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Theater Interview: “The Kite Runner” — Adapting an Epic Story to the Stage

September 15, 2012
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“There aren’t a lot of roles for Middle Eastern actors in the United States. And it does mean something to me to be able to create roles like this.”

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Theater Review: “Hand in Hand Together” — The Perils of Political Theater in Translation

September 15, 2012
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Many historical dramas are content to use the past as a lens through which to view the present, but “Hand in Hand Together” does more than explore how conflicting ideologies influenced the creation of modern Israel. Dramatist A. B. Yehoshua explores the other possible routes history may have taken.

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Theater Review: A “Mikado” That’s a Joy to Hear and Behold

September 13, 2012
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The well sung, classically staged Lyric Stage production of “The Mikado” supplies plenty of trip down memory lane satisfactions.

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Theater Review: “Marie Antoinette” — Let Them Eat Images

September 12, 2012
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In its program, the A.R.T. links today’s 1% with the French aristocracy, a stab at relevance that does both the snobby thugs of the French Revolution and the super well-off of today a disservice. Say what you will about the 1%, but they aren’t stupid.

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Stage Interview: Cracking Eggs to Make An Omelet —Talking to Israeli novelist and playwright A.B. Yehoshua

September 8, 2012
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The latest play by the celebrated Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua is a historical drama that revolves around an imaginary conversation between two major political rivals about Zionism and the founding of Israel. Israeli Stage is presenting the American premiere of a staged reading of the script.

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Stage Interview: Eclectic Storyteller Cyndi Freeman Comes Home in “And I Am Not Lying Live”

September 4, 2012
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“Why has it taken so long for me to come back home? I don’t know. I have been thinking about it for years and it just never quite seemed like the right time until now.”

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Theater Review: “Rounding Third” — A Funny But Predictable Turn at Bat

September 1, 2012
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“Rounding Third” flounders most when it tries to get serious. Luckily, it doesn’t try very hard, and delivers considerable amusement.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Satchmo at the Waldorf” — An Off-Key Portrait of a Jazz Giant

August 26, 2012
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As Louis Armstrong, the gifted actor John Douglas Thompson is working with a script whose lines and contours are as woefully predictable as a profile in the old Life Magazine.

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Theater Review: A Sweet and Contagious “Present Laughter”

August 18, 2012
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Actor Jack Koenig never flags in the Peterborough Players production of “Present Laughter,” and around him in his London studio-flat swirls a churning world of impertinent employees and past and present loves that would do Kaufman and Hart proud.

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Theater Interview with David Sokol, Lyricist who made “Shylock Sing The Blues”

August 18, 2012
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“As an artist, you probably know when a project pulls at you, sometimes kicking and screaming. Shylock definitely has me by the back of the neck.”

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