Playwright-director Tony Georges tries for "August: Osage County" territory with this deep-fried melodrama but only comes up with an overcooked mess.
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This intimate musical adaptation of the Academy Award–winning movie of the same name makes for an offbeat but moving look at wounded lives redeemed by love and music.
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There's plenty of sound and fury in this rendering of Shakespeare's farce, but it doesn't signify much as far as genuine comedy is concerned.
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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
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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Based on a historical incident, Daniel Goldfarb's play turns the tale of anti-German vengefulness in the wake of the Holocaust into a barely believable series of melodramatic occurrences.
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This musical rendition of the rags-to-riches story of internationally renowned shoe fanatic Imelda Marcos is enjoyable if uninventive.
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Michael Lew's hilarious comedy about microlending is a combination of "The Simpsons" and Jonathan Swift.
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Despite a solid production and some good acting, this one-act is grounded by its three main characters' talk of writing novels instead of actually doing it, allowing their muses to take over the stage rather than the page.
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Shakespeare proves an excellent sitcom writer in this elegantly simple and simply elegant production from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre of London.
