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Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘The Burial at Thebes’ by Seamus Heaney, a Version of ‘Antigone’ by Sophocles
First produced by Dublin's legendary Abbey Theatre 11 years ago, the Nobel Prize winner's play strips Sophocles' cautionary tale of honor and overreach to its dramatic core.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): LaBute New Theater Festival at 59E59
The six short plays comprising the LaBute New Theater Festival might have been collectively titled 'Love and Murder,' two themes clearly on the playwrights' minds.
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Off-Broadway NYC): ‘Key Change’ by Catrina McHugh
What is the percentage of incarcerated individuals repeating their crimes based on their socioeconomic background?
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Collaborators’ by John Hodge
Hodge's Olivier Award-winning play fictionalizes the last years of Mikhail Bulgakov, author of 'The Master and Margarita,' who lived one of the 20th century's most interesting (and saddest) literary lives, and his dealings with the dictator Joseph Stalin.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘City Girls & Desperadoes’ with Austin Pendleton at The Secret Theatre
Imagine one of Tennessee Williams's larger-than-life mother figures dropped into a Lanford Wilson play, and you'll have a hint at what to expect.
Read More »Theater Review (Broadway): ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
I didn't know how fresh a new revival could be after more than half a century. But thanks to bright performances, crisp staging, and dashing new dances and musical arrangements that respect their sources, this 'Fiddler' doesn't feel dated at all.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Anthony Burgess
Whilst this production does have very stylized dance moves and music, they don't make up for the old and tired themes, meandering plot, and off-putting Nadsat lingo.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Who Left This Fork Here’ by Daniel Fish
This hour-plus of insidious, challenging weirdness lands its punch squarely in the gut.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘The Golden Bride’ – National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene Revives a Classic 1920s Operetta
Lovingly reconstructed, this aspirational-fantasy story of Russian shtetl Jews emigrating to America is a fascinating period piece of great historical and cultural interest, as well as a robustly acted and brilliantly sung spectacle of theatrical joy.
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