Off-Off-Broadway Review

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    Passing Ceremonies

    Playwright Steve Willis has gotten some of the harder things right in his promising new play "Passing Ceremonies," including sharp characterization and coherent supernatural rules.

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    Summer Shorts 3: Series B

    This collection of one-acts is a mixed bag but features some on-target acting and staging.

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    NY Review: 'The Stranger to Kindness'

    David Stallings' "The Stranger to Kindess," part of Frigid New York, employs too many clichés in its depiction of the loneliness of the urban jungle.

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    NY Review: 'The Bad Date Project'

    “Where is this going?” is not just a dating question. It also applies to this series of monologues that never becomes more than a sum of its parts.

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    Sounding

    Jennifer Gibbs' new play seeks the mystery of existence only to drown in weak storytelling and empty dialogue.

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    The Wonder

    The now-forgotten Restoration playwright Susanna Centlivre is revived by a capable all-female cast in an entertaining and spirited production that falters only when it attempts to force itself into the 21st century.

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    Living in a Musical

    This benighted production proves to be a work of gob-smacking incompetence.

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    The Realm

    In the subterranean world of "The Realm," playwright Sarah Myers attempts to engage the lives and deaths of words and hearts both figuratively and literally.

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    Order

    Christopher Stetson Boal's new play wins points for originality, audacious theatricality, and brave and talented playwriting, even as it also frustrates us.

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    The Little Death: Vol. 1

    This eroticized electro-opera about Christian chastity has loud fun but peaks early, a victim of its lack of a defined storyline.