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Theater/Cabaret Review (NYC): ‘Tis the Season with Vickie and Nickie
Vickie and Nickie get the balance between spoof and sincerity just right.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Seven in One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid
An oddly altered but amusing version of the Grimm fairy tale.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘She Like Girls’ by Chisa Hutchinson
A story about growing up, finding first love, and experiencing the pain and despair of young adulthood.
Read More »Theater Review (Brooklyn, NY): A Streetcar Named Desire Starring Cate Blanchett, Directed by Liv Ullman
Five curtain calls for Cate Blanchett and Co.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl
Just a century ago some basic bodily functions were understood very, very, very differently.
Read More »From the Green Room: Speaking Like Brits
Why Cockney? An actor's complaint.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): THIS by Melissa James Gibson at Playwrights Horizons
The "annoying" gay friend – hardly the sitcom stereotype.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): The Importance of Being Earnest at The Counting Squares Theatre – A Beguiling Wilde
Born in a handbag in Grand Central Station.
Read More »Theater Review (Queens, NY): Cyrano de Bergerac
Daniel Wolfe delivers a tour-de-force performance as the swashbuckling poet in Rostand's masterwork.
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