Lila Rose Kaplan's "Wildflower" is a wilted, stilted comedy. Its roots are submerged beneath a writing style lacking in nutrients.
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When the whole audience joins in to chant "I Will Survive," you realize that "Girls Night: The Musical" is not just a silly bachelorette-flavored night on the town. It's a rally.
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Marc Palmieri's "Levittown" has some genuinely earned dramatic pyrotechnics, but when he wanders from kitchen-sink realism to soap operatics, not even the sterling work of director George Demas and an admirable cast can save this production.
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There's nothing wrong with dramatizing untold or underexplored Holocaust stories, provided they deliver as much of a theatrical punch as the topic obviously deserves and requires
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For all its philosophical implications, Declan Donnellan's marvelous production has none of the weary marks of the cynic or the academic. This "Boris Godunov" crackles with ambition.
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Toni Servillo's production lifts Goldoni irrevocably out of the 18th century, revealing him as a daringly modern witness to the compromises of lovers' hearts. - Review
Director Lev Dodin, who also adapted Vasily Grossman's novel, accomplishes something rare with his Maly Drama Theatre production of "Life and Fate": He simultaneously leaves the audience behind and ahead of the action.
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Alongside the more grandiose offerings at Lincoln Center Festival 09, Béla Pintér and Company's "Peasant Opera" requires an intimate staging.
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The Boychick Affair: The Bar Mitzvah of Harry Boychick
The specter of Grandma Sylvia—whom theatergoers will recall as the matriarch of a dizzy, dysfunctional family that celebrated her funeral Off-Broadway during the 1990s—looms large over "The Boychick Affair."
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When "Vanities" opened Off-Broadway in 1976, critical reaction was tepid. But money from the sale of rights to the show for an ABC TV series (which was never picked up) kept the production going.
