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Monday, May 25, 2015

Review: Banished Children of Eve at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

The Irish Repertory Theatre's adaptation of Peter Quinn's novel about the 1863 Draft Riots should be more gripping than it is.

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Review: Spirit Control at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

The teeth and fist clenching situation makes for a slam-bang first ten minutes or so of this world premiere by up and coming playwright Beau Willimon. It's also a bravura acting opportunity …

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Review: Angels in America at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Hats off to the Signature Theatre Company for launching its Tony Kushner season with a magnificent new production which fully realizes the play's epic and enduring theatricality.

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Review: The Scottsboro Boys at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Kander and Ebb's dark musical dances to Broadway with its jazzy pizazz heightened

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Review: In the Wake at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Finally a new play focusing on Lesbians. . .if only Lisa Kron had made it less polemic and talky . . .

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Review: Middletown at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

While Middletown is indeed an Our Town of sorts, don't count on the same homespun pleasures that have made Thornton Wilder's play one of our most durable stage classics.. .

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Review: That Hopey Changey Thing by Elyse Sommer

Richard Nelson's election day dinner party is about as timely as you can get -- perhaps a bit too precociously so. On the other hand,you don't need stimulus money to see it six top of the li…

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Review: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

The problem with this film to musical stage adaptation can be summed up in a single word: onkepatchket, a Yiddishism for too busy and overly decorated costume and home decor. While Catherine…

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Review: After the Revolution at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Amy Herzog's three-generation family saga is a treat: A beautifully staged and performed, intelligent play . . .

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Review: The Pee-Wee Herman Show at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Director Alex Timbers has assembled a crew of theatrical artisans to re-create the funtastic atmosphere that once made the show such a hit

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eview: Personal Enemy at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

an interesting artifact by a still emerging young playwright, but don't expect a lost masterpiece .

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Review: The Merchant of Venice at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

the quality of good acting makes makes Shakespeare's controversial play a Broadway success . . .

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Review: There Are No More Big Secrets at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

There's a lot going on in Heidi Schreck's play -- perhaps less would have been better

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Review: Lingua Franca at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

worth seeing for the well portrayed characters and the opportunity to revisit an era straight out of octogenarian Peter Nichols' own youth

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Review: Elling at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Despite a stellar cast, this very un-Broadwayish production may be too quirky and foreign to be a Broadway crowd pleaser

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Review: The Collection & A Kind of Alaska at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

a pair of playlet given Pinter-perfect interpretions by actors who know how to make those by now well known pauses speak volumes

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Review: The Break of Noon at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

Film and TV actor David Duchovny makes an auspicious stage debut as one of Neil LaBute's Everymen in need of toning their moral muscles.

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Review: Rosmersholm at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

In Rebecca West Ibsen created a woman every bit as complex as the better known Hedda Gabler and the Pearl production of this rarely produced play is well worth seeing

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Review: Three Pianos at curtainup.com http://www.curtainup.com/3pianos.html by Elyse Sommer

this hard to classify 3-man show is probably one of the most unusual approaches to serious music as theate

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Not a Review on Spider-Man: at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

could the beleagured musical actually create a new profitable Broadway template?

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Review: Blood From a Stone at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

-If a star ranking system were applied to dysfunctional family dramas, with five for situations extreme to the point of violence, this new play would handily rate 5 stars.

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Review: The Importance of Being Earnest at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

In this latest revival of Wilde's ever popular farce the lady is a guy . . .

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Review: Screenplay at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

a Hollywood story with a Faustian twist . . . .

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Review: Screenplay at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

a Hollywood story with a Faustian twist . . . .

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Review: Other Desert Cities at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

The people gathered in this California drawing room are a politically divided and indivisibly connected family whose dialogue sparkles with enough quotable quips to rival Oscar Wilde. . .

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