SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Presented by Michael Parva, Chase Mishkin, Leonard Soloway, in association with Debra Black, at the Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48 St., NYC. Opened May 5, closed May 8 after five performances.
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In director Stephen Rockwell's re-imagining of Shakespeare's play, Anna C. Miller affirms that a woman can play Julius Caesar as compellingly as a man. However, much like Brutus' band of conspirators, Rockwell has overestimated the importance of Caesar's physical body: Destroy the body and we transform Rome ...
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Presented by Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre at Theater Four, 424 W. 55 St., NYC, Oct. 31-Dec. 23.
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This collection of one-acts represents the work of authors whose full-length productions have been staged at this theatre previously. It's as workable a theme as any, but the evening feels for the most part like a collection of underdeveloped ideas: scenes that were supposed to eventually be surrounded by ...
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The show must go on, even if there are only six people in the house. But, despite the old adage, one wonders how much can be expected of an improvisational performer with a half-dozen people with whom to work. Lisa Jolley, she of mega-watt toothy smile and copious, curly hair ...
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"So this is it," the first line in this August Wilson play, has a double meaning. The character, Mame Wilks, is disparaging her husband's new office in Pittsburgh's run-down Hill District. But it's also Wilson's pronouncement that his 10-play opus about the African-American experience throughout the ...
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Presented by Loading Zone in association with Amanda Harding at the Walkerspace, 46 Walker St., NYC, Feb. 22-March 9.
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The rocket of Clifford Odets' play takes an obsessive orbit that never even gets the moon in its sights. Shooting at the romantic orb is Ben Stark (Michael Bryan French), a dentist of small spirit, badly frayed at the edges by an emasculating wife, an idiosyncratic father-in-law, a dipso associate ...
