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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Six Passionate Women’ by Mario Fratti
This comedy inspired by Federico Fellini's filmmaking foibles and womanizing ways starts amusingly, but ultimately disappoints.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Mr. Landing Takes a Fall’ by Sari Caine
Inspired by 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', this new production from Slightly Altered States is absurd, emotionally acute, Python-esque, brilliantly acted, and ultimately incomprehensible.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Valley of Astonishment’ by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne
Stories of synaesthesia inspired by Oliver Sacks, a celebrated mnemonist, and an ancient Sufi poem.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The McGowan Trilogy’ by Seamus Scanlon
This taut and suspenseful character play concerns a youth, a 'charming bad boy' with murderous urges, who lends his services to the IRA.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Embers’ by Samuel Beckett
'Embers' succeeds a good deal more dramatically than one might have expected from a radio play transferred to the stage.
Read More »Hot Chocolate Theatre, Singapore’s First Repertory Theatre, to Open with ‘The Arsonists’
Singapore has never had a true repertory theatre before.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Bedbugs!!!’ the Musical by Paul Leschen and Fred Sauter
This deliciously campy show has so much frenzied, blood-sucking energy the small ArcLight theater can hardly contain it.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Dance Like a Man’ by Mahesh Dattani
India's longest-running English-language play proves that Dance has the power to fracture, but also mend, relationships
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Good and the True,’ Adapted by Brian Daniels
Brought to visceral, organic life by the exceptional Isobel Pravda and Saul Reichlin we follow Hana Pravda and Milos Dobry through the events of WWII and the Holocaust and are heartened by their goodness and their truth as they mend their lives and recreate themselves anew.
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