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With no Shakespearean model to set a precedent, America's history plays - as showcased in New York this month - are a varied bunch. But how closely should they stick to events?

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In pursuit of US theatre's past perfect by Alexis Soloski

"Anybody can make history," Oscar Wilde quipped. "Only a great man can write it." This year on New York stages, many men and a few women have been attempting to rewrite and revise history in…

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Reed Birney's Brilliant Career by Alexis Soloski

From Swiss Family Robinson to anal stage rape--a chat with the veteran actor

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Alan Rickman, Corrupt Banker in Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman by Alexis Soloski

Alan Rickman has a voice that's bitter and rich and sinister, like a malevolent cup of coffee. "At drama school, it was the subject of a great...

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Under the Radar Returns to NYC by Alexis Soloski

Live actors take a backseat in four festival shows—a roundup review

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Freedom Club Takes Aim by Alexis Soloski

New Paradise Laboratories and the Riot Group try assassination

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Blood From a Stone Smashes Things Up at the New Group by Alexis Soloski

Ethan Hawke stars in Tommy Nohilly's family drama

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Pants on Fire's Metamorphoses Puts Ovid Through Some Changes by Alexis Soloski

A British company brings its revamped myths to the Flea

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Cymbeline and The Misanthrope by Alexis Soloski

English guy and Frenchie get their plays staged

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No actors. Just robots. Call this a play? by Alexis Soloski

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Gruesome Playground Injuries--Rajiv Joseph's Scar Trek by Alexis Soloski

The red and the black-and-blue in a new two-hander

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American Sexy Likes You, Whoreface by Alexis Soloski

Bad play looks at bad kids being bad

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The Whipping Man Looks at a Curious Post-Civil War Moment by Alexis Soloski

Rebs & Jews & slaves in Matthew Lopez's MTC play

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The Witch of Edmonton Speaks of the Devil by Alexis Soloski

Red Bull Theater returns with its latest Jacobean oldie

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Half Straddle Runs a Trick Play by Alexis Soloski

In the Pony Palace/FOOTBALL would confuse Vince Lombardi

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Apple Cove Bears Little Fruit by Alexis Soloski

The Women's Project stages a busy satire

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The Diary of a Madman Brings Some Pleasing Derangement to BAM by Alexis Soloski

Geoffrey Rush flips out in a Gogol adaptation

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A Lost Shakespeare? It’s a Mystery by Alexis Soloski

The Classic Stage Company takes on a production of the play “Double Falsehood,” an adaption by Lewis Theobald of “Cardenio,” a very possible collaboration by Shak…

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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Permission review - spanking comedy makes its mark by Alexis Soloski

Lucille Lortel Theater, New YorkChristian Domestic Discipline, in which a wife submits to being spanked by her husband, is the subject of a slyly poignant play that packs a wallop Continue r…

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