Off-Off-Broadway Review

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    Be the Dog

    This awkward whimsy fails to shed new light on the canine experience. Interspersed with mild human drama, it goes nowhere on parallel tracks.

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    Union Squared

    This deeply unfunny play is a muddled mess from beginning to end, thanks to a trite script and sloppy direction.

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    NY Review: 'Bad Kid'

    "Bad Kid," David Crabb's one-man show at Axis Theater about his goth-gay Texas adolescence, is vivid and amusing storytelling.

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    Brack's Last Bachelor Party

    For Ibsen know-it-alls, this takeoff on "Hedda Gabler" scores some enjoyable points, but it doesn't make it as a fully realized play.

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    Field 309

    Corporate life goes all dreamlike in this jumbled multimedia performance from Title: Point Productions that's part of Incubator Arts Project.

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    Bong Bong Bong Against the Walls, Ting Ting Ting in Our Heads

    This well-designed puppet musical about mentally disabled children means well, but it doesn't always pull the right strings.

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    Song for a Future Generation

    For a prime example of the sci-fi spectacle dance-party play genre, look to the Management and Horse Trade Theater Group's production of Joe Tracz's "Song for a Future Generation."

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    Alternative Methods

    Torture: It's not a pretty topic, and author Patricia Davis doesn't promise it to be. But she does package it into a solid play. Thought-provoking and fast-paced, "Alternative Methods" is a Fringe gem.

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    P.O.

    The downsizing of the workforce is one of the timeliest subjects around, but it's only given a light dusting over in "P.O.," Scott Klavan's two-hander about a pair of average-Joe postal workers.

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    Tiny Geniuses

    Every nails-on-a-chalkboard cliché inherent in adult actors playing children is in evidence in "Tiny Geniuses," a new comedy about first grade.