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Theater Review: The Wages of Guilt — The Shocking Relevance of “Operation Epsilon”

March 22, 2013
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Are those who merely stand and watch as guilty as those who drop the bombs, pull the triggers, or run the trains? The question is no less relevant today than more than sixty years ago.

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Theater Review: A Searing “Raisin in the Sun”

March 15, 2013
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Director Liesl Tommy’s unflinching approach gives Lorraine Hansberry’s classic a surprising urgency more than half a century after the drama first played on Broadway.

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Stage Review: Rejuvenating Harold Pinter’s Kinky One-Act, “The Lover”

March 12, 2013
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Whether or not there’s a real lover, or whether all of this is an elaborate fantasy is beside the point. For Harold Pinter, it may all be the same thing.

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Stage Interview: Turf Wars — “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Clybourne Park”

March 10, 2013
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“Clybourne Park” was expressly written to be in conversation with Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.” The former gives us a new perspective — actually new perspectives — on the latter.

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Theater Review: “Clybourne Park” — Chafing at the Raw Wound of Racism

March 8, 2013
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In Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer prize-winning play “Clybourne Park,” resentment and racism chafe at the thin veneer of polite pleasantries.

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Fuse Theater Review: The Indiscreet Indifference of the Bourgeoisie

March 2, 2013
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Both authors generate humor out of the casual inhumanity of the bourgeoise, dramatizing how the farce of middle class success distorts its victors and victims.

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Theater Review: New York Theater Roundup — “Clive,” “The Dance and the Railroad” and “The Flick”

February 27, 2013
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By planning ahead, and purchasing one flexpass, I was able to see a trio of plays in New York during a single weekend for well under $200 — a bargain price for world-class theater productions.

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Theater Review: “Lungs” — The Protocol of a Bittersweet Romance

February 20, 2013
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Presence is the sense that the actors live in the here and now, every minute, every second they are on stage. And Liz Hayes and Nael Nacer do that in the New Rep production of Lungs.

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Theater Review: A Hauntingly Beautiful “Glass Menagerie”

February 11, 2013
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The luminous physical beauty of the production staged by the American Repertory Theater, coupled with carefully crafted performances by its performers, makes this a Glass Menagerie to be cherished.

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Theater Interview: Israeli Dramatist Joshua Sobol on the Shock of “Sinners”

February 6, 2013
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“As a white atheist male I am told it is none of my business to deal with what‘s going on in the so-called de-colonized societies enforcing their religious laws on their citizens.” — Joshua Sobol

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