This flashy, good-natured send-up of everything geeky and gory and youthful and fun is a knockout.
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Theater Review (Boston): Adding Machine: A Musical at Speakeasy Stage
Schmidt and Loewith have crafted the words of Elmer Rice's 1923 play into melodies and meters that pulse and rise and fall with the rhythm of thought.
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"Why go to the theatre to see a play! Better to see yourselves more often."
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The Amoralists shift the action from the Lower East Side to Coney Island, with mixed results.
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At least there's a good song.
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"Jesus, how much money did the director owe these guys?"
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A strange blend of Irish character studies and Japanese Kabuki theater, this is more than a play, it's an immersive poetic experience.
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Almost magically, these characters whom we only glimpse come brightly alive, exuding sorrow, angst, joy in turn.
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Northern Ireland in the 1970s: On the road to nowhere.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Clybourne Park
1959: a black family is moving into a white neighborhood. 2009: after hard times, the same neighborhood is re-gentrifying.
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