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.
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This tale of an endangered Russian journalist and her American husband seeking refuge in rural New York with two of his former close friends, now married, never coheres.
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Fearless, whip-smart, and hyperarticulate, Jeff Talbott's incendiary political comedy-drama asks hard questions about our supposedly post-racial world and will likely make audiences uncomfortable. Good for him.
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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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Think William Butler Yeats, and gorgeous Irish poetry comes to mind, not theatre. But the Irish Rep is doing its best to alter that perception with The Yeats Project, whose centerpiece is full stagings of eight of the poet's plays.
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Sulayman Al-Bassam takes Shakespeare's history play about the infamous ruler and transforms it into a compelling portrait of political maneuvering in a contemporary Arab monarchy.
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Written, directed, and performed by David Collins and Shane Dundas, "Speedmouse" is a wonderfully wacky fusion of mime, slapstick, and standup comedy.
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Thomas Bradshaw has had the shocking insight that selfish people behave badly, and he spends a long 70 minutes sharing it with us in "The Bereaved."
