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Monday, May 2, 2016

Review: Long Day's Journey Into Night at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Jessica Lange headlines an outstanding cast in the Roundabout's splendid revival of O'Neill's masterpiece. .

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Review: Shuffle Along, Or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed. at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

George C. Wolfe and his starry team turn this mostly forgotten musical into an entertaining history lesson about black musical theate

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Monday, April 25, 2016

Review: Waitress at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

a promising Broadway debut for singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles and another award-winning performance by Jessie Mueller

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

Review: In The Secret Sea at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

the top heavy plot with its too convenient details makes one wonder if Cate Ryan's new family drama wouldn't work better as a documentary.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Review: Exit Strategy at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Ike Holter tackles our dysfunctional public education system with a compelling mix of poignancy and humor. .

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Monday, April 4, 2016

Review: Antlia Pneumatica at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

despite all the food preparation and ideas toossed into Anne Washburn's "Big Chill" play you're left hungry for more clarity.

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Review: The Crucible at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

- Ivo Van Hov's highly effective take on Arthur Miller's classic allelgory

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Review: Bright Star at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Another bluegrass tuner, this one on Broadway and by the multi-talented Steve Martin and songwriter Edie Brickell.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Review: Stupid Fu**ing Bird at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Aaron Posner's clever riff of Chekov's The Seagull at the Pearl's 42nd Street home

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Review: Head of Passes at  curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

- Tarell Alvin McCraney uses a dysfunctional Louisiana family to tackle Book of Job questions

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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Review:Dry Powder at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

- a dark comedy about the publicly condemned but business as usual world of private investment firms

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Monday, March 21, 2016

Review: The Effect at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

The romance that propels her plot may at first seem like a mostly authorial device to lighten things up, but it turns out to be as as combustible and unsettling as the complexities of the si…

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Friday, March 18, 2016

Review: Blackbird at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Jeff Daniels and Michell Williams still make the aptly named David Harrower's psychodrama harrowing

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tml Review: She Loves Me at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

The Roundabout gets everything right in its revival of this musical theater charme

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Review: Hold On to Me Darling at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

A world premiere of Kenneth Lonergan comic look at our celebrity culture Read More

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Monday, March 14, 2016

Review: Southern Comfort at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

A dark, different and deeply moving musical gets a fine production at the Public theater

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Sunday, March 13, 2016

Review: The Humans at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Our review Stephen Karam's family drama on Broadway. . .

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Friday, March 11, 2016

Review: Boy at curtainup.com/ l by Elyse Sommer

Bobby Steggert gives a powerhouse performance in Anna Ziegler's fact-based new play

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Monday, March 7, 2016

Review:Red Speedo at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

he real drug obessing the characters in Lucas Hnath play is the drug of misguided ambition Read More

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Review: Eclipsed at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Disturbing and outstandingly staged as ever

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Review: Hungry at curtainup.comhungrypublic16/ by Elyse Sommer

Richard Nelson's new Rhinebeck cycle gets off to a good start

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Friday, March 4, 2016

Review: Familiar at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Danai Gurira most personal play and her first venture into comedy drama

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Friday, February 26, 2016

Review: A Room Of My Own at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Charles Messina write and directs a play tapping into his memories of growing up in Greenwich Village in the late '70s. Too bad it's only intermittently poignant or funny. .

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Review:Women Without Men at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

The Mint once again fulfills is archeological mission with Hazel Ellis's all female play nodding to diversity in action with a female director and all female crafts team. .

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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Review: The Body of an American at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Even without the all too timely focus on what's entailed in being a photo-journalist in bloody war zones, seeing Michael Crane and Michael Cupstey on stage throughout this 2-hander's 90-minu…

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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Angel Reapers at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Playwright Alfred Uhry and director-choreographer's Martha Clarke's dance=theater piece focuses on the struggle-filled life of the Shaker community's founder Ann Lee and the fallout of the g…

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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Buried Child at curtainup.com/Sam Shepard by Elyse Sommer

Ed Harris heads Sam Shepard's creepy American gothic family in the New Group's riveting revival.

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Friday, February 12, 2016

Review:Smart People at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

- Lydia R. Diamond's conversation about prejudice is stylishly staged and timely but not quite as smart a satire as it wants to be

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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Review: Sense & Sensibility at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

Bedlam's hilariously inventive take on Jane Austen's first novel

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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Review: Prodigal Son at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

John Patrick Shanley compelling new coming-of-age play turns his trilogy based on personal history into a tetralogy. . .

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Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Review: The Woodsman at curtainup.com/ by Elyse Sommer

The multi-talented James Ortiz has created a hauntingly beautiful, spectacularly imaginative adult theater piece about the back story of how a flesh and blood wood chopper turned into Frank …

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All that Chat

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