Theater

Theater Review: “School Girls” — Teaching Lessons

May 6, 2019
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School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is a serious comedy that takes aim at our provinciality and ignorance.

Theater Review: Another View of “Indecent” — Flat and Obvious

May 5, 2019
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In the case of a scene set in the Lodz Ghetto, the lineup of characters on the way to the concentration camps veered, for me, close to Holocaust porn.

Theater Review: “Caroline, or Change” — In Purgatory, All Souls Are Tested

May 4, 2019
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This evening is a revelatory experience on race relations, with grief, rage, and the whole business of hope and change.

Theater Review: “Indecent” — A Dangerous World for People of Faith

May 4, 2019
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Indecent is a play of contrasts: piety versus blasphemy, joy versus heartbreak.

Theater Review: “Ink” Leaves Its Stain on Broadway

May 2, 2019
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James Graham’s new play almost evokes sympathy for the devil. Almost.

Theater Review: “Trigger Warning” — Not Quite Explosive

April 30, 2019
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As Zeitgeist Stage Company closes its doors, it’s hard not to wonder, with some bitterness, what our plucky local small-scale theater troupes would be able to accomplish if they had the resources they need.

Theater Review: “Beetlejuice” Bombards Broadway

April 27, 2019
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Beetlejuice may not be the blockbuster its creators are hoping for, but it is occasionally humorous and rarely dull.

Theater Interview: Playwright Paula Vogel on “Indecent” and a Love of Yiddish

April 22, 2019
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“Yiddish is above all a language of yearning, a language of anxiety.”

Theater Review: “American Moor” — Lasting Impressions

April 13, 2019
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American Moor sheds considerable insight into the tension between actor vs. director, into the power play between the two, and who will ultimately prevail.

Theater Review: “The Clearing” — Timely Historical Drama

April 12, 2019
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The Clearing pulls off an impressive challenge for a historical drama: it examines humanity’s weakness in the face of prejudice in a way that is not only faithful to the time period but unmistakably timely.

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