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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

'About Love' Review: Turgenev With Songs and Heartbreak by Maya Phillips

Despite charming performances, a Culture Project production works too hard bringing a delicate novella to the stage.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2020

'Incantata' Review: An Elegy in Words, Video and Potatoes by Maya Phillips

A solo stage adaptation of Paul Muldoon's poem considers whether making art can offer solace in the wake of grief.

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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Review: Name-dropping Harlem in 'Blues for an Alabama Sky' by Maya Phillips

The neighborhood is referrred to constantly, insistently, but doesn't come to life in Pearl Cleage's play about a nightclub singer from the 1930s.

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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

'Where We Stand' Review: Gifts are Given, but at What Cost? by Maya Phillips

Donnetta Lavinia Grays is winningly uninhibited in her fable-like solo show about a community seduced by a mysterious benefactor.

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Friday, February 7, 2020

Review: Blood Runs Too Thick in 'Doctors Jane and Alexander' by Maya Phillips

Edward Einhorn's playful play takes on a lot: his scientist grandfather, his aging mother and his own doubts about putting their lives onstage.

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Monday, November 25, 2019

Review: A 'Crucible' for the Modern Mob by Maya Phillips

Eric Tucker updates the allegorical play about the Salem witch trials, directly implicating the audience in its examination of mass hysteria.

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Thursday, November 14, 2019

'Black History Museum' Review: Learn. Laugh. Suffer. Move Along. by Maya Phillips

An immersive play crossed with an art installation offers sharp angles on race and white supremacy, but is dampened by didactism.

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Thursday, October 24, 2019

'When It Happens to You' Review: A Daughter's Rape, a Mother's Anguish by Maya Phillips

Tawni O'Dell set herself a bracing challenge: Writing and reliving her family's trauma onstage. But it's more than the novelist can pull off.

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Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Review: Stuck in Maine in 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' by Maya Phillips

Friends and family about to be left behind when a young man goes to college reckon with a world of narrow choices in Chad Beckim's play.

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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Review: 'Katsura Sunshine's Rakugo' Offers Stand-Up Comedy Without the Standing by Maya Phillips

Mr. Sunshine is one of the rare Westerners to become a master of the centuries-old Japanese comic storytelling form.

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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

'Mothers' Review: Mommy and Me and the Apocalypse by Maya Phillips

A barbed comedy takes a grim turn when friends find themselves tested over how far they'll go to defend their choices and protect their children.

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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Review: Scripture With the Lunch Lady in 'Surely Goodness' by Maya Phillips

Chisa Hutchinson's earnest morality play spends time with a Newark schoolboy and the brusque cafeteria worker he befriends.

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Monday, September 10, 2018

Review: A Beatboxer Climbs Up and Out in 'The Unwritten Law' by Maya Phillips

In this stage memoir, Chesney Show struggles to balance a powerful personal story with historical heft.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Review: In 'ms. estrada,' Campus Feminists Say No to Sex, Yes to Hip-Hop by Maya Phillips

This "Lysistrata" update at the Flea Theater is consistently lively, but its comic aims are scattershot.

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Review: A Bad Romance with Operatic Overtones in 'Dido of Idaho' by Maya Phillips

This retelling of the ancient Greek queen's plight, set in the modern Midwest, is hilarious until it takes a grisly turn.

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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Review: A Runaway Slave Rides West in 'Cross That River' by Maya Phillips

The show features jazz, blues and country music from Allan Harris, who also plays the title character.

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Thursday, August 3, 2017

Review: Celebrating a 'Golden Land' With a Lot of Song and a Little Mugging by Maya Phillips

The National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene show is at once a rapid-fire revue and a textbook chronology of Jewish history in New York.

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Monday, June 26, 2017

Review: A Father Consumed by Grief in 'My Eyes Went Dark' by Maya Phillips

A man who lost his family in a plane crash funnels his grief and despair into a quest for revenge.

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