- 9/14/12 /
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Theater Review: Athol Fugard’s The Train Driver
"The strength of parable and a brief length to match."
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- 9/11/12 /
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Theater Review: Chaplin: The Musical
"Earnest, on-the-nose, and exhaustively idiot-proofed."
- 9/7/12 /
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The Stage Dive Weekend Roundup: Forbidden Broadway and Mary Broome
Go see some theater this weekend, why don't ya?
- 8/31/12 /
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Theater Review: Sam Shepard's Heartless
"If you thought the RNC was an endless parade of sociopaths, mountebanks, and paranoiac mutterers, wait until you get a load of this."
- 8/17/12 /
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The Stage Dive Weekend Roundup: Two Shakespeares and a Foote
Harrison, TX, Richard III, and Coriolanus
- 8/10/12 /
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Theater Review: Into the Woods Is a Strange, Awkward, Flawed Success
This whole operation feels a little buried in its own footprint. Yet the cumulative result is inescapably magical.
- 8/9/12 /
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Theater Review: Woody Harrelson’s Bullet for Adolf
"A long, wet, occasionally musical fart unsphinctered in a crowded theater."
- 8/3/12 /
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Stage Dive: In Paris Makes Good Use of Baryshnikov’s Wry Charisma
This May-December romance set in the shadow of Red October ends Sunday. So get on it!
- 8/2/12 /
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Theater Review: The Unexpected Charms of Bring It On: The Musical
Really, really unexpected charms.
- 7/24/12 /
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Stage Dive: Cate Blanchett in Uncle Vanya
"Blanchett is a genuinely gifted physical comedienne."
- 7/23/12 /
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Theater Review: Musical Dogfight Shows Some Teeth
This new chamber musical is a production to remember and celebrate, as well as the announcement of several major talents.
- 7/14/12 /
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The Stage Dive Weekend Roundup
Fela! returns, along with Caryl Churchill's Serious Money. Plus Spiegelworld!
- 7/10/12 /
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Theater Reviews: Alan Cumming Talks to Himself; Tom Murphy Speaks to Us
We watch this Macbeth with deep interest, with great admiration, but not with much concern.
- 7/5/12 /
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Theater Review: The Stage Dive Weekend Edition
A trio of light summer productions: Triassic Parq, Potted Potter, and The Lombardi Case 1975/The Ryan Case 1873.
- 7/3/12 /
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Theater Review: Shakespeare on the Sound’s Romeo and Juliet Is a Cool Summer Show
Catch the Shakespeare classic in a Greenwich park.
- 6/27/12 /
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The Stage Dive B-movie Theater Edition: Recall and Sovereign
Our theater critic reviews two shows with genre elements.
- 6/22/12 /
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The Stage Dive Weekend Roundup: Uncle Vanya, Harvey, and Slowgirl
Use your off days for some high art, why don't ya?
- 6/22/12 /
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Theater Review: The Mini-Fest Destiny of Shakespeare in the Park’s As You Like It
There's nothing here but pleasure and pleasantry, making it a fine but minor dish.
- 6/21/12 /
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Theater Reviews: Today’s Stage Dive Last-Chance Roundup
Reviews of Rapture, Blister, Burn and Storefront Church.
- 5/25/12 /
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Theater Reviews: The Stage Dive Memorial Day Roundup
February House, The Common Pursuit, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Title and Deed and My Children! My Africa!
- 5/24/12 /
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How Can Musical Theater Be Saved? Broadway Veterans Give Their Advice
Twenty-three veteran producers, directors, composers, and writers tell New York theater critic Scott Brown what can be done to jump-start the form.
- 5/18/12 /
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The Stage Dive Weekend Review: Cock and pool (no water)
Special “British Playwrights Who Are Shamefully Underproduced in the U.S.” edition.
- 5/11/12 /
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Theater Reviews: The Stage Dive Weekend Roundup
Paul Weitz’s Lonely I'm Not and Sophie Gets the Horns.
- 5/4/12 /
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Theater Review: The Stage Dive Weekend Roundup
Shaw's Saint Joan, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and David Rabe's An Early History of Fire.
- 5/3/12 /
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Which Other Avengers Should Head to Broadway?
Scarlett Johannson and Jeremy Renner are heading to the Great White Way. Who else should follow?