This brisk re-imagining of Brecht's "Mother Courage" by way of bicycles and Rodgers and Hammerstein surmounts some staging hiccups along the way.
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This turgid melodrama, a shocking success on stage in the 1920s and as a 1941 movie, is shown up as the potboiler it always was, despite latter-day ethnically correct casting.
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Leslie Ayvazian's new play deserves an audience, but the one at the performance I saw isn't the one it needs. I don't think confusion is a factor: 'Make Me' is a frisky comic fugue about three couples battling for sexual and emotional dominance.
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Playwright Mark Saltzman clearly loves the work of Irving Berlin and Scott Joplin, and he wants to share it with the world. And, indeed, whenever music takes center stage in "The Tin Pan Alley Rag," there is enjoyment to be had.
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This family dramedy feels more like a radio play than a theatrical production.
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Director Ivo van Hove's deconstruction of Lillian Hellman's sturdy melodrama comes off as an acting exercise that would probably be very helpful somewhere around the middle of rehearsals.
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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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On the gay smorgasbord that currently constitutes the New York theatrical scene, "The Temperamentals"—smart, passionate, and focused—is the tastiest and most satisfying item on the menu.
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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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El Insólito Caso de Mis’ Piña Colada (The Preposterous Case of Miss Piña Colada)
Though cartoonish in tone and performance, Carlos Ferrari's comedy about a woman who will stop at nothing to see that her daughter wins a beauty pageant is a true crowd-pleaser.
