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Further thoughts on immersive theater
Audience participation? Let’s call it something else.
Carol Rocamora might have come across as a curmudgeon who rejects all immersive theater. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
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'Beautiful Boy' at the Walnut
A male Alice in a Catholic Wonderland
Under the skillful direction of David Stradley, Eric Conger’s riveting tragicomedy about a young man’s search for his birth mother becomes a memorable experience.
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Nina Raine’s ‘Tribes’ by PTC (3rd review)
Struggling to be heard
An increasing number of plays portray the problems of minority groups. Tribes, about the hearing-impaired, achieves a rare universality. On the surface, it’s about deafness; at a deeper level, it’s about anyone who’s ever struggled to be heard.
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Nina Raine’s ‘Tribes’ by PTC (2nd review)
Empathy for the deaf
With one exception, everyone involved with Nina Raine’s Tribes knows about deafness, but they don’t know deafness. That’s the big stumbling block for any work on this subject aimed at a hearing audience.
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An immersive experience or audience abuse?
Is there such a thing as audience abuse? More and more these days, you run that risk when you go to the theater. The question is: Is it worth it? And why do we tolerate it?
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'The Tightrope' by Simon Brook
A glimpse into Peter Brook's creative process
The legendary Peter Brook is once again working his theatrical wonders — this time in a filmed master class called The Tightrope, directed with precision and reverence by his son, Simon.
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'Stop Hitting Yourself' at Lincoln Center Theater
Stop Hitting Yourself is an energetic, often entertaining attempt with a meaningful message. But these noble ends don’t justify some of their rough artistic means.
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Lantern Theater’s 'Julius Caesar' (1st review)
A Japanese shogun
The Lantern Theater's production of Julius Caesar set the action in feudal Japan, which, if not a great idea, at least wasn't a bad idea.
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‘True West’ at Theatre Exile (second review)
Lost in the boonies
Some call this a masterpiece by America’s greatest living playwright. Others find it irritating and have walked out. Both are appropriate reactions to a play that’s about split personalities.
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‘Other Desert Cities’ at the Walnut
Cold-blooded conservatives vs. warmhearted liberals
Somewhere west of Generation Gap, a family modeled after Ronald Reagan’s wages bitter ideological warfare. Too bad the characters here are mostly caricatures.
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