An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Bouef
Imagine a world-class Parisian restaurant, complete with staff, owned by an eccentric millionaire who reserves it strictly for his own use.
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Librettist-songwriter S. Claus' tuner is billed as "a groovy '70s musical."
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'Cymbeline' is not known as one of Shakespeare's best, but this production makes the script fully comprehensible and even rather palatable.
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The word dystopia is too genteel. The characters say it more appropriately in this Philip Ridley play: They're living in a hellhole of a world, where brutality can be bought.
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Every player is a comedic gem, and it is a pleasure to watch this improv-based cast, empowered by seasoned chops, seem free to fire off an ad-lib now and then.
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The film reveals that fighting against typecasting is a constant battle for many character actors. Stephen Tobolowsky says it's not a matter of changing your looks but who you are.
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"Television is stupid." Well, duh! That seems to be the big message of "Our House," Theresa Rebeck's slipshod satire on modern media.
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Quantity doesn't always equal quality, and such is the case with these five one-acts, with promising premises stretched to the breaking point, repeatedly straining the audience's patience.
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It's rare for a play that seemed highly pertinent and provocative in its time to feel even more galvanizing nearly two decades later.
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In her determination to write a complex, poetic, political drama about neglected subject matter, Naomi Wallace takes a potentially fascinating situation, story, and characters and, sadly, drains the life out of them.
