Off-Broadway Review

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    Nation

    The National Theatre of Great Britain's series of broadcasts to movie theaters continues with a sprawling fantasy that will enchant both adults and children.

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    Knickerbocker

    A play consisting of nothing but two-person conversations in the same restaurant booth could be static, but this is a moving and funny rumination on fatherhood.

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    Sin

    This play based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Unseen" is a spooky adult fable, yet despite strong performances and vivid design, it drags as much as it provokes.

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    The Habit of Art

    The National Theatre concludes its pilot season of broadcasts to movie theaters with a hilarious, bracing, and multileveled rumination on the creative process.

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    End of the Road

    Maybe it's not so surprising that the Young@Heart Chorus' "End of the Road" could make you laugh or cry. But it can also make a full crowd dance.

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    Family Week

    Director Jonathan Demme is stuck in cinema mode for his theatrical debut, and Beth Henley's 75-minute script feels like a first draft.

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    The Kid

    Musicalizing sex columnist Dan Savage's 1999 book about adopting a child with his boyfriend might seem an unpromising idea, but the New Group's "The Kid" quickly persuades otherwise.

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    The Temperamentals

    Gay artists are reclaiming their history. Like "Milk," Jon Marans has done something similar for Harry Hay in his bright and affecting new play, "The Temperamentals."

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    Luck

    Neither a typical monologue nor a freeform performance piece, Megan Riordan's one-woman Las Vegas extravaganza, "Luck," goes all in by drawing on aspects of both.

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    The Method Gun

    The Rude Mechanicals theater company turns ensemble theater into a metaphor for life in this intelligent, funny, and moving new work about an acting guru and her students.