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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Off-Broadway Review: "Charm" at MCC Theatre at the Lucille Lortel Theatre by David Roberts

At first glance, Philip Dawkins's "Charm," currently playing at MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, is a heartfelt play about Mama Darleena Andrews (played with a spirited transcenden…

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Friday, October 6, 2017

Off-Broadway Review: "Mary Jane" at New York Theatre Workshop by David Roberts

Mary Jane experiences the breadth and depth of transcendence and catharsis at the play's end in a scene rich in magical realism immersed in blessed redemptive release.

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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Off-Broaday Review: "A Clockwork Orange" at New World Stages by David Roberts

Under Ms. Spencer-Jones's precise and inventive direction, the ensemble cast of "misfits" and "miscreants" deliver uniformly authentic performances that challenge the status-quo understandin…

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Off-Broadway Review: "Tiny Beautiful Things" at the Public's Newman Theater by David Roberts

Watching "Tiny Beautiful Things" at The Public's Newman Theater can be described as experiencing the vicissitudes of the human experience through the kaleidoscopic lens of sheer redemptive g…

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Sunday, October 1, 2017

Off-Broadway Review: "The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord" at Primary Stages by David Roberts

Duane Boutté, as "Charles Dickens," Michael Laurence as "Thomas Jefferson," and Thom Sesma as "Leo Tolstoy find themselves locked in what they soon discover is a "room" in Heaven " not even…

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Friday, September 29, 2017

Off-Broadway Review: "As You Like It" Pleases the Palate at Classic Stage Company by David Roberts

Under John Doyle's exacting direction, the ensemble cast is uniformly excellent. Their performances " believable and authentic " carefully explore their characters' levels of complexity and …

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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Off-Broadway Review: "The Treasurer" at Playwrights Horizons by David Roberts

"The Treasurer" is a memory play narrated by The Son who attempts to "confront" his difficult mother in a long-distance relationship by phone and only succeeds in confronting his own deep-se…

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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Off-Broadway Review: "Small World" at 59E59 Theaters by David Roberts

Review of the Off-Broadway Play "Small World" by Frederick Stroppel

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

"Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson Furniture Painter" at Minetta Lane Theatre by David Roberts

Bergur Ingolfsson directs REVOLUTION's energetic and talented cast with precision and depth. The cast creates authentic characters " not caricatures " and Mr. Ingolfsson provides convincing …

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

"Dancing on Nails" at Theatre 80 by David Roberts

All the characters in Mr. Kane's delightful tragic-comedic drama are dancing on nails except, perhaps, Luba Fogel (Bryna Weiss) who shares the story of a man dancing on nails in the West Vil…

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

"Bend in the Road" at the New York Musical Theatre Festival at the PTC Performance Space by David Roberts

BEND IN THE ROAD is a delightful character-driven musical lifted from the framework of the classic 1908 novel "Anne of the Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The musical - like those bef…

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