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Mamet: Looking backward.

David Mamet's "Race' by PTC (3rd review)

David Mamet is angry. Should that concern us?

Where David Mamet's Oleanna provoked anger across gender lines, his Race attempts to evince terror, frustration and guilt along racial divisions. But Race reveals more about Mamet than about his ostensible subject matter.
Jim Rutter

Jim Rutter

Articles 4 minute read
Schelter: First person singular.

InterAct's "Love Lessons From Abu Ghraib'

But enough about torture. Let's talk about me

Jennifer Schelter went overseas to perform yoga therapy on emotionally shattered Iraqi torture victims. Back home, her love life is a mess. Guess what she'd rather talk about?
Jim Rutter

Jim Rutter

Articles 3 minute read
Novelli, McLenigan: Ten basic ingredients.

McDonagh's "Skull in Connemara,' by the Lantern (1st review)

Welcome to Ireland. Are we having fun yet?

The playwright Martin McDonagh reigns supreme over contemporary Irish theater— so much so that his work has become a cliché. His formula is growing tiresome, and Lantern's production does little to pump new life into it.
Jim Rutter

Jim Rutter

Articles 4 minute read
Pettie (left), Dukakis: Working against time, but who isn't?

"The Milk Train' in New York

Olympia triumphant, Tennessee recumbent

The Milk Train may not be a great play or even a good one. But for Tennessee Williams fans, it has to be seen. And with the astonishing Olympia Dukakis in the central role, this is the production to see.
Toby Zinman

Toby Zinman

Articles 4 minute read
Preston, Lage, Lewis: After 20 years, 'You'll never understand'?

David Mamet's "Race' by Philadelphia Theatre Company (2nd review)

The loudmouths shall inherit the Earth

When neither the facts nor the law are on your side, goes an old lawyer joke, shout loudly and bang on the table. Sounds like David Mamet's kind of law firm.
Jackie Schifalacqua

Jackie Schifalacqua

Articles 4 minute read
Lage, Preston, Thomas: Brilliant but not wise.

David Mamet's "Race' by Philadelphia Theatre Company (1st review)

What Mamet doesn't know about race (or the law)

Americans are overwhelmed by misunderstandings between blacks and whites, not to mention men and women. To soothe this national trauma, we need the healing power of”¦. criminal defense lawyers?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Articles 4 minute read
Louis: Ready to shatter.

"The Glass Menagerie' at Walnut's Studio 3

New light on an old Menagerie

Tennessee Williams's over-exposed Glass Menagerie is a play that cries out for parody. Yet director Bill van Horn and his four magnificent performers have stripped it of all self-indulgent affectation and melodrama.
Jim Rutter

Jim Rutter

Articles 4 minute read
Bedford as Lady Bracknell: You buy it, utterly.

Three "divas' do Ibsen and Wilde in New York

The odd couple: Wilde and Ibsen, perfect together

When would you ever expect to read about Oscar Wilde and Henrik Ibsen in the same review? Better you should ask: Why are you reading this review when you could be hopping on a train to New York to catch three lionesses of the English-speaking stage, one of them a man?

Carol Rocamora

Articles 7 minute read
Miranda: The struggle is familiar.

"In the Heights' on tour

Sidewalks of New York, salsa-style

In the Heights is an innovative show based in the traditions of musical theater— sort of case of pouring new Hispanic wine into old Jewish, Italian or Irish bottles. Once poor immigrants try to improve their lives in New York City, with an upbeat end.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 3 minute read
Gonglewski, Hissom: Beneath that hulking exterior, a woman?

"Moon for the Misbegotten' at the Arden (2nd review)

Our deepest, darkest secrets

Grace Gonglewski brings a grounded, split-second nuance to O'Neill's Irish Amazon Josie Hogan. But O'Neill's theme— that people aren't who they seem to be— is hardly a stunning insight in the age of Facebook.
Alaina Johns

Alaina Johns

Articles 3 minute read