The Pearl Theatre Co. has been seduced by Dickens, attracted by the prospect of playing larger-than-life contrasting roles in Steven Jeffreys' 1982 stage adaptation of "Hard Times."
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Virginia Woolf is not afraid of anyone as she takes her audience and readership to task in this wearying but fascinating solo show from director Anne Bogart.
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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."
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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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Economics as destroyer is the theme of Nathan Louis Jackson's moving new play "Broke-ology."
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Starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and overflowing with sublime images, haunting music, and subtle comedy, "In Paris" is nonetheless dramatically unengaging.
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Much like 9-year-old Jesse (Matthew Gumley), a boy who's heard but not seen for most of Lisa Loomer's new play at Roundabout Theatre Company, Distracted suffers from ADHD flitting from moment to moment and from style to style at an almost dizzying rate.
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The Success of Failure (Or, The Failure Of Success)
For an antidote to workweek weariness, see Cynthia Hopkins' astonishing and sweet space-opera-cum-self-discovery journey 'The Success of Failure (Or, The Failure of Success)'.
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Where have we seen this scenario before? A brilliant, independent woman—perhaps a little too intellectual for her own good—is afflicted with a debilitating disease.
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The attention-grabbing premise promises more than the show can deliver, despite the cast's commitment and one actor's magnificent physique.
