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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Theater Review: Sonya Kelly Stars in 'I Can See Clearly Now' at 59E59 by Anita Gates

"I Can See Clearly Now" is Sonya Kelly's memoir of growing up extremely nearsighted.    

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Friday, September 13, 2013

Theater Review | New Jersey: A Review of 'The Beautiful Dark,' at Kean University by Anita Gates

In "The Beautiful Dark," Erik Gernand has created complicated, recognizable people who are, like most of us, victims of their own flaws.    

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Friday, August 30, 2013

Theater Review: Odets's 'Awake and Sing!' Family Is Alive in TriBeCa by Anita Gates

The National Asian American Theater production of Clifford Odets's "Awake and Sing!" easily make its point that human realities trump ethnicity.    

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Theater Review | Connecticut: A Review of 'Oblivion,' at Westport Country Playhouse by Anita Gates

In "Oblivion," Carly Mensch, a writer known for her work on cable television, asks her audience to consider bigotry from a different perspective.    

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Monday, August 26, 2013

Theater Review: 'Still Jewish After All These Years' Stars Avi Kaufman by Anita Gates

In "Still Jewish After All These Years," at Stage 72, Avi Hoffman offers songs and life lessons from decades in the Yiddish theater.    

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Friday, August 23, 2013

ArtsBeat: New York Fringe Festival Report: 'Waiting for Waiting for Godot' by Anita Gates

Dave Hanson's play is about two understudies waiting for their chance to go on in Samuel Beckett's famed "Waiting for Godot."    

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Friday, August 16, 2013

ArtsBeat: New York Fringe Festival Report: 'The Nightmare Dream' by Anita Gates

Neal J. Freeman's horror comedy mashes up "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and vampire stories.    

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Theater Review | New Jersey: A Review of 'Tovarich,' From the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey by Anita Gates

Jacques Deval's 1933 play about displaced Russian nobility is a European screwball comedy, but it also is much more.    

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ArtsBeat: New York Fringe Festival Report: 'Like Poetry' by Anita Gates

The ghost of Walt Whitman visits a depressed young man in Kristian O'Hare's play.    

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Friday, August 9, 2013

Theater Review | Westchester: A Review of 'The Three Musketeers,' in Garrison by Anita Gates

D'Artagnan and his friends, united as ever, fight for honor and a comically played Louis XIII in Ken Ludwig's adaptation of "The Three Musketeers," now at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festi…

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Friday, July 26, 2013

Theater Review | Connecticut: A Review of 'Loot,' at the Westport Country Playhouse by Anita Gates

Almost half a century after his death, Joe Orton, who would be 80 now, has the power to shock even worldly 21st-century theatergoers. His "Loot" is at the Westport County Playhouse. &nb…

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ArtsBeat: New York Musical Theater Festival Report: 'Legacy Falls' by Anita Gates

James Burn and Ian Poitier's musical is set behind-the-scenes at a long-running television soap opera.    

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Theater Review: Bette Davis Stays and Stays in 'Me and Jezebel' by Anita Gates

"Me and Jezebel," at the Snapple Theater Center, is based on Elizabeth Fuller's memoir of a time in 1985 when Bette Davis came to her home to stay and stay and stay.    

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Theater Review: 'Let It Be,' a Broadway Tribute to the Beatles by Anita Gates

"Let It Be: A Celebration of the Music of the Beatles," at the St. James Theater, winds its way from the band's Liverpool days to the last album, and back again.    

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Monday, July 22, 2013

ArtsBeat: New York Musical Theater Festival Report: 'Gary Goldfarb, Master Escapist' by Anita Gates

The new musical is about an overweight Long Island teenager who dreams of becoming a renowned magician.    

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Friday, July 19, 2013

Theater Review | Connecticut: A Review of 'Smokey Joe's Cafe' Musical, in New Haven by Anita Gates

The Long Wharf Theater has produced a classic jukebox musical that includes audience participation.    

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Theater Review: 'Bill W. and Dr. Bob,' at SoHo Playhouse, About A.A. by Anita Gates

"Bill W. and Dr. Bob," a play about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, is produced by the Hazelden treatment center, but is 99 percent preachiness-free.    

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Theater Review: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Gets a Harlem Spin by Anita Gates

A "Midsummer's Night" production by the Classical Theater of Harlem in Marcus Garvey Park has piquant multicultural touches.    

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Friday, July 12, 2013

Theater Review | New Jersey: A Review of 'Fallen Angels,' at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater by Anita Gates

"Fallen Angels," the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey's newest indoor production, explores the sexual double standard of a bygone era.    

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Theater Review: 'It's Just Sex!' Includes Three Couples and a Seventh Wheel by Anita Gates

"It's Just Sex!," subtitled "A New Comedy About Lust & Trust," is a sweet but very lightweight comedy.    

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Friday, June 21, 2013

Theater Review | Connecticut: A Review of 'The Show-Off,' at Westport Country Playhouse by Anita Gates

In George Kelly's 1924 comedy "The Show-Off," now at the Westport Country Playhouse, a North Philadelphia family is terrified their daughter will marry the no-account Aubrey.  &nbs…

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Theater Review: Eve Plumb Meets Texas Comedy in 'Unbroken Circle' by Anita Gates

James Wesley's "Unbroken Circle," at St. Luke's Theater, stars Eve Plumb in a Texas comedy-drama with a whiff of "August: Osage County."    

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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Theater Review: Neil LaBute and Samuel D. Hunter Offer Plays About Disability by Anita Gates

Theater Breaking Through Barriers presents six short plays by Bekah Brunstetter, Samuel D. Hunter, Neil LaBute and others featuring characters with disabilities.    

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Friday, June 14, 2013

Theater Review | New Jersey: A Review of 'Present Laughter,' at Two River Theater Company by Anita Gates

Noël Coward's witty leading man is the sole center of attention in Two River Theater Company's production of "Present Laughter."    

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Theater Review | Connecticut: A Review of 'Becoming Dr. Ruth,' at TheaterWorks Hartford by Anita Gates

"Becoming Dr. Ruth," at TheaterWorks Hartford, details the life, with its hardships, of the famous on-the-air therapist.    

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Theater Review | Westchester: A Review of 'Last of the Red Hot Lovers,' at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls by Anita Gates

The Schoolhouse Theater's lighthearted production of "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," which first opened on Broadway in 1969, brings back those days with a clear eye and a warm heart. &nbs…

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Friday, June 7, 2013

Theater Review | New Jersey: A Review of 'The Playboy of the Western World,' in Madison by Anita Gates

The Irish comedy "The Playboy of the Western World" is being staged at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater in Madison, through June 23.    

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Monday, June 3, 2013

Theater Review: 'The Seagull' in Central Park by Anita Gates

Stephen Burdman's staging of Chekhov's "Seagull" in Central Park requires the audience to get up and stroll en masse to a new location several times.    

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Friday, May 31, 2013

'Rita Moreno: A Memoir' by Anita Gates

The celebrities that pop up throughout Rita Moreno's memoir include Marlon Brando, Elvis Presley and John F. Kennedy.    

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Theater Review: 'Marcellus Shale,' a Look at Fracking, at La MaMa by Anita Gates

In "Marcellus Shale," townspeople of Rock Valley (site of fracking) try just to sit back and enjoy the monthly checks from the gas company, but that isn't always easy.    

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Friday, May 24, 2013

Theater Review: 'I Wanna Destroy You,' at the Beckett Theater by Anita Gates

Joshua Conkel's comedy "I Wanna Destroy You" involves a face-off with New York characters flaunting unappealing values and a sense of entitlement.    

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