Ethan Stanislawski is a freelance journalist/critic and new media specialist. He is a regular reviewer and staff writer at Prefix Magazine, and also contributes regularly to Blogcritics Magazine. His interests include theater, film, and pop music criticism (with a focus on independent and alternative rock), sports, politics, the media, the Internet and Technology industries, and general culture. Ethan maintains the blog Tynan's Anger.
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Theater Review (NYC): Harm's Way by Shem Bitterman
A deft new political play by Shem Bitterman falls victim to a lackluster staging.
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Theater Review (NYC): If You See Something Say Something by Mike Daisey
America's greatest monologist moves his fury from theater to homeland security, with a distrust of capitalism as the common bond.
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Theater Review (NYC): Life After Bush by Noah Diamond and Amanda Sisk
This play makes no excuses about its politics—and is a better play because of it.
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Concert Review: Galactic at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza, NYC, October 17, 2008
The New Orleans jazz funk greats hit New York, with horns and hip-hop in tow.
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Theater Review (NYC): Woyzeck by Georg Buchner at UNDER St. Marks and BAM
Two productions of Woyzeck hit New York in the wrong place at the right time.
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Theater Review (NYC): Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn
One of the greatest living British playwrights continues to have an awkward reception in America.
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Theater Review (NYC): Something Weird...in the Red Room
Weirdness can't make up for poor execution in Rachel Klein's Halloween special.
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Theater Review (NYC): Villa Diodati at the New York Musical Festival
With youthful energy suddenly emerging in musical theater, Villa Diodati seems at least 50 years out of date.
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Theater Review (NYC): Taboos by Carl Djerassi
Carl Djerassi, the inventor of the Pill, sees his scientific perspective conflict with his dramatic one in Taboos.
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Theater Review (NYC): Quickening
Privacy may be on the way out, but this abortion story makes compelling drama out of one of women's most private matters.
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