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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A deft new political play by Shem Bitterman falls victim to a lackluster staging.
America's greatest monologist moves his fury from theater to homeland security, with a distrust of capitalism as the common bond.
This play makes no excuses about its politics—and is a better play because of it.
The New Orleans jazz funk greats hit New York, with horns and hip-hop in tow.
Two productions of Woyzeck hit New York in the wrong place at the right time.
One of the greatest living British playwrights continues to have an awkward reception in America.
Weirdness can't make up for poor execution in Rachel Klein's Halloween special.
With youthful energy suddenly emerging in musical theater, Villa Diodati seems at least 50 years out of date.
Carl Djerassi, the inventor of the Pill, sees his scientific perspective conflict with his dramatic one in Taboos.
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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