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Theater Review: “We All Fall Down” — Flat

January 29, 2020
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In the spirit of Passover’s four questions, I will ask: Why this play of all plays?

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Theater Review: “Maytag Virgin” — Love Blossoms, Memorably

January 25, 2020
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Maytag Virgin accomplishes what it sets out to do and then some: it is a compelling two-hander about grief and romance that explores how the two emotions can intermingle.

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Theater Review: “Timon of Athens” — Greed is not Good

January 24, 2020
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Timon is a fascinating, if lumpy and bumpy, black comedy with a nihilistic sting, a lacerating parable about how the worship of gold warps individuals and society.

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Theater Review: “The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes” — Cognitive Play

January 24, 2020
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The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes suggests some marvelous possibilities.

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Arts Remembrance: Homage to Claudio Roditi

January 23, 2020
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Apart from Claudio Roditi’s musical skill, what stood out was his warmth.

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Theater Review: “The Undoing of Prudencia Hart” — Lost in Spaciness

January 21, 2020
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Unfortunately, no improvements to the staging will clarify dramatist David Greig’s muddled storyline.

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Theater Review: “Pass Over” — An Unforgiving World

January 19, 2020
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If one of the aims of art is to create a distinctively imaginative world, than Pass Over succeeds in generating a landscape of devastation, a hopeless place filled with gaping wounds and visible scars.

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Theater Review: “The Effect” — Beware the Nasty Side Effects

January 16, 2020
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The Effect is about the brain, pharmaceuticals, and how little we know about each.

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Theater Review: “The Cake” — Thoughtfully Baked

January 15, 2020
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Dramatist Bekah Brunstetter sidesteps easy answers and pat revelations to produce a nuanced comedy about people coming to terms with who they are and where they are from.

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Theater Interview: Tony-winning actress Kelli O’Hara — Broadway is not Enough

December 31, 2019
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” I want to try everything, study everything. I just love this work.”

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