Off-Broadway Review

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    Kristina (in Concert)

    Ever since I heard Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' muscular score for "Chess," I have been eager for another musical from them. Unfortunately, "Kristina" is not it.

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    Broke-ology

    Economics as destroyer is the theme of Nathan Louis Jackson's moving new play "Broke-ology."

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    Spatter Pattern or, How I Got Away With It

    Neal Bell's story of two death-haunted men has some of the attributes of a Hitchcock thriller but plays better as a stark, low-key psychological drama.

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    The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church

    Daniel Kitson's inventive and winning solo show centers on the massive correspondence of a lonely man contemplating suicide. But the replies postpone his date with the noose.

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    In Your Image

    Actor-playwright Rob Benson's overly studied three-hander, about two brothers clearing the rubbish-strewn flat of their long-estranged, recently deceased father, feels awfully insular.

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    Beautiful Burnout

    Though beautifully designed and dynamically directed and performed, Bryony Lavery's portrait of life among a group of amateur boxers has surprisingly little dramatic punch.

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    Treasure Island

    B.H. Barry stages bracing battles and scintillating sword fights in this stage version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, but when the brawling stops, the action grinds to a halt.

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    St. Nicholas

    The appeal of Conor McPherson's one-man play is in its value as a prologue of uncertain promise to a playwright's remarkable career.

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    In The Wake

    Despite some eloquently expressed ideas, Lisa Kron's political drama drowns in a sea of words. Marin Ireland and Deirdre O'Connell do their best to bail it out, but their stimulus package is not enough.

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    Ghosts in the Cottonwoods

    The Amoralists use this early Adam Rapp play to strike a blow against sclerotic modes of presentation and received attitudes in the minds of audiences and critics. I had a blast.