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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ Starring Raúl Esparza at CSC

November 18, 2018 Arts, Culture and Society, Editor Pick: Culture and Society, Theater Comments Off on Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ Starring Raúl Esparza at CSC

Raúl Esparza, Bertolt Brecht, John Doyle, CSC

Esparza's weak-minded, Trumpian, whining criminal with mannerisms like Hitler's brings humor and reality to a role often played as a caricature. His Ui is inimically real and dimensional.

Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Allegro’ at Classic Stage Company

November 19, 2014 Arts, Culture and Society, Theater, Top Stories Comments Off on Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Allegro’ at Classic Stage Company

A new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1947 Broadway flop suggests that Hammerstein's talent was not only innovative but even more forward-thinking than he himself and those around him might have realized.

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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ Starring Raúl Esparza at CSC

Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Allegro’ at Classic Stage Company