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Jen Childs in "Why I'm Scared of Dance'
Oh, for the life of a would-be dancer
In this original and often charming one-woman autobiographical tour, the multi-talented comedienne Jen Childs reflects on her life as an aspiring dancer who's a tad too short and clunky for the Kirov or A Chorus Line.
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3 minute read
Blaming the critics: "Jekyll and Hyde' in Media
Meltdown in Media
I didn't intend to write about the Media Theatre's Jekyll and Hyde, but Jesse Cline left me no choice. This director's greatest gift, it seems, is his talent for turning potential friends into enemies.
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4 minute read
"Macbeth' at the Wilma (3rd review)
A human monster, rendered natural
The remarkable strength of this Wilma production is its clarity of language and action, releasing the power of Macbeth through means that are devoid of histrionics. The clarity also allows us to revisit and better understand the other characters who co-habit the stage with Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
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6 minute read
"Macbeth at the Wilma (2nd review)
The play's the thing— or is it the set?
I'm all for aggressive staging of Shakespeare, and certainly Blanka Zizka's has its virtues. But staging should serve rather than distract from the text, which in Macbeth particularly is crucial to establishing atmosphere.
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8 minute read
“Macbeth” at the Wilma (1st review)
A tyrant for all seasons
The Wilma Theater's new Macbeth is concerned more with the struggle of an oppressed people fighting to overthrow tyranny than it is with the title character and his wife. Shakespeare would approve.
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3 minute read
Lee Hall's 'Pitmen Painters' on Broadway (1st review)
When miners become artists
Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters, a play about English miners who learn to paint, contains enough ideas—political and aesthetic—and enough charm to please any crowd, although the second act becomes less charming and more preachy.
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4 minute read
Hollinger’s “Ghost-Writer” at the Arden (2nd review)
Three mysteries in one
Ghost-Writer concerns the mysterious process of literary creation. That's quite a monumental task, but Michael Hollinger handles it so well that the drama flows with energy and wit.
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4 minute read
Collective's "The Duchess of Malfi'
A distant mirror
Four centuries after the English overthrew their absolute monarchy, this gripping portrayal of amorality and deceit among the governing classes begs the question of what we've gained by waiting our turn at the ballot box.
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2 minute read
EgoPo's "Marat/ Sade' (4th review)
Crumbling walls, crumbling authority
Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, the merits of using the Rotunda Sanctuary for Marat/ Sade outweighed its auditory problems: This decaying building proved marvelously effective as an incarnation of a 17th-Century institution and as metaphor for crumbling authority.
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3 minute read
"Madwoman of Chaillot' (2nd review)
The wrong box for Giraudoux
Was The Madwoman of Chaillot a swipe at France's Nazi occupiers? Only in retrospect. Let's lay this myth to rest and consider the play's other virtues.
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3 minute read