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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Review: 'Losing Tom Pecinka' Challenges Audience to Get the Message by Laura Collins-Hughes

Purposefully formulaic characters, a gender bend and a ghost with the name of a company member come together in this sendup of a play.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Review: 'The Tempest' Brings Music and Spirits to Marcus Garvey Park by Laura Collins-Hughes

Carl Cofield directs the Classical Theater of Harlem's production, which stars Ron Cephas Jones as Prospero.

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Monday, June 29, 2015

Review: In Beckett's 'Happy Days,' a Woman Buried Deep by Inertia by Laura Collins-Hughes

Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub star in this production at the Flea Theater, directed by Andrei Belgrader.

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Friday, June 26, 2015

Review: John Kelly Revives 'Love of a Poet' by Laura Collins-Hughes

This performance artist and singer has remade his "Love of a Poet," based on Robert Schumann's song cycle "Dichterliebe."

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Monday, June 22, 2015

Review: In 'At the Table,' a Menu of Identity-Based Arguments by Laura Collins-Hughes

Michael Perlman's play, presented by Fault Line Theater, convenes a group of dinner party guests who tussle over abortion, race and class.

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Douglas Carter Beane Returns to His Childhood Home by Laura Collins-Hughes

The playwright took a bus from Manhattan to Reading, Pa., to revisit the theater that inspired his new play, "Shows for Days."

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Theater Review: Review: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Embraces Fun and Folly of a Classic by Laura Collins-Hughes

Tamilla Woodard delivers a breezy production that is warm-blooded and frolicsome for Masterworks Theater Company.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Review: 'The Pavilion,' a Class Reunion Drama, at Barrow Group Theater by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Craig Wright's comic romance, Kari and Peter meet again at their 20th high school reunion, and he wants her back.

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Review: Loudon Wainwright III's 'Surviving Twin' Is a Father-Son Collaboration by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mr. Wainwright combines his work with that of his father, the writer Loudon Wainwright Jr., in his solo show.

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Sunday, June 14, 2015

Review: 'The Old Masters,' Art Found, Artist Lost and Another Adrift by Laura Collins-Hughes

Sam Marks's play, at the Flea Theater, tackles art-world pretensions and a frustrated painter and father-to-be's existential crisis.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Review: Panti's 'High Heels in Low Places' Delivers Identity Politics in Stilettos by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Irish drag queen Panti, who gained fame when her speech about homophobia went viral, makes an argument for the freedom to be oneself at the Irish Arts Center.

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Monday, June 8, 2015

Review: 'Smile at Us, Oh Lord' Depicts a Jewish Odyssey by Laura Collins-Hughes

This mournful play, adapted from a novel by the Israeli-based Lithuanian author Grigory Kanovich, is presented by the Cherry Orchard Festival.

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Friday, June 5, 2015

Review: 'J. Edgar Klezmer: Songs From My Grandmother's F.B.I. Files' Tells All at Here Arts Center by Laura Collins-Hughes

Eve Sicular's play documents her grandmother's life, with help from J. Edgar Hoover's watchful eye and meticulous records.

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Review: At Ensemble Studio Theater, Men and Women Chatting Privately by Laura Collins-Hughes

This theater's 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays includes a marital comedy by Julia Cho and a portrait of intimacy and entitlement by Martyna Majok.

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Snapshot: 'Cuddles,' From Joseph Wilde, Turns the Tables on a Fear of Horror by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mr. Wilde talks about his unnerving vampire tale at 59E59 Theaters, which depicts two women " one all-controlling, the other wrapped up in fantasy tales.

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Friday, May 29, 2015

Review: In 'The Upper Room,' Homesteaders Living an Eco-Nightmare by Laura Collins-Hughes

Jeremy Bloom and Brian Rady's play, at the New Ohio Theater, includes Catherine Brookman's music, rising water levels, New England farmers and marine animals behaving oddly.

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Review: 'For the Last Time' Sets a Hawthorne Novel in New Orleans, in 1950 by Laura Collins-Hughes

Nancy Harrow and Will Pomerantz collaborate on this jazz musical at the Clurman Theater at Theater Row.

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Monday, May 25, 2015

Hot for teacher by Laura Collins-Hughes

Amanda Palmer's secret weapon for ART's "Cabaret"? Her high school mentor.

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Is Inge coming back into vogue? by Laura Collins-Hughes

Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Peter DuBois didn't have to look far to find someone raising an eyebrow or two at his desire to revive William Inge's “Bus Stop.'' The firs…

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Fictional town sets Annie Baker's plays in motion by Laura Collins-Hughes

Annie Baker will have three of her "Shirley, Vt." plays performed in a festival of her work.

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Harm for the holidays by Laura Collins-Hughes

At the Huntington Theatre, collaborators reunite for a new play that reveals a family's tragic flaws at festive times, "Vengeance Is the Lord’s."

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Eye of the storm by Laura Collins-Hughes

She conjures a ‘Tempest' with a twist in her new film, but Julie Taymor is at the center of a very different maelstrom with her mega-budget Broadway musical, ‘Spider-Man'

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On stage, taking risks by Laura Collins-Hughes

With aerial stunts, how can performers stay safe?

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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Review: In Sara Fellini's 'In Vestments,' Haunted by More Than Ghosts by Laura Collins-Hughes

Theater 4the People's new play, about a crumbling church and the people trying to hold it together, takes place in a church on the Upper West Side.

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Sunday, May 17, 2015

Review: A Molière-Born Cad for the Ages in 'Don Juan' by Laura Collins-Hughes

Jess Burkle's larkish adaptation of Molière's "Don Juan," at the Pearl Theater, features modern colloquial language and a loud-spoken costume.

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Monday, May 4, 2015

Review: 'Red Flamboyant' Is Earthbound and Flush With Romanticism by Laura Collins-Hughes

Don Nguyen's play at Anderson Hall was inspired by a newspaper article about H.I.V.-positive women in Vietnam, but is most successful when it strays away from the source material.

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Review: 'Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity,' Young New Yorkers Tell Their Stories by Laura Collins-Hughes

Five young New Yorkers are featured in Ping Chong + Company's new work of interview-based theater at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in Long Island City, Queens.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Review: 'Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic' Explores the Murky Death of the Actress Olive Thomas by Laura Collins-Hughes

The death by poison of the "Ziegfeld Follies" beauty in Paris in 1920 is the subject of an immersive theater piece at the Liberty Theater.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Review: 'The Unexpected Guest,' From Agatha Christie, Dispenses With a Bully by Laura Collins-Hughes

The new Theater Breaking Through Barriers production at the Clurman Theater opens with a dead body in a wheelchair.

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Friday, April 10, 2015

Review: 'Clinton the Musical' Proves Unimpeachably Amusing by Laura Collins-Hughes

The show employs satire without the bite of meanspiritedness.

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Monday, April 6, 2015

In Bess Wohl's 'Small Mouth Sounds,' a Loss for Words Leads to a Gain in Insight by Laura Collins-Hughes

The characters in a new play say almost nothing, an exercise in mindfulness that was both challenging and relieving for its writer.

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