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Thursday, June 22, 2017

Horton Foote's "Traveling Lady," Yes, Definitely; Isla van Tricht's "Underground," Yes; J. M. Synge's "Aran Islands," Su by David Finkle

Horton Foote, who died at 92 in 2009, devoted most of his playwriting (originally television playwriting) to chronicling

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Horton Foote's "Traveling Lady," Yes, Definitely; Isla van Tricht's "Underground," Yes; J. M. Synge's "Aran Islands," Su by David Finkle

Horton Foote, who died at 92 in 2009, devoted most of his playwriting (originally television playwriting) to chronicling

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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

LCT3/ThirdRail Projects Immersive "Ghost Light," Yes-No?; Holocaust Drama "Terezin" Very Much No by David Finkle

It might be that today's young (and younger) theater crowd is just as familiar with immersive theater"sometimes called interactive

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Friday, June 16, 2017

Torben Betts's "Invincible," Yes; Charles Ludlam's "Artificial Jungle," Yes-Yes; Lory Lazarus's "Attack of the Elvis Imperson by David Finkle

Marrieds Oliver (Alastair Whatley) and Emily (Emily Bowker) enter arguing in Torben Betts's Invincible, at 59E59 Theatres

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Torben Betts's "Invincible," Yes; Charles Ludlam's "Artificial Jungle," Yes-Yes; Lory Lazarus's "Attack of the Elvis Imperson by David Finkle

Marrieds Oliver (Alastair Whatley) and Emily (Emily Bowker) enter arguing in Torben Betts's Invincible, at 59E59 Theatres

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:43AM[SHARE]

Torben Betts's "Invincible," Yes; Charles Ludlam's "Artificial Jungle," Yes-Yes; Lory Lazarus's "Attack of the Elvis Imperson by David Finkle

Marrieds Oliver (Alastair Whatley) and Emily (Emily Bowker) enter arguing in Torben Betts's Invincible, at 59E59 Theatres

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Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Kevin Spacey Wins His Case in "Clarence Darrow" at Arthur Ashe Stadium by David Finkle

Kevin Spacey, who keeps on proving he can play anyone and do anything, reveres Clarence Darrow. During his highly successful

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Thursday, June 8, 2017

Franz Kafka's "Hunger Artist" Eats Up the Stage, "Woody Sez" Tells Guthrie's Folksy Tale by David Finkle

Performer Jon Levin, writer Josh Luxenberg and director Joshua William Gelb have taken A Hunger Artist, Franz Kafka's difficult

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Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Anthony Horowitz's "Magpie Murders" Is Two Hot Mysteries for the Price of One by David Finkle

Anyone reading this who's sold on Foyle's War and/or Midsomer Murders or, for that matter, the Sherlock Holmes follow-up

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Thursday, June 1, 2017

Jordan Tyson Is a Winning Musical "Sweetee" by David Finkle

Drunk, streetwalker, apparently little educated Violet (Katy Blake) doesn't literally spell the name "Sweetee" any time during

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Thursday, May 25, 2017

"The Boy Who Danced on Air" Dances on Air by David Finkle

Looking for an offbeat musical? A way, way offbeat musical? Look no further than The Boy Who Danced on Air, at Abingdon Theatre

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Sunday, May 7, 2017

Val Vigoda Is a Fiddling Firecracker in "Ernest Shackleton Loves Me," Saheem Ali Celebrates Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" by David Finkle

Val Vigoda is a compact bundle of talent. She plays a strapped-on electric violin like a demon. She sings with a voice that

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Friday, May 5, 2017

J. B. Priestley's Rediscovered "The Roundabout" a Must-See, "Marry Harry," a Musical Less So, Randy Sharp's "Dead End" R by David Finkle

Here's great news. A forgotten J. B. Priestley play has just resurfaced. It's The Roundabout, and it hasn't been seen since

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J. B. Priestley's Rediscovered "The Roundabout" a Must-See, "Marry Harry," a Musical Less So, Randy Sharp's "Dead End" R by David Finkle

Here's great news. A forgotten J. B. Priestley play has just resurfaced. It's The Roundabout, and it hasn't been seen since

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:42AM[SHARE]

J. B. Priestley's Rediscovered "The Roundabout" a Must-See, "Marry Harry," a Musical Less So, Randy Sharp's "Dead End" R by David Finkle

Here's great news. A forgotten J. B. Priestley play has just resurfaced. It's The Roundabout, and it hasn't been seen since

SOURCE: www.huffpost.com at 11:42AM[SHARE]
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Dianne Wiest's Winning Winnie in Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days" by David Finkle

Whatever else it is, Samuel Beckett's Happy Days is without doubt a test that many of our most formidable actresses give

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Monday, May 1, 2017

Stephen Karam's Nerds Revenge "Speech and Debate" Comes to Screens by David Finkle

The nerds have been having their revenge for a few decades, and Stephen Karam introduces three more in Speech and Debate

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Thursday, April 27, 2017

In Lucas Hnath's "A Doll's House, Part 2" Nora Finally Breaks Down That Door by David Finkle

Providing sequels to classics is a great temptation, particularly for authors who don't necessarily believe that characters

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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

"Bandstand" Boasts an Upbeat Downbeat by David Finkle

Bandstand is being promoted as "a swing musical," and that's what it joyfully is, as director-choreographer Andy (Hamilton

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"The Antipodes," Annie Baker's New Play About Story-Telling, Tells an Only So-So Story by David Finkle

What the hugely gifted Annie Baker is getting at in The Antipodes, her new play at the Signature Center, is something I think

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Monday, April 24, 2017

Anastasia May Not Be an Imposter, But "Anastasia" the Musical Is by David Finkle

Full Disclosure: I have not seen the 1997 20th Century Fox animated cartoon Anastasia for which several screenwriters apparently

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Sunday, April 23, 2017

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Encounters Assembly Line Glitches by David Finkle

The 8- or 9-year-old girl farther along the aisle from me at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory told me she was having a good

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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Zayd Dohrn's "The Profane" a Fair-to Middling Families Feud by David Finkle

American drama overflows with dysfunctional families, and those plays often require a living room set with a couch facing

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Friday, April 7, 2017

Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole Slather the Make-Up Excessively in "War Paint" by David Finkle

Friedrich Schiller decided that even though Elizabeth I and half-sister Mary, Queen of Scots never actually met, they really

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Thursday, April 6, 2017

Harvey Fierstein Deftly Rows Martin Sherman's "Gently Down the Stream by David Finkle

Forty-two years ago with International Stud, Harvey Feinstein introduced the first of the three plays that eventually became

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Kevin Kline in Perfectly Funny "Present Laughter" by David Finkle

At the risk of joining the critics crew who toss out the adjective "magnificent" far too frequently, I'm going to say that

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Saturday, April 1, 2017

Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape" in Richard Jones's First-Rate Vision by David Finkle

Let's get right to it: Richard Jones's grappling with Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape (1922) is without question the production

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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

William Inge Looks Twice at the Hot, Anxious Mid-West by David Finkle

There are playwrights who are brought up among women and, as a result, shape their works from that perspective. A prime example

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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

John Leguizamo's "Latin History for Dummies" is Whip-Smart by David Finkle

It's fascinating how much theater literature includes a father-son theme. Perhaps unexpectedly, that's at the heart of John

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John Leguizamo's "Latin History For Morons" Is Whip-Smart by David Finkle

There are substantial laughs along the way.

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Thursday, March 23, 2017

"Miss Saigon" is Back and Weirdly Imposing as Ever by David Finkle

It may be the most famous coup de theatre in Broadway history: The appearance of the helicopter in the second act of Miss

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