Saturday, February 27, 2010

Brave Men and True: The Temperamentals

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Near the end of The Pride , Alexi Kaye Campbell’s solidly-acted, emotionally moving play juxtaposing the lives of gay men in the 1950s a...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Quick Takes on Three New Off-Broadway Shows

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I recently attended previews of three new off-Broadway shows: Mr. and Mrs. Fitch , The Pride , and Clybourne Park . Here are my impressio...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Jerky Ride Through the Mind of a Mass Murderer

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Some plays are intended to disturb --not just by shaking up the audience through provocative ideas, but by using the theatrical platform t...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

Off-Broadway Delights, Part III: The Irish Rep

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T he Irish Repertory Theatre is probably my favorite Off-Broadway venue. The creativity and skill behind its productions is all the more r...
Thursday, January 7, 2010

Off-Broadway Delights, Part II

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This is the second in an ongoing series of postings about Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway acting companies that provide some of the best ...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Ragtime disappoints

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I’m back after a longer-than-anticipated intermission, owing to other commitments that have kept me away from these pages, although, I has...
Sunday, November 29, 2009

Race: Mamet misses the mark

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I seldom leave a show so awed by the writing that I have wanted to pick up a copy of the script in order to relish the playwright’s command...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

Kaye and Mostel: Together Again for the First Time

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So…what are two nice Jewish boychiks from Brooklyn doing hanging out in a couple of churches in midtown Manhattan? Think you wouldn’t g...
Monday, November 9, 2009

Off-Broadway Delights, Part I

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New York theater-going audiences are blessed with many Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway acting companies offering exciting, intriguing, an...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

First in a series: What's on Your iPod?

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This is the first of an ongoing and intermittent series of musings on the theater-related music, Podcasts, and video files I have downloade...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Two Unrelated Plays By David Mamet

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Stichomythia. Now there’s a word you don’t get to use too often. But it aptly describes the dialog in “School,” the shorter of the tw...
Friday, October 16, 2009

Broke-ology

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Broke-ology, in its New York debut following a successful run at the Williamstown (Massachusetts) Theatre Festival last summer, is an engag...