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Friday, July 18, 2014

Ally Sheedy Still Gravitates to Dark Characters by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ally Sheedy returns to the stage, with her celebrity toned down, playing a mother whose son is imprisoned for rape in the Off Broadway drama "The Long Shrift."

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Monday, July 14, 2014

Theater Review: 'The Pigeoning,' a Bunraku Play for Grown-ups by Laura Collins-Hughes

"The Pigeoning" follows Frank, who believes pigeons are plotting against him in this puppet play created and directed by Robin Frohardt.

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Friday, July 11, 2014

ArtsBeat: New York Musical Theater Festival Report: 'Searching for Romeo' by Laura Collins-Hughes

Brian Sutton's romantic comedy spends time with the suitors left behind after Romeo and Juliet fall in love.

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ArtsBeat: New York Musical Theater Festival Report: 'Cloned!' by Laura Collins-Hughes

Sharon Stone, circa 1993, and a nerdy scientist who has a crush on her are two of the characters in "Cloned!"

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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Theater Review: Acrobatics and High Winds in 'Fuerza Bruta: Wayra' by Laura Collins-Hughes

"Fuerza Bruta: Wayra" is a mixed-media happening at the Daryl Roth Theater in which the audience is in the thick of things, and sometimes even wet.

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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Theater Review: Poking Fun in 'Too Many Lenas 3: Let Them Eat Cake' by Laura Collins-Hughes

Carroll Simmons, a performance collective, created a parody about Lena Dunham in "Too Many Lenas 3: Let Them Eat Cake."

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Monday, June 30, 2014

Theater Review: 'The Other Mozart' at Here Arts Center by Laura Collins-Hughes

"The Other Mozart," a one-woman show by Sylvia Milo, tells the story of Wolfgang's sister.

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Friday, June 27, 2014

The 'Mysteries' Cast Discuss Life as Struggling Actors by Laura Collins-Hughes

The young cast members of "The Mysteries" at the Flea Theater in TriBeCa perform free, while holding down or looking for jobs by day.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Theater Review: In 'Carnival Kids,' a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme With a Twist by Laura Collins-Hughes

Lucas Kavner's surprising and very funny new play, "Carnival Kids," directed by Stephen Brackett, is part a reckoning of a father-son relationship.

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Friday, June 6, 2014

Theater Review: Spanish-Language 'Vagina Monologues' at Westside Theater by Laura Collins-Hughes

"Los Monólogos de la Vagina," a version of Eve Ensler's work in Spanish, is using the typical rotating-cast format in its run at the Westside Theater.

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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Theater Review: A War on Boredom in 'The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise' by Laura Collins-Hughes

"The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise" features characters who admit that their worlds could use more spark.

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Friday, May 30, 2014

Theater Review: 'Eugene Onegin,' a Blended Version, at City Center by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Vakhtangov State Academic Theater's "Eugene Onegin" at City Center is a play with music and dance, composed of scenes from the Pushkin novel in verse.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Theater Review: The Drilling Company Presents 'Hamlet' in Bryant Park by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Drilling Company's streamlined, audience-friendly, "Hamlet" kicks off the free Bryant Park Shakespeare season.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Theater Review: 'Under My Skin,' a Comedy at the Little Shubert Theater by Laura Collins-Hughes

"Under My Skin," a body-swapping comedy at the Little Shubert Theater, may bring on flashbacks from your cinematic past, circa the Reagan administration.

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Theater Review: William Inge's Revised 'A Loss of Roses' at St. Clement's by Laura Collins-Hughes

A fragile out-of-work actress moves into her widowed friend's home and becomes entangled with her friend's son, in "A Loss of Roses."

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Theater Review: '17 Orchard Point,' a Tale of a Strained Family by Laura Collins-Hughes

"17 Orchard Point," by Anton Dudley and Stephanie DiMaggio, is no heartwarming parent-child love fest.

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Friday, May 2, 2014

Theater Review: 'Peddling,' in Brits Off Broadway, Plumbs a Youth's Soul by Laura Collins-Hughes

In "Peddling," written and performed by Harry Melling, a young man tries to scratch out a living selling "life's essentials" door to door.

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Thursday, May 1, 2014

John Noble in 'The Substance of Fire' by Laura Collins-Hughes

John Noble, the Australian actor perhaps best known for his roles in "Lord of the Rings" and the TV series "Fringe," is making his New York theater debut in "The Substance of Fire."

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Theater Review: In 'Tough Titty,' a Family Confronts Breast Cancer by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Oni Faida Lampley's semi-autobiographical play, the mother of a newborn and her family deal with breast cancer.

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

The Women of 'A Raisin in the Sun' by Laura Collins-Hughes

A conversation with LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Anika Noni Rose and Sophie Okonedo, now starring with Denzel Washington in the Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's drama.

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Friday, April 18, 2014

Theater Review: 'Ubu Sings Ubu' Adapts 'Ubu Roi' With Pere Ubu's Music by Laura Collins-Hughes

"Ubu Sings Ubu" mixes a Google Translate version of the 1896 scatological satire "Ubu Roi" with songs by the experimental rock band Pere Ubu.

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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Theater Review: 'A Respectable Widow,' About an Unusual Friendship by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Brits Off Broadway festival brings a double bill of "A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity" and "Clean" to 59E59 Theaters.

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Friday, March 28, 2014

'The Mysteries' Rewrites a Medieval Tradition by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ed Sylvanus Iskandar needed four dozen playwrights to create "The Mysteries," almost six hours of brand-new Bible stories based on an English medieval tradition.    

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Theater Review: 'Jasper in Deadland' Is a Musical About the Underworld by Laura Collins-Hughes

In "Jasper in Deadland," Matt Doyle charms his way into the underworld to find his dead best friend.    

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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Theater Review: 'The Real Americans' Is a Familiar Road Trip by Laura Collins-Hughes

Dan Hoyle's solo show "The Real Americans" channels America's just plain folks with compassion and respect, even as it comments on our national inability to understand one another. &nbs…

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Theater Review: 'The Shape of Something Squashed' Takes a Poke at Actors by Laura Collins-Hughes

Billed as a comedy, "The Shape of Something Squashed" means in part to gibe the ruthless self-absorption of successful artists, but it also offers a portrait of an actor as an almost invisib…

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Theater Review: 'London Wall,' an Old Romantic Comedy Resurrected by Laura Collins-Hughes

"London Wall," a 1931 office comedy by John van Druten, depicts the limited choices available to working women then.    

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Friday, February 21, 2014

Theater Review: Jonatha Brooke's 'My Mother Has 4 Noses' by Laura Collins-Hughes

The singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke, who wrote "My Mother Has 4 Noses," performs it at the Duke on 42nd Street.    

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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Theater Review: Politics, History and Exile Are at Heart of 'Transport' by Laura Collins-Hughes

In its world premiere at Irish Repertory Theater, "Transport" floats along on the strength of a fiddle- and flute-filled score, but lacks emotional depth.    

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Theater Review: In 'Sotto Voce,' a Recluse Falls for a Voice on the Phone by Laura Collins-Hughes

In "Sotto Voce," an 80-year-old recluse is led by a researcher into reliving her first love, who was a passenger aboard an ill-fated ship of Jewish refugees in 1939.    

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Monday, February 10, 2014

Theater Review: 'Actress Fury,' a Dance-Theater Work Set in a Dressing Room by Laura Collins-Hughes

In "Actress Fury," a dance-theater piece at the Bushwick Starr, three performers join in playing a single striving actress.    

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