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Theater Review: The Long-Overdue New York Premiere of ‘Slaughter City’ by Naomi Wallace
Naomi Wallace's magical-realist fable about a strike at a slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant receives a long-overdue New York premiere.
Read More »Theater Review (Westport, CT): ‘The Understudy’ by Theresa Rebeck
The ups and downs of show business are on full display with Westport Country Playhouse's hit production.
Read More »Theater Review (Philadelphia): ‘The Hard Problem’ by Tom Stoppard at The Wilma Theatre
The irony of 'The Hard Problem' is that, despite its insistence on the fact that the human brain is so much more complex than a computer, which functions via simplistic binaries and calculations, the whole play is reducible to a simplistic, and false, binary.
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