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Monday, February 27, 2017

Review: '9 Circles,' a Soldier's Story (and the Damage Done) by Laura Collins-Hughes

An honorably discharged private is at the center of this morality play inspired by Dante's "The Divine Comedy."

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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Why Thornton Wilder Matters in the Trump Era by Laura Collins-Hughes

Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" made its Broadway premiere in 1942. It's back, again, with fresh resonance.

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Thursday, February 9, 2017

Review: A New 'Big River,' Endearing but Ill Timed by Laura Collins-Hughes

At City Center, an irresistible Huckleberry Finn but no new insights into the questions of race and responsibility that his story always raises.

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Monday, February 6, 2017

Review: The God of Wine Stirs No Sexual Whirlwind in 'Hurricane Diane' by Laura Collins-Hughes

A new woman in town is really the Greek god Dionysus incarnated as a gardener with a mission in this eco-play at Two River Theater in New Jersey.

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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Give Them a Hand: Puppet Artists Are Having a Moment by Laura Collins-Hughes

An 11-day celebration of puppet-related stage productions in Chicago, and shows elsewhere, have showed the possibilities of an art form.

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Thursday, January 26, 2017

How to Act Drunk, With Richard Roxburgh by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mr. Roxburgh stars as Mikhail in "The Present," a Chekhov adaptation that floats along on a vodka tide, at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.

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Sunday, January 22, 2017

Review: An 'Orange Julius' Bond Is Complicated by Laura Collins-Hughes

Memory, gender and fantasy blend in this play about a Vietnam veteran and his offspring.

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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Review: 'Albatross' Has an Ancient Mariner but Modern Technology by Laura Collins-Hughes

This solo show, written by Matthew Spangler and Benjamin Evett and starring Mr. Evett, is based on the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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Monday, January 16, 2017

Review: '[Porto]' Features a Bar Regular Looking for Love by Laura Collins-Hughes

This Kate Benson play is set in a Brooklyn spot that promises company and conversation, especially for a lonely woman who wants to attract a man.

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Monday, January 2, 2017

Step Aboard or Put on That Blindfold: 2017's Theatrical Adventures by Alexis Soloski and Laura Collins-Hughes

From Under the Radar to Coil to American Realness and beyond, the curtain's going up on several January festivals that insist on engaged audiences.

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Thursday, December 29, 2016

Eat, Drink, Dance and Be Part of the Play by Laura Collins-Hughes

"The Grand Paradise," "The Dead, 1904," "Drunk Shakespeare" and "Sleep No More" are participation shows offering special events the night of Dec. 31.

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Sunday, December 25, 2016

Review: Hey, Eb, 3 Christmas Spirits Would Like to Chill With You by Laura Collins-Hughes

This six-actor adaptation by Matt Opatrny of the Dickens classic brings humanizing touches to the story.

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Friday, December 23, 2016

Josh Radnor Is 'Existentially Restless.' And That's O.K. by Laura Collins-Hughes

He is writing essays, working on an album and starring in a play, among other things.

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Thursday, December 22, 2016

Surfing and Sondheim: What's on Josh Radnor's Mind by Laura Collins-Hughes

A roundup of what the actor is raving about these days.

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Sunday, December 18, 2016

Review: 'Mytho? Lure of Wildness' Teases the Senses by Laura Collins-Hughes

The work, a trip through Anna Kohler's memories of being a young nude model in Paris, is directed by Caleb Hammond and is partly a sensory experiment.

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Thursday, December 15, 2016

Review: Remembering a Happier Holiday Among Many That Were Sad in 'The First Noel' by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Classical Theater of Harlem's Christmas musical is a memory show; this year it moves to the main stage of the Apollo.

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Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Review: In the Din of 'Clover,' Voices of Loss, Hope and Emmett Till by Laura Collins-Hughes

Erik Ehn's sprawling experimental drama at La MaMa, directed by Glory Kadigan, means to be obscure, though probably not to the degree that it is.

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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

A Producer Spearheads a Collective to Help Hispanics in Theater by Laura Collins-Hughes

Jacob G. Padrón is the artistic director of the Sol Project, which has found deep pockets to finance its goal of ushering Latinos into the theater mainstream.

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Sunday, November 27, 2016

Books of The Times: Review: 'By Women Possessed,' a Remix of a Flawed Eugene O'Neill by Laura Collins-Hughes

This book by Arthur and Barbara Gelb expresses a professional admiration for Mr. O'Neill but goes into great detail about the unflattering parts of his life.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Review: 'Poison,' in Which a Death Separates a Couple and Connects Them by Laura Collins-Hughes

The loss of a young son is the central force in this work by the Dutch playwright Lot Vekemans.

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Monday, November 21, 2016

Review: 'Among the Dead' Deals in War and Family Mysteries by Laura Collins-Hughes

This Hansol Jung play, set from the 1940s through the mid-1970s, centers on a woman with an urn of her father's ashes and includes Jesus in disguise.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Review: 'Man in Snow,' With a Lone Voice Hoping to Stay Connected by Laura Collins-Hughes

This show grew out of Israel Horovitz's radio play of the same name, inspired by an Alaskan avalanche that buried a man in a cabin under 30 feet of snow.

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The Professor of Pratfalls by Laura Collins-Hughes

Christopher Bayes, who teaches physical acting at Yale, has trained a generation of comic performers, including many in "The Servant of Two Masters."

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Monday, November 14, 2016

Review: A Tennis Rivalry That Just Might Sabotage a Friendship by Laura Collins-Hughes

With girlfriends acting as ironic courtside commentators, Andy Bragen's play examines a highly charged pastime for two men entering middle age.

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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Edgar Oliver, Actor and Raconteur, Hews to His East Village Past by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mr. Oliver, who stars in "Attorney Street," the latest installment of his solo trilogy, takes a melancholy stroll around his former neighborhood.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Review: Stranded. And Don't Expect Help From Those Animals. by Laura Collins-Hughes

John Fleck veers into gothic horror spoof in his solo show, "Blacktop Highway," at Dixon Place. With video and puppetry, it is gory and gleefully dark.

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Monday, November 7, 2016

Review: 'Lost Voices' Confronts the Rising Tide of Climate Change by Laura Collins-Hughes

In this program of two one-act plays at Here, the company Eagle Project examines how natural disasters take their greatest toll on minority residents.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Review: In 'Sagittarius Ponderosa,' New Self Confronts Old by Laura Collins-Hughes

This MJ Kaufman play centers on a transgender character who finds solace in an enormous tree as he deals with issues of identity, intimacy and family.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Review: Sisters at War in 'Sweet,' a Triangle Amid '60s Tumult by Laura Collins-Hughes

Harrison David Rivers's new play, at the National Black Theater, pits Kansas siblings against each other in a bid for a Columbia graduate's heart.

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Friday, October 21, 2016

Review: 'The Plough and the Stars,' War and Folly in a Dublin Tenement by Laura Collins-Hughes

Sean Holmes's contemporary take on Sean O'Casey's drama set during the 1916 Easter Rising offers no illusions of heroism.

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Thursday, October 20, 2016

Therapy Becomes Theater in 'Wilderness' by Laura Collins-Hughes

The new multimedia piece, at the Abrons Arts Center, was based on the producer Anne Hamburger's experience with placing her son in wilderness therapy.

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