For me, Sweat hits its riveting stride in its second half, when the pressures of the strike tests the relationships of its working class characters.
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Theater Review: “Quixote Nuevo” — The Impossible Trauma
Octavio Solis’ Quixote Nuevo, is a genial, and very American, riff on Don Quixote.
Theater Review: “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead” — Absurdist Death Pangs
Much ado about nihilism.
Theater Review: “Indecent” — A Dangerous World for People of Faith
Indecent is a play of contrasts: piety versus blasphemy, joy versus heartbreak.
Theater Review: HTC’s “Romeo and Juliet” — A Seamless Marriage between Old and New
The HTC’s Romeo and Juliet may be dressed in modern trappings, but the play’s elemental heart and soul are left fully intact.
Theater Review: Return to “A Doll’s House”? — You Can’t Go Home Again
A Doll’s House, Part 2 comes off as a return to the barn — after the door has fallen off its hinges.
Theater Review: “Man in the Ring” — A Precipitous Fall
Acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Michael Cristofer’s script is very open about portraying Emile Griffith’s sexuality.
Arts Commentary: Another View of “The Niceties”
To an extent, The Niceties does probe a fault line between the Democratic Party and the left: a boundary that will rupture sooner rather than later.
Theater Review: “The Niceties” — The Gloves Are Off
Eleanor Burgess’ The Niceties is an articulate, if structurally crabbed, expression of #blacklivesmatter anger as well as a millennial rebel yell.
Theater Review: A Tepid “Fall”
Fall’s conflict is presented with insufficient power; its domestic tragedy is not propelled along its inevitably troubling course.