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Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Chorus Line’ at the Gallery Players
The Gallery Players' sterling new production reminds us that 'A Chorus Line' is not only loaded with some of the greatest show music ever, but one of the best pieces of meta-theater ever devised.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Agnes’ by Catya McMullen (AMC’s ‘Dietland’)
Through his stilted, abrupt, truth-blurting observations, it's the character with Asperger's who reveals the deepest truths about human relationships in this tour-de-force play by 'Dietland' writer Catya McMullen.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Worse Than Tigers’ by Mark Chrisler
Intermittently funny and unevenly powerful, Mark Chrisler's play 'Worse Than Tigers' is amusingly absurdist and patently symbolist yet on another level grittily real.
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 »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Faghag’ by Pam Oei
In the fifth year of Singapore's gay theme party "Nation," just as Pam Oei decides to let her hair down and shake her body with total abandon, the music abruptly stops – because in real life the government stopped the event in 2005. That scene said so much, despite Oei saying not much at all.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Press Gang’ by Tan Tarn How
In an exciting story mirroring past headlines, journalists meet, discuss things, and make deals to tackle a piece of salacious news amidst a government intent on censoring what the public knows, and editors who struggle to find the balance.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Building a Character’ by Wild Rice and Ruth Tang
Racism still rears its ugly head in the career of a noted Indian stage actor, even in an open-minded community like that of the arts in Singapore.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘My Life on a Diet’ Starring Renée Taylor
Taylor's one-woman show recounts her life in NYC, Miami, and Hollywood and paints a hilarious portrait of the celebrity frenzy of dieting and weight loss.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘The Originalist’ by John Strand
This sturdy, compelling production rivets our attention, explicating both the character and the philosophy of that most polarizing of jurists, the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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