Where have we seen this scenario before? A brilliant, independent woman—perhaps a little too intellectual for her own good—is afflicted with a debilitating disease.
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Joanna Chan's new production, 'In the Silence of the Heart', originally conceived for the inmates of Sing Sing prison, retains a lingering amateurish quality that does her earnest, implausible script no favors.
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'Fifth of July', Lanford Wilson's classic play about the disillusionment of flower children in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, is currently receiving a sparkling revival courtesy of T. Schreiber Studio.
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'Asclepius', has all the hokey charm and good intentions of a 16th-century masque created by high school students. It is colorful, earnest, and on the nose, with explanatory lyrics, mostly dull music, uneven performances, and occasionally engaging spectacle.
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Leslie Ayvazian's new play deserves an audience, but the one at the performance I saw isn't the one it needs. I don't think confusion is a factor: 'Make Me' is a frisky comic fugue about three couples battling for sexual and emotional dominance.
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At first glance it feels like a special edition of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', but soon into Woody Allen's latest film, you realize that its star, Larry David, is channeling his writer-director.
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"There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination." These wonderful words occur nowhere during "Coraline," yet this equally wonderful adaptation of the popular children's book does much to prove their truth.
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Lillian Hellman's consummately crafted 1939 drama can be viewed as a distinguished forerunner to latter-day portraits of fierce familial warfare, such as 'The Lion in Winter' and 'Dallas'.
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Winning the best foreign-language film Oscar over such formidable competition as 'Waltz With Bashir' and the Cannes Palme d'Or winner 'The Class' was a surprising triumph for 'Departures.'
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Shakespeare, space, Socrates, symbolism—What Goes Up shoots for the moon. With a combination of unorthodox scenarios, unsympathetic characters, and uneven performances, it's doomed to never get off the ground.
