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Theater Review: “Selling Kabul” — Those Who Remain Behind

July 15, 2019
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Selling Kabul poses many questions from the point of view of people seldom represented on the American stage.

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Theater Review: “Rock and Roll Man” — Ambitious Musical Fun

July 13, 2019
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If you enjoy singing and dancing in your theater seat to the sound of good music while learning a bit about American cultural history and its personalities, you will enjoy this show.

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Theater Review: “A Raisin in the Sun” — A Great Evening of Theater

July 9, 2019
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To see Raisin in the Sun in post-Obama America is to experience how a classic both remains emblematic of its time and changes resonance as time passes.

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Theater Review: “Now Circa Then” — Comic Time-Tripping

July 8, 2019
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Opening on July 4, at a moment when immigrants and their living conditions are once again in the forefront of the news, Now Circa Then is an inspired choice. Read More

Theater Review: “Gertrude Stein and a Companion” — A Satisfying Dramatic Fusion

July 4, 2019
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In two short acts, playwright Win Wells depicts not so much a relationship as a fusion, a merging of identities into one single, complex personality.

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Theater Review: “Tea at Five” Doesn’t Deserve Faye Dunaway

July 2, 2019
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Faye Dunaway has chosen Tea at Five as the vehicle to bring her back to Broadway after a 37-year absence. Would that she had waited a bit longer for a vehicle more worthy of her considerable talents.

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Theater Review: A Raucous and Moving “Cloud 9”

June 22, 2019
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Expert performers and taut direction make this Cloud 9 a natural high.

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Theater Review: PortFringe — Heading into the Homestretch

June 22, 2019
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What did this aging hippy, this elder of our world learn? To live a life without apologies.

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Theater Review: “Yerma” — The Tragic Power of Desire

June 21, 2019
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Melinda Lopez’s superb new translation of Yerma makes the language of the play approachable, even conversational, without losing the beauty of Lorca’s poetry.

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Theater Review: “Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven” — Conversation as an Act of Healing

June 20, 2019
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Written more than a decade ago, Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven falls all too painfully closely in line with current events.

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