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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Brendan at the Chelsea’ by Janet Behan
The year is 1963. Brendan Behan has ended up in the Chelsea Hotel in NYC. What awaits him there will break your heart.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Dish for the Gods’ by Victor L. Cahn
Julia Reynolds, the celebrated writer, has planned to deliver a "talk" but finds the truth intrudes on her presentation.
Read More »Theater Review (LA): ‘The Burnt Part Boys’ at Third Street Theatre
This musical about coal country boys who face a bleak future slaving away in the mines could have used some more memorable music.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘I Can See Clearly Now (The Wheelchair on My Face)’ by Sonya Kelly
How do you see when you can't fathom what's 20 feet ahead of you? Sonya Kelly's riotous one-woman romp shows you how she did it.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle’ by Ross Dungan
Eric Argyle has just been hit by a car and killed. There just might be enough time to rectify something from his past to help someone in the present.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘A User’s Guide to Hell Featuring Bernard Madoff’ by Lee Blessing
Madoff's hell is not like anything we've read about in religious books.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle’ by Ross Dungan
Hit by a car and killed, 58-year-old Eric Argyle awakens into a bewildering procedural nightmare.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Sacred Elephant’ by Heathcote Williams
A play that awakens our empathy and opens our minds and hearts to the torment of these wonderful creatures.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Tchaikovsky’ by Andrew Wyeth Neal
The life, times and music of the great Russian composer Tchaikovsky revealed in an innovative and exhilarating play.
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