Ayad Akhtar

Book Review: A Brilliant “Homeland Elegies” — Indispensable Witness

November 5, 2020
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What Ayad Akhtar reveals, with stunning detail and a passion and an urgency rarely seen in American fiction, is that his is a story marked by a loneliness similar to that found in Melville, Dreiser, and T.S. Eliot, among others, and that puts him squarely in their company.

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Theater Review: New York Round-Up — “Junk,” The Red Shoes,” “The Band’s Visit”

November 17, 2017
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The irony implied by Junk after the curtain goes down is the realization that white collar crime does pay.

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Theater Review: “The Who & the What” — And the Why?

April 11, 2017
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The script softens up the issue of patriarchal authoritarianism by plugging it into a family comedy structure.

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Theater Review: “Disgraced” — Relevant, But Soap Opera

January 15, 2016
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Given the rise of radical Islamic terrorism, Disgraced is nothing if not timely.

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