face In Garbage.
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Theater Review (NYC): 100 Saints You Should Know— The problem with liking a show is that you run out of good ways to say "Terrific" and "Excellent actors."
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Theater Review (NYC): Opus— A masterful play that will come back to you like a recurring theme in a favorite piece of music.
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Theater Review (NYC): Gone Missing— Go see this if you're in love and want something to bind up the little scratchy gaps you feel.
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Theater Review: Passing Strange, New York— Perhaps you are one of the fortunate people who know who Stew is. Lucky you!
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Theater Review: Frost/Nixon, Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, New York— Well, now that he's won the Tony, you all may be in line to see Frank Langella. You might want to think again.
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Theater Review: The Year of Magical Thinking— The Year of Magical Thinking is only the middle of the story. Even Vanessa Redgrave can't fight that one.
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Theater Review: Howard Katz— Forget about the play. Go see Alfred Molina.
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Theater Review: Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, Shakespeare in the Park— In a frog-in-a-pot production, Meryl Streep takes on Mother Courage and nearly succeeds.
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