Off-Broadway Review

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    Red Sea Fish

    Matt Wilkinson's new play is a complex exploration of family relationships and the imagination of the human mind, and it's been shipped here straight from Brighton.

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    My Wonderful Day

    Though it's centered on the timeworn cliché of the wise innocent child, Alan Ayckbourn's "My Wonderful Day" is largely entertaining.

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    Misalliance

    How would one describe the works of George Bernard Shaw without calling them droll? His brand of whimsy, with its perfectly quotable epigrams, just begs for the label.

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    The Emperor Jones

    The Irish Repertory Theatre stages Eugene O'Neill's rarely seen one-act with chilling intensity, featuring a titanic performance by John Douglas Thompson.

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    The Myopia and Plays

    With "The Myopia," David Greenspan makes magic; with "Plays," he writes a love letter; with both, he puts theatre and life back in the present tense.

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    Palestine

    Najla Saïd examines politics, perception, and prejudice in this fascinating, complex stage memoir about her journey of ethnic identity as an Arab American.

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    Gatz

    At first Elevator Repair Service's marathon adaptation of Fitzgerald's classic novel is forced and gimmicky, but once the company allows the novel to speak for itself, it's an absorbing re-creation of one of the greatest works of American literature.

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    Exit Cuckoo

    In 'Exit Cuckoo', playwright-performer Lisa Ramirez gives voice to the voiceless.

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    The Dishwashers

    To kick off the Americas Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters comes Canadian playwright Morris Panych's 'The Dishwashers,'  in a production from Massachusetts' Chester Theatre Company.

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    Mel & El: Show & Tell

    This writing-acting team, real-life best friends since age 12, already have Timothy R. Mackabee's fantastic set to show off, a pink fantasyland crammed with posters from the 1980s and '90s, books, a refrigerator, gewgaws, a sofa, and a stuffed pillow with Liza Minnelli's face on it.