Theater
I found myself almost wishing the dramatist had written a longer play (a rare desire coming from a theater critic).
Read MoreIs a romantic relationship with someone who is lovely — but mentally ill — worth the effort?
Read MoreLet us hope that today’s revelations will be taken more seriously than charges of sexual harassment and assault were back in 1993.
Read MoreMatthew Woods and his actors do not draw on a faux-naturalist performance style, which is so (unfortunately) fashionable in mainstream theater.
Read MoreThe bottom line is that we simply aren’t given a requisite sense of the play’s embrace of tragedy.
Read MoreWe are invited to see the world through the eyes of an adolescent whose autism makes human communication and contact incredibly difficult.
Read MoreComing of age in today’s world is a tumultuous and confusing experience; Ken Urban’s script expertly taps into these modern anxieties.
Read MoreThe short volume promises a glimpse into Patti Smith’s intuitive creative process — but disappoints.
Read MoreAn invigorating staging of Henrik Ibsen’s still pertinent play about spinelessness up and down the political spectrum.
Read MoreAn entertaining but surprisingly slight monologue from Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol.
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