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"Laramie Project Cycle' in Brooklyn
The dark side of ‘Our Town'
The courageous Tectonic Theatre Project has dedicated more than a decade of its artistic life to a single tragedy: the brutal murder of a gay college student in Wyoming in 1998. It's a demonstration of theater at its best, but it's also a reminder of theater's limitations.
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6 minute read
Theatre Exile's 'The North Plan'
When paranoids are realists
Who are our “enemies”? Who gets to decide? You could listen to diatribes on MSNBC or Fox News about these issues, or you could see this seriously funny, serious show.
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4 minute read
Mask & Wig Club's "Beautopia'
124 years old, and still silly
Mask and Wig Club's Beautopia is set in a 25th-Century dictatorship, where citizens are ranked by physical appearance. Does this plot line sound familiar?
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3 minute read
MacMillan's "Lungs' at Luna Theater
The parenthood trap, or: Just do it
Duncan MacMillan's Lungs portrays a young couple who spend maybe a little too much time analyzing whether or not to have children.
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4 minute read
Schulner's "Infinite Ache' at Theatre Horizon
It's later than you think
David Schulner's An Infinite Ache speeds us through the lives of a man and woman from their first date to their old age in 90 minutes.
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2 minute read
"The Winter's Tale' at People's Light
A rare Shakespearean turkey
The Winter's Tale is surely one of Shakespeare's messiest and least satisfying scripts, notwithstanding People's Light's energetic efforts to distract our attention from its failings.
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3 minute read
Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband' at the Walnut (2nd review)
Oscar Wilde makes his case
Some critics consider Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband a lightweight play. On the contrary, it's a deceptively eloquent plea for individual expression in the face of Victorian conformity.
An Ideal Husband. By Oscar Wilde; Malcolm Black directed. Through March 3, 2013 at the Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St. (215) 574-3550 or www.walnutstreettheatre.org.
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5 minute read
"Water By the Spoonful' in New York
Forgiveness and redemption in a virtual world
Tired of cynical plays about dysfunctional families? The beautiful Water By The Spoonful offers a refreshing change of pace: a “family” of lonely humans connecting and uplifting each other in cyberspace.
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4 minute read
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McDonagh's "Beauty Queen of Leenane' at the Lantern (2nd review)
Learning to appreciate Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh is best known for the escalating violence of his dramas. So I arrived at a new appreciation for the intimacy and sad sweetness of this domestic tale, his first work.
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2 minute read
Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband' at the Walnut (1st review)
Oscar Wilde gets serious
At the fringes, Oscar Wilde's characters in An Ideal Husband convey a spritely delight in mocking the staid practices of a moralistic society. But Wilde keeps dragging them into a ludicrous plot that he wants us to take seriously.
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4 minute read