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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Review: In 'The Power of Punctuation,' Judging Potential Mates by Their Texts by Laura Collins-Hughes

Natalie Margolin's play centers on three female college roommates whose bonds are tested by the strict rules they use for dating in the digital age.

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Sunday, July 17, 2016

Review: In 'Good' and 'No End of Blame,' Politics and Prickly Debate by Laura Collins-Hughes

These revivals, presented by the Potomac Theater Project, speak to contemporary politics and cultural debate.

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Thursday, July 14, 2016

Review: 'The Annotated History of the American Muskrat' Is Worried About America by Laura Collins-Hughes

This play wants to be many things, most of all a commentary on the American Dream, but it is dreamlike in the wrong way.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

A Theater Company's Secret to Success: Bedlam by Laura Collins-Hughes

In just four years, Eric Tucker and Andrus Nichols's New York-based company has become a critical darling. It's also keeping them busier than ever.

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Thursday, July 7, 2016

From Dante to 'Walking Dead,' He's a Master of Immersive Theater by Laura Collins-Hughes

The director and designer prepares his new show, "Paradiso: Chapter 1," a suspense thriller that is also a game.

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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Review: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' for a Nimble Audience by Laura Collins-Hughes

In this outdoor production of a Shakespeare classic, audience members follow the actors around through the park.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Review: 'The Flying Doctor by Molière (over and over and over)' Revels in Repetition by Laura Collins-Hughes

By performing it multiple times in rapid succession, flexCO turns a 17th-century farce inside out.

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Friday, June 24, 2016

Review: Get No Kick From the Rockettes in 'New York Spectacular' by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Radio City show's aim seems to be selling tickets to people who would rather sit back and watch a sanitized simulation of the city.

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Monday, June 20, 2016

Review: Cheering Up Eugene O'Neill With Song, Dance and Puppets by Laura Collins-Hughes

In "The Iceman Lab, " a four-act rethinking of "The Iceman Cometh" at Here, the mood at that depressing saloon has really livened up.

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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Is 'Shrew' Worth Taming? Women Directors Keep Trying by Laura Collins-Hughes

"The Taming of the Shrew," now at the Delacorte Theater, reminds women of their duty to their husbands. Here's a take from a critic " and how some female directors view it.

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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Review: 'Seen / By Everyone' Repurposes Your Social Media Words by Laura Collins-Hughes

This play, directed by Kristin Marting, emphasizes love and mourning through a collage of real online posts.

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Friday, June 10, 2016

Review: 'Go down, Moses,' Romeo Castelluci's Mostly Wordless Story of Abandonment by Laura Collins-Hughes

Deploying visceral images and sounds, this production at Montclair State University is a radical transfiguration of the Moses story.

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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Review: 'Universal Robots,' a Sci-Fi Love Story in Slo-Mo by Laura Collins-Hughes

Arguments among intellectuals take precedence in Mac Rogers's play, set in Czechoslovakia in the years after World War I and overstuffed with ideas.

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Review: 'Himself and Nora' Revels in a Complicated Joyce by Laura Collins-Hughes

This Jonathan Brielle musical retells the story of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle as a couple and as early-20th-century iconoclasts.

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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Women on Broadway: A Year of Living Dangerously by Laura Collins-Hughes and Alexis Soloski

Roles were spread around this year, but women are often still playing victims. Our critics discuss what worked, what didn't and what they hope to see.

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Friday, May 27, 2016

Review: 'Harry and the Thief,' a Trip Back to the Plantation by Laura Collins-Hughes

Sigrid Gilmer blends time travel with runaway slaves in this comedy at the Robert Moss Theater, which features a heroic yet human Harriet Tubman.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Review: Mike Albo's Journey From Donor to Dad in 'Spermhood' by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mr. Albo's new solo show, at Dixon Place, relates his immersion in the world of clinics and blood tests when he agrees to help his best friend become pregnant.

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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Review: '1599,' a Mini-Marathon Devoted to Shakespeare's Work that Year by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Irondale Ensemble explores four plays that he was writing in 1599.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Review: 'Evening " 1910,' a Slice of Life on the Bowery With Movies on the Horizon by Laura Collins-Hughes

This sung-through show at Axis Theater, from Randy Sharp and Paul Carbonara, looks and sounds good, but the story is a murk of confusion.

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Thursday, May 5, 2016

Touring the East Village's Incubator of Experimentation by Laura Collins-Hughes

Performance Space 122, a center of arts innovation, is offering a mobile tour of sites related to creative performance in the neighborhood.

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For Paula Vogel, a Once-Banned 'Beautiful' Love Story Inspires Her New Play by Laura Collins-Hughes

Created with the director Rebecca Taichman, "Indecent" is inspired by Sholem Asch's Yiddish play "The God of Vengeance."

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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Review: 'Crude,' and That Refers to More Than Oil by Laura Collins-Hughes

Jordan Jaffe's dark new eco-comedy stars Nico Tortorella as a callous young oil heir worried that his life may be ruined by a Gulf of Mexico spill.

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Review: An 'Idiot,' Telling a Tale by Laura Collins-Hughes

Structured as a response to Dostoyevsky, this production pares the cast to four.

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Monday, May 2, 2016

Review: In 'The Place We Built,' Politics Grip a Hungarian Bar by Laura Collins-Hughes

This Sarah Gancher play, set in Budapest, features a group deciding whether to fight a shutdown just as their country is shifting to the right.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Review: 'The School for Scandal' Is Full-Throated Satire by Laura Collins-Hughes

Red Bull Theater's jaunty new production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's work is directed by Marc Vietor at the Lucille Lortel Theater.

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Monday, April 25, 2016

Review: Tina Satter's 'Ghost Rings,' an Elliptical Tale of Lost Connections by Laura Collins-Hughes

This new production from Ms. Satter's theater company, Half Straddle, combines a pop concert and a drama as it explores two relationships gone awry.

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Thursday, April 14, 2016

Alice Birch Speaks Softly and Writes Loud Plays by Laura Collins-Hughes

The British playwright's American debut, "Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.," is a call for feminist revolution with a ferocity absent from her personal demeanor.

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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Review: 'Six Characters' Excavates Past and Present, Inspired by Pirandello by Laura Collins-Hughes

This play, an investigation of family, creativity and home, takes its main inspiration from Luigi Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author."

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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Review: In 'Happily After Ever,' a Couple's Impossible Choice by Laura Collins-Hughes

Laura Zlatos's play at 59E59 Theaters sets up a retro rom-com world of young marrieds and introduces a baby whose sex can't be determined.

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Review: 'Locusts Have No King,' a Love Triangle Comedy by Laura Collins-Hughes

The four characters in J. Julian Christopher's play consider this question: Is the priesthood a closet, a refuge or both?

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Monday, April 4, 2016

Review: 'Wrestling Jerusalem,' a Solo Show and Act of Faith by Laura Collins-Hughes

Aaron Davidman's play about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict trusts in the power of the human voice and the capacity of the human heart.

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