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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

The Mystery of Love & Sex review " reticent characters get a voice by Alexis Soloski

Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E Newhouse, New YorkAn actor with a face built for discontent animates a drama about a young interracial couple whose family keep butting into their low-w…

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Monday, March 2, 2015

Review: 'The Man in the Woman's Shoes,' a Mikel Murfi Solo Play by Alexis Soloski

In this play at the Irish Arts Center, Mr. Murfi's cobbler has to deliver goods to a customer, and the audience gets to hear his internal monologue.

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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Review: 'Comfort Dogs' Explores the Solace of Communing With Canines by Alexis Soloski

This experimental play by William Burke, whose cast includes dogs played by humans and real dogs, forces you to look at the nature of communication a little differently.

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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Review: 'Five Times in One Night,' at Ensemble Studio Theater by Alexis Soloski

Chiara Atik's series of comedy sketches has a lewd title and a tender heart.

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Review: 'Bright Half Life,' a Two-Woman Play by Tanya Barfield by Alexis Soloski

Ms. Barfield's new drama at City Center explores a long-term relationship from start to finish, but not necessarily in that order.

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Jason Biggs on Broadway: 'I'm more complicated than I ever realised' by Alexis Soloski

The actor once struggled to move on from American Pie-type roles, but now he is digging deeper as he costars in the Broadway revival of The Heidi Chronicles Continue reading...

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Brooklynite review " superheroes hit New York in genial musical by Alexis Soloski

Vineyard Theater, New YorkWith characters created by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, this show has good jokes for Brooklyn aficionados but never generates real heat Continue reading...

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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Elisabeth Moss, a Career Woman, in 'The Heidi Chronicles' by Alexis Soloski

Ms. Moss returns to Broadway, portraying a successful professional wondering if she can have it all in this 1988 Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Review: 'The Winter's Tale' and Its Wronged Queen, via the Pearl Theater Company by Alexis Soloski

The Pearl Theater Company's "The Winter's Tale" plays out as a tipsy dinner party that skids toward tragedy over dessert.

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Friday, February 20, 2015

Review: 'The Groundling,' a Backstage Farce With Heartbreak by Alexis Soloski

Marc Palmieri's half comedy and half tragedy, at Axis Theater, follows a landscaper turned playwright who hires some New York professionals to stage his work in his Long Island garage.

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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Faces to Watch: Heroes, Sidekicks, Cartoonists by Erik Piepenburg, Robin Pogrebin, Roslyn Sulcas and Alexis Soloski

The coming season brings exciting challenges for new artists working on and off Broadway.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Review: In 'Horseplay,' a Terrible Actress Becomes Her Era's Kim Kardashian by Alexis Soloski

Trav S.D.'s play, at La MaMa, is based on the life of Adah Isaacs Menken, a flamboyant liar and theater star of the mid-1800s.

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Hamilton review " founding father gets a hip-hop makeover by Alexis Soloski

Public Theater, New YorkThis exuberant and original new musical mashes up genres from rap to operetta, creating a flawed but glorious portrait of the face on the $10 billIn a letter to Georg…

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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Mac Wellman, a Playwriting Mentor Whose Only Mantra Is Oddity by Alexis Soloski

A professor at Brooklyn College has helped to turn out some of the city's most wildly inventive young playwrights by shooing them out of their comfort zones.

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Friday, February 13, 2015

The Iceman Cometh review " a near-perfect Eugene O'Neill by Alexis Soloski

Brooklyn Academy of Music, New YorkLaughter in the dark rings loudly in this uncut, immaculately cast and virtuosically staged five-hour version of O'Neill's excoriating drama Continue readi…

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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Theater Review: Review: 'Everything You Touch,' a Brash Examination of Self-Image by Alexis Soloski

Sheila Callaghan's volatile new work touches on beauty and body image, intimacy and alienation, art and commerce, fantasy and reality.

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Cush Jumbo Summons the Spirit of Josephine Baker at Joe's Pub by Alexis Soloski

"Josephine and I," Ms. Jumbo's new solo show, tells the story of Josephine Baker, the St. Louis-born performer who became a legend in Paris.

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Brian Dennehy: 'My director says I have more rage than anyone he's known' by Alexis Soloski

At 76, the actor is currently climbing a theatrical mountain: the five hours of Eugene O'Neill's bleak The Iceman Cometh. Yet he can't resist " the playwright's work, he says, is 'like being…

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Brian Dennehy: 'My director says I have more rage than anyone he's known' by Alexis Soloski

At 76, the actor is currently climbing a theatrical mountain: the five hours of Eugene O'Neill's bleak The Iceman Cometh. Yet he can't resist " the playwright's work, he says, is 'like being…

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Sunday, February 8, 2015

Theater Review: 'The Listeners,' a Matthew Freeman Drama at the Brick by Alexis Soloski

The play "The Listeners" centers on two drifters, contradictions and shifting identities.

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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Theater Review: 'City Of,' by Anton Dudley, Has People and Parisian Statues by Alexis Soloski

Anton Dudley's "City Of" focuses on four Americans stumbling around Paris, and a gargoyle named Pierre.

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Monday, February 2, 2015

Theater Review: 'The Human Symphony,' From the New York Neo-Futurists by Alexis Soloski

"The Human Symphony," Dylan Marron's new play, is performed by six audience members taking instruction from MP3 tracks.

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Sunday, February 1, 2015

Theater Review: 'Shesh Yak' Stars Laith Nakli and Zarif Kabier by Alexis Soloski

"Shesh Yak," created by Laith Nakli, is set four years ago during the first heady days of protest during the uprising in Syria.

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Friday, January 30, 2015

A Month in the Country review: Taylor Schilling stars in pleasant but anaemic play by Alexis Soloski

The star of Orange is the New Black proves that she's a real theatre actor, but for all the fine performances, this is a tepid revival of a second-rate play Continue reading...

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Monday, January 26, 2015

Theater Review: 'Nevermore,' a Musical Biography of Edgar Allan Poe by Alexis Soloski

Jonathan Christenson's "Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe" opens at New World Stages.

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Theater Review: 'Da,' Hugh Leonard's 1978 Tony Winner, Via Irish Rep by Alexis Soloski

"Da," Hugh Leonard's semi-autobiographical work, is a memory play with a spectral turn as a son is visited by his father's ghost.

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Let the Right One In review " an uncanny love story of pure theatricality by Alexis Soloski

St Ann's Warehouse, New YorkHaving played in London and Scotland, this stage version of the Swedish book and film has lost none of its eeriness " or its brutality Continue reading...

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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Into the Woods review " a bare-bones take on a meaty musical by Alexis Soloski

The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Centre for Theatre, New YorkA lo-fi version of Stephen Sondheim's classic, currently in the cinema, manages to be both lucid and moving " despite the odd bum …

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Theater Review: 'Winners,' a Domestic Comedy at Ensemble Studio Theater by Alexis Soloski

Maggie Bofill's domestic comedy "Winners" stars Grant Shaud and Florencia Lozano as a couple with relationship and peanut butter problems.

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'Rasheeda Speaking' Stars Tonya Pinkins and Dianne Wiest by Alexis Soloski

"Rasheeda Speaking," by the Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson, is a dark comedy about racism both covert and obvious, and stars Tonya Pinkins and Dianne Wiest.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Theater Review: 'Mrs. Mayfield's Fifth-Grade Class of '93 20-Year Reunion' by Alexis Soloski

Caps Lock Theater's immersive, site-specific "Mrs. Mayfield's Fifth-Grade Class of '93 20-Year Reunion" enlists its audience members as classmates.

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