Because critics love to, um, criticize, let's leap right in. This production offers so much to its audience that it's impossible to catch everything.
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Writer-director Daisuke Tsuji's exegesis on life in the monkey world features wonderful choreography, inspired costumes and makeup, upbeat music, and terrific actors who have mastered every detail of primate behavior, from body language to verbal expression.
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You don't have to be Hungarian to love "Ivanov" as rendered by the Katona József Theatre. In fact, you don't have to be any particular nationality to discover the human faces and tragicomic underpinnings of this early Chekhov play.
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Heavy Like the Weight of a Flame
Actor-writer R. Ernie Silva has led a peripatetic and wildly varied life, as revealed in this semiautobiographic solo drama, with a script by Silva and novelist James Gabriel.
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This "Romeo and Juliet" is the real deal. Even if you just saw New York City Ballet's hideous "Romeo + Juliet" this spring—or caught it on PBS in May—you'll want to revisit Shakespeare's tragic love story at American Ballet Theatre.
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In the hands of director Jim Petosa, Neal Bell’s adaptation of Emile Zola’s classic novel is hopelessly mired in the frozen muck of bloodless academia.
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All the words that best describe "The Bully" would damn with faint praise any other show. But in the case of this new children's musical, phrases like "utterly charming" and "totally adorable" really do apply, in the best possible way.
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Comparisons between the new musical "Boogie Rican Blvd." and "In the Heights" are inevitable. Both celebrate urban Latino culture and community spirit.
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The Girl From Monaco (La Fille de Monaco)
Anne Fontaine's "The Girl From Monaco" brings interesting twists—and a feather-light sense of humor—to the worn-out genre of films in which stiff middle-aged men become obsessed with flighty young women.
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A zany ritual occurs on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, where dazed Target shoppers and employees grovel at the altar of commerce and behold with awe the sacraments of shopping.
