- 2/4/11 /
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Stage Dive: Two Things to See Before You Die This Weekend
Not to be missed: A Chaplinesque clown show from the Parallel Exit troupe and a starmaking performance from Jeremy Gumbs.
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- 2/4/11 /
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Stage Dive: Sarsgaard and Gyllenhaal in Three Sisters as Robert Altman Cocktail Hour
Everyone is slightly miscast in Austin Pendleton's take on Chekhov's Sisters--and mostly that works to this production's advantage.
- 2/2/11 /
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Stage Dive: Off Broadway’s Streak of Violence
Characters in plays are an actuarial nightmare
- 2/1/11 /
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Stage Dive: Olympia Dukakis Rides the Milk Train With Darkly Comic Monstrosity
As another of Tennessee Williams's randy old dowagers, Dukakis does the best she can with some truly strange text.
- 1/31/11 /
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Stage Dive: Tommy Tune and James Franco Figure Out How to Work Cheap
How to succeed in theater without really spending.
- 1/28/11 /
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Stage Dive: David Auburn’s Back! Sort Of
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of 'Proof' returns with an adaptation of a mothballed drawing room comedy by a playwright no one has heard of. And perhaps for good reason.
- 1/26/11 /
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How Other Shows Should Take a Cue From The Motherf**ker With the Hat’s Naughty Asterisks
'How to ****eed in Business Without Really ******' is a lot more compelling, isn't it?
- 1/21/11 /
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Theater Review: Cymbeline Revitalizes Shakespeare’s Much-Mocked Epic
The production reminds us what theater, at its simplest and most powerful, is really for: The alchemical thrill of watching an entire world conjured into being out of sheer wit and will.
- 1/19/11 /
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Stage Dive: The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church
British comedy hero Daniel Kitson's one-man show recounts how being a polite Brit can really put a damper on killing yourself.
- 1/14/11 /
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Stage Dive: Fiona Shaw and Alan Rickman Rip Into Ibsen
And who doesn't want to see that? Ibsen's nasty John Gabriel Borkman is at its black-comic best when these two bite into it.
- 1/14/11 /
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Theater Review: Other Desert Cities Makes Rich Families Fighting Feel Fresh Again
"Quicker than you can say 'All My Sons,'' our critic is hooked on polarized clans again.
- 1/14/11 /
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Stage Dive: An Absolutely Perfect (and Important) Earnest
Oscar Wilde's classic comedy is so ingrained in our shared comedy unconscious that it seems impossible to make fresh. That is, unless you're Brian Bedford.
- 1/13/11 /
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Stage Dive: Ethan Hawke Better Than Ever in Blood From a Stone
The play is flawed — a majestic wallow set to the music of blue-collar despair — but the voice of playwright Tommy Nohilly is very promising.
- 1/11/11 /
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Stage Dive: Freedom Club Is the Most Eerily Prescient Show of the Week
This elaborate doomsday scenario about assassination, our ambient insanity, and its complex relationship with American politics was just a little too close for comfort after the events of this weekend.
- 1/7/11 /
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Stage Dive: A Weekly Roundup, This Time With Vampires and Hot Sex!
Another vampire that sucks on Broadway, and two plays with amorous coupling for all ages!
- 1/6/11 /
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Stage Dive: Which Shows Are Worth a Critical Encore?
What should I see again?
- 1/3/11 /
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Rage Dive: Scott Brown Rants About Incidental Music
Next up: Scott Brown is irritated by vitamin supplements!
- 12/20/10 /
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Theater Review: Watch an Actor Commit Career Suicide in His Apartment. One-of-a-Kind Theater You Don’t Want to Miss!
Ed Schmidt's haunting one-man show in his Brooklyn bachelor pad is about how theater has failed him in his hour of need.
- 12/20/10 /
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Theater Review: Three Pianos Is a Party That Won’t End (But Should Have)
It's a relaxed-fit evening of hip musical scholarship and guys’-night-in yammering.
- 12/17/10 /
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Could the Future of Great Theater Be in Your Hands? And Is That a Good Thing?
The tantalizing possibility of a new era of Kickstarter theater.
- 12/14/10 /
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Breathless Countdown to Stephen Sondheim on The Colbert Report!
Personally, I'm hoping for an incredible two-man version of "Another National Anthem" from 'Assassins.'
- 12/10/10 /
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Theater Review: Edna O’Brien’s Haunted Is an Anglo-Irish Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The play mates two dazzlingly great performances and gets under your skin, but it stops well short of a full Edward Albeean purge.
- 12/9/10 /
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Theater Review: A Blind Date You Will Actually Enjoy
Rebecca Northan has arrived at a remarkable insight: An unscripted comedy-hour is really no different than a blind date — right down to the two-drink minimum.
- 12/8/10 /
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Theater Review: Yes, I Am Recommending a Seven-Hour Play About Afghanistan
'The Great Game' is seven mostly remarkable, nearly always riveting hours of docudrama--a download of Wikileaksian proportions
- 12/7/10 /
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Theater Review: Artist Meets Artist in John Kelly’s Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte
John Kelly is performing his unclassifiable multimedia show for the last time.