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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Review: FringeNYC 2011 Review Roundup #8 by Dan Bacalzo, Andy Buck, and David Finkle

Reports on You Only Shoot the Ones You Love, Bongani, and Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera.

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Review: Hero: The Musical by David Finkle

Sung Hwa Chung delivers a strong performance as Korean national hero An Chunggun in this musically derivative tuner.

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Review: FringeNYC 2011 Review Roundup #7 by Dan Bacalzo, David Finkle, and Andy Propst

Reports on The Apartment: A Play with Four Sides, Recovery, and Elysian Fields.

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Monday, August 22, 2011

Review: Bluebird by David Finkle

Simon Russell Beale delivers a must-see performance as a London taxi driver in Simon Stephens' skillfully crafted drama.

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Review: FringeNYC 2011 Review Roundup #5 by David Finkle, Chris Kompanek, and Andy Propst

Reports on The Bardy Bunch, Leonard Cohen Koans, The Mountain Song, Paper Cut, and The Rubber Room.

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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Review: Einstein and Mileva by David Finkle

Gregory Lay and Sarah Manton do fine work in this less-than-persuasive drama about Albert Einstein's unhappy marriage.

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Friday, August 19, 2011

Feature: Wendy Wasserstein: No Lost Cause by David Finkle

Julie Salamon's new biography, Wendy and the Lost Boys, examines the playwright's complex life.

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Review: FringeNYC 2011 Review Roundup #4 by Dan Bacalzo, David Finkle, and Brooke Pierce

Reports on Yeast Nation (the triumph of life), Noir, and Sammy Gets Mugged!

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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Review: Henry V by David Finkle

Ty Jones does a bang-up job in the title role of the Classical Theatre of Harkem's creative production of Shakespeare's play

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Monday, August 8, 2011

First Nighter: Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet Gets Sweet, Bitter Bard College Revival by David Finkle

We need to thank director-adapter Michael Gieleta for the revival of Noel Coward's <em>Bitter Sweet</em> at Bard College's Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Corr…

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Review: The Pillow Book by David Finkle

Anna Moench's play about a married couple facing pregnancy is calculatedly ambiguous and ultimately indecipherable.

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

First Nighter: Greg Hicks Monumental in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale by David Finkle

One person's problem can be another's quick solution, which brings me to the Royal Shakespeare Company's version of <em>The Winter's Tale</em>, currently on view during Lincoln C…

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Monday, August 1, 2011

Review: That Championship Season by David Finkle

Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth, Jason Patric, and Kiefer Sutherland bring Jason Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama to urgent and abrasive life.

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City Spotlight: London Spotlight: March 2011 by David Finkle

March highlights include Joanna Riding in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Betty Blue Eyes, directed by Richard Eyre; Peter Brooks' production of Mozart's Magic Flute; The Hurly Burly Show; Matth…

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Review: The Merchant of Venice by David Finkle

F. Murray Abraham gives a strong performance as Shylock in Darko Tresnjak's cogent -- and remarkably timely -- revival of William Shakespeare's play.

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Review: Good People by David Finkle

Frances McDormand delivers a Tony-worthy performance as a working-class mother desperate for a job in David Lindsay Abaire's comedy-laced drama.

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Feature: London's Monster Hits! by David Finkle

TheaterMania reports on Frankenstein, The Heretic, Greenland, Season's Greetings, Company, and Clybourne Park.

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Review: The Children's Hour by David Finkle

Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss star in Ian Rickson's utlimately effective revival of Lillian Hellman's quasi-tragedy about two women facing rumors of lesbianism.

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Review: The Road to Qatar by David Finkle

This autobiographical tuner about a pair of songwriters trying to quickly write a musical is relentlessly unentertaining.

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Review: Three Sisters by David Finkle

Anton Chekhov's classic play about a trio of unhappy Russian siblings gets an uneven production.

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Review: Nixon in China by David Finkle

John Adams and Alice Goodman's remarkable historical opera makes a long-overdue debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Peter Sellars' thrilling production.

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Review: Lost in the Stars by David Finkle

City Center Encores! offers a workmanlike production of Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill's musical adaptation of Cry, the Beloved Country.

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Review: Molly Sweeney by David Finkle

Geraldine Hughes, Ciaran O'Reilly, and Jonathan Hogan deliver excellent performances in the Irish Rep's excellent revival of Brian Friel's mesmerizing work.

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City Spotlight: London Spotlight: February 2011 by David Finkle

Highlights include Michael Crawford in Andrew Lloyd Webber's revamped Wizard of Oz, the London premiere of Million Dollar Quartet, Julie Atherton in Ordinary Days, Benedict Cumberbatch and J…

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Review: The Old Masters by David Finkle

Sam Waterston, Brian Murray, and Shirley Knight deliver first-rate performances in Simon Gray's compelling play about the art world and an unusual domestic arrangement.

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Review: The Misanthrope by David Finkle

The Pearl Theatre serves up a problematic production of Moliere's caustic comedy.

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Review: The Misanthrope by David Finkle

The Pearl Theatre serves up a problematic production of Moliere's caustic comedy.

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Review: What the Public Wants by David Finkle

The Mint Theatre serves up a beautifully acted production of Arnold Bennett's 1909 play about a scheming newspaper mogul.

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Review: Cymbeline by David Finkle

The six-actor Fiasco Theater troupe approaches Shakespeare's opus with ingenuity and a sense of fun.

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Review: Cymbeline by David Finkle

The six-actor Fiasco Theater troupe approaches Shakespeare's opus with ingenuity and a sense of fun.

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Review: Men Go Down by David Finkle

John Jahnke's highly visual spin on Greek mythology proves to be shockingly empty.

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