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    An Evening at the Carlyle

    If only "An Evening at the Carlyle" were, in fact, at the Carlyle. Al Tapper's recherché songs would go down so much easier with a Courvoisier chaser.

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    Heart of the City

    "Heart and the City" has one of those scripts in which several tenuously connected characters grapple with big and small issues in New York City.

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    Someone in Florida Loves Me

    Written and directed by the very talented Jane Pickett, "Someone in Florida Loves Me" is just a sliver of a play, but it's none the less potent for it.

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    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

    Designed to give devoted fans of the 2007 "Transformers" more of the same, Michael Bay's sequel is a nonstop whirl of flying, battling and crashing machinery.

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    August: Osage County

    More than a year after it opened, "August: Osage County," Tracey Letts' Pulitzer Prize–winning dysfunctional-family drama, retains enough heavyweight punch to knock audiences out.

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    From Russia with Angst

    Five members of the WorkShop Theater Company have adapted five Chekhov short stories into one-act plays in "From Russia With Angst." Unfortunately, the short length of each hampers the subtlety and nuance for which Chekhov is renowned.

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    Pound

    Ezra Pound, the influential American poet accused of treason during World War II but never tried, finally gets his chance for a jury verdict in "Pound," written and directed by William Roetzheim.

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    Dov and Ali

    Dov and Ali begins: "Once upon a time, in the middle of a school in the middle of Detroit in the middle of the United States of America, there was a confused teacher and there was a precocious student."

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    Tetro

    Francis Ford Coppola—winner of five Oscars and the man who gave us, among others, "The Godfather" trilogy, "The Conversation," and "Apocalypse Now"—has, at age 70, entered into his "experimental" phase.

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    #9

    Think of the first half of "#9" as the best kind of first date you can possibly imagine: The chemistry is strong and dynamic. Think of the second half of #9 as, well, if not the worst second date you can possibly imagine, certainly one of the worst.