- 5/21/13 /
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Theater Review: The Master Builder, on Very Shaky New Pilings
"When The Master Builder becomes an episode of Gilly, you know something’s wrong."
Stage Dive
- 5/17/13 /
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Theater Review: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Ironic Detachment of 2012
A musical based on a section of War and Peace.
- 5/13/13 /
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A Family for All Occasions Is a Play of One Dimension
Directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
- 5/10/13 /
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Theater Review: Is It Possible to Get Past the Ridiculousness of On Your Toes?
It's a weak production, too. And yet …
- 5/8/13 /
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Theater Review: Chasing Chekhov With Nikolai and the Others
"Nelson’s opening gambit — an appetizer of red herring — pays off spectacularly."
- 5/3/13 /
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Theater Review: A Trampling Bull With Bared Teeth
"It’s just cruel for the easy fun of it."
- 4/26/13 /
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Theater Review: Big Top Pippin
They added a circus!
- 4/25/13 /
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Theater Review: The Not Quite Divine Miss Mengers, in I’ll Eat You Last
"Do we really care how hard it is to make a living as a Sherpa on the slopes of power?"
- 4/23/13 /
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Theater Review: The Quite Contrary Testament of Mary
Conceived without sin (but with tragedy).
- 4/22/13 /
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Theater Review: It Were Done Quickly, This Macbeth
It's cut to barely 100 minutes.
- 4/19/13 /
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Theater Reviews: Orphans and Jekyll & Hyde
"The question that lingers after the swift little dream of Orphans passes is: What just happened? What was that about?"
- 4/18/13 /
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Theater Review: The Heartbreak of The Assembled Parties
It ... may hit you like a punch to the heart.
- 4/17/13 /
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Theater Review: Odets’s The Big Knife Has No Sting
A hard play to defend.
- 4/16/13 /
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Theater Review: The Nance Makes Ideal Use of Nathan Lane
Douglas Carter Beane has written Nathan Lane his best new role in years.
- 4/15/13 /
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Theater Review: Motown: The Musical
The worst jukebox (with the best tunes) I’ve ever encountered.
- 4/12/13 /
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Theater Review: Matilda Is an Irresistible, Whiz-Bang Musical
Somehow, a goodly dose of Roald Dahl’s puckish sourness makes it onstage.
- 4/5/13 /
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Theater Review: Kinky Boots Steps Up and Stands Out
It’s never boring; it’s never shocking; you are likely to leave entirely entertained and satisfied.
- 4/4/13 /
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Theater Review: Barbra Will Not Like Buyer & Cellar, But I Do
Too hilarious, and oddly loving, to shut down.
- 4/3/13 /
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Theater Review: Eleven Years Later, a Return to The Last Five Years
"The structure enforces a cruel balance of joy and despair; someone is always high, someone hurting ... "
- 4/2/13 /
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Theater Review: Lucky Guy and Nora Ephron’s Love for Newsrooms
"Ephron was damned lucky; few writers write their best work last and manage to go out with a bang."
- 3/22/13 /
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Theater Review: Hands on a Hardbody
"How much can even a Texan want a truck?"
- 3/21/13 /
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Theater Review: At Encores!, It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman
A strange musical from another planet.
- 3/21/13 /
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Theater Review: Roughening Up Breakfast at Tiffany’s
How does one turn an untheatrical novel into a compelling play?
- 3/15/13 /
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Theater Review: Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Shameless crowd-pleasing, mostly in a good way.
- 3/14/13 /
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Theater Review: The Flick and The Lying Lesson
Annie Baker finds truth; Craig Lucas, not so much.