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'If/Then' on Broadway
Chances and choices
In If/Then, after two acts and 22 songs, Idina Menzel’s character (both of them) realizes that life just keeps happening: a cascade of choices and chances, paths pursued and paths ignored. You can’t ever know what will happen next.
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'Book of Mormon' at the Forrest (fourth review)
The power of theater compels you . . .
F-bombs and crude jokes and satire, oh my! The Book of Mormon made my mother laugh and want to see other shows she normally wouldn’t. Theater is powerful stuff.
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Fringe Festival: 1812 Productions’ ‘Intimate Exchanges’
Exploring the consequences of choice
Intimate Exchanges is a comedy of ambitious conceptualization and modest execution that is reminiscent of these quiet but literate British sitcoms that frequently show up on PBS.
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Fringe Festival: New Paradise Laboratories’ ‘The Adults’
A masterwork of unease
New Paradise Laboratories’ Fringe show, The Adults, is a play for those who like their drunken pratfalls freighted with metaphysical anxiety.
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Fringe Festival: ‘99 Breakups’ and ‘Theorem’
Ensemble energy sparks FringeArts
Two Fringe performances in nontraditional venues showcase the power of talented ensembles.
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Fringe Festival: Pig Iron’s ‘99 Breakups’ (second review)
Choreographing an emotional minefield
People behave in particular ways in a museum; everything is hushed — but not when Pig Iron sets its performance inside one.
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Fringe Festival: Pig Iron’s ‘99 Breakups’
Painful Breakups
None of the moments in 99 Breakups was connected with any other, and all lacked subtext, subtlety, or any larger meaning.
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Fringe Festival: 'White Rabbit Red Rabbit' and 'Rhinoceros'
The power of the playwright’s voice
Given the horrific reports coming out of the Middle East today, the voices of Soleimanpour and Ionesco ring out loud and clear, warning us of the perils of nonconformity in the face of tyranny.
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‘Book of Mormon’ at the Forrest (third review)
Is nothing sacred?
What Joshua taught me is to look at The Book of Mormon as a phenomenon of popular culture — an American one, specifically, in which nothing is considered sacred, and any aspect of the human condition is fair game for satire.
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Gokash production of 'Death of a Salesman'
Willy Loman, risen from the dead
The Gokash production of Death of a Salesman is the first African-American staging of the Arthur Miller classic in Philadelphia. We talk to Kash Goins, head of Gokash, who stars as Willy Loman.
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