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Pig Iron's "Pay Up' at the FringeArts Festival (2nd review)
Pay Up again (for a show you've seen before)
Pig Iron's hilarious/heartbreaking exploration of how money affects us hasn't changed much since 2005. That's because, director Dan Rothenberg insists, things haven't changed much since then. I beg to disagree.
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Jo StrÓ¸mgren Kompani's "The Society' at FringeArts
Beyond Monty Python
In barely an hour, director/choreographer Jo StrÓ¸mgren and his three gifted dancer/actors provide the most lucid, insightful— and funniest— overview of isolationism and global conflict that you're likely to find today.
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Tennessee Williams's "Two Character Play'
A great playwright's dismaying final chapter
The Two Character Play is an agonizing glimpse into the darkness of Tennessee Williams's soul in decline. And yet I can't get the image of the playwright's smiling face out of my mind.
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Pig Iron's "Pay Up' at the FringeArts Festival (1st review)
The uses and abuses of money, in one bizarre hour
The trouble with most “immersive theater” is that you remember the form rather than the content. Pig Iron's Pay Up, by contrast, is a razor-sharp, insightful investigation of how humans (and even animals) interact when it comes to money.
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A man's guide to the 2013 Fringe Arts Festival
No music or feelings, please: A man's guide to the Fringe Arts Festival
Men may dominate the theater world, but women dominate the audience. So how can a male theatergoer enjoy this month's Fringe Festival? By choosing carefully and relying on the expert guidance of my weightlifting teammates and drinking buddies.
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Mauckingbird's "Importance of Being Earnest'
Oscar Wilde gets the ‘post-gay' treatment
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is a Victorian comedy about men who lead double lives. The Mauckingbird Theatre Company's “post-gay” production overlooks Wilde's motivation for raising such a theme in the first place.
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'The Trojan Women' in 21st-Century Greece
Calling Donald Rumsfeld, or: What war means
With The Trojan Women, Euripides may have written the most powerful anti-war play ever. It has lost none of its relevance: In the fine recent production in Athens, the parallels to the siege Greece is under today from predatory lenders were not far under the surface.
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Shakespeare Festival's "Two Noble Kinsmen'
The Bard's last gasp
Shakespeare's last play is rarely performed, and for good reason: The Bard was paying his dues and departing with a whimper when he wrote The Two Noble Kinsmen. Still, it's worth seeing, if only for its clues to the homosexuality of Shakespeare's patron, King James I.
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McCraney's "Choir Boy' in New York
Coming of age by turning the other cheek
Here's something different: A gay coming-of-age play that reacts to homophobia not with rage but with resilience, humor and song.
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"Natasha, Pierre': A musical "War and Peace'
Heeeere's Napoleon! Or: Why didn't Tolstoy think of this?
A musical War and Peace with a three-course Russian dinner in a carnival tent? This kitschy hybrid of dinner theater, story-telling and campy night club act is the latest example of a new trend: adapting the classics for film and stage, with each production trying to outdo each other in ingenuity, artistic excess and chutzpah.
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