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