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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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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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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In 'Exit Cuckoo', playwright-performer Lisa Ramirez gives voice to the voiceless.
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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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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.
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Don't Leave It All to Your Children
A few mild chuckles is the most you can expect from 'Don't Leave It All to Your Children', a harmless 90-minute musical revue about senior citizens, playing matinees and Saturday nights at the Actors Temple.
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Dov and Ali begins: "Once upon a time, in the middle of a school in the middle of Detroit in the middle of the United States of America, there was a confused teacher and there was a precocious student."
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Le Théâtre Du Soleil's dense but not impenetrable "Les Éphémères" investigates the impact of death on the living and the sad prospects of life unlived. In French. For six hours. Tough sell, right?
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Apparently aiming at the ethnic big time à la "Passing Strange" or "In the Heights," this well-intentioned show needs work if a Broadway shot is ever on the horizon.
