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"The Addams Family' in New York
Charles Addams without teeth
The macabre incisiveness of The New Yorker's legendary cartoonist Charles Addams is betrayed in this middle-of-the-road, feel-good musical that merely tips its hat to weirdness.
The Addams Family. Lyrics and music by Andrew Lippa; book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice; directed and designed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch. At the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 West 46th St., New York. (212) 307-4100 or (800) 755-4000 or www.ticketmaster.com.
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"Red Hot Patriot': Kathleen Turner as Molly Ivins (3rd review)
News from Planet Texas
Kathleen Turner does a star turn in Red Hot Patriot, a one-woman show about the maverick journalist and political iconoclast Molly Ivins. A more focused script would have served Molly better, but she's welcome back.
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"When the Rain Stops Falling' in New York
Family saga, global calamity
Andrew Bovell, an Australian playwright, and director David Cromer combine with a luminous cast to provide a searing and extraordinary theatrical experience.
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John Logan's "Red': Mark Rothko on Broadway
How art happens
Red, based on two years in the life of the Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko, is a daring play about making art. In 90 minutes it shows us what a monster of self-absorption and narcissistic contempt our art-god can be.
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"Red Hot Patriot': Kathleen Turner as Molly Ivins (2nd review)
A crusader for our times
The impassioned portrayal of Molly Ivins by Kathleen Turner vividly brings to the stage the columnist's sharp political critiques and belly-laugh mockery of those in power.
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"The Lion King' gets the tour treatment
When gasps turn to giggles
In its touring production, The Lion King looks as fresh and gorgeous as ever. But it has undermined its original tone as a human drama.
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"Red Hot Patriot': Kathleen Turner as Molly Ivins (1st review)
Joan of Arc of the Pecos
The late spunky Texas journalist Molly Ivins makes an inspired and inspiring subject for a one-woman stage play. The problem with Red Hot Patriot lies in the two-dimensional nature of journalism, as opposed to drama or literature.
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"Language Rooms' at the Wilma (3rd review)
The fog of the war on terror
In this brilliant dark comedy, the Egyptian-American playwright Yussef El Guindi addresses American paranoia toward outsiders as perhaps only a talented outsider/immigrant artist could do, enhanced by Blanka Zizka's coherent direction and Wilma's dependable, high-quality production supports.
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"Language Rooms' at the Wilma (2nd review)
The questioners and the questioned
Language Rooms takes place in the hermetic world of a private contractor whose job is to interrogate terrorist suspects, but which might be next door. The play invites us to ask Theater of the Absurd questions about ourselves but undercuts its own mise en scène with a drama-within-the-drama about immigrant acculturation that clearly belongs somewhere else.
Language Rooms. By Yussef El Guindi; directed by Blanka Zizka (world premiere). Through April 4, 2010 at Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St. (at Spruce). (215) 546-7824 or www.wilmatheater.org.
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"The Gnädiges Fräulein' by Tennessee Williams
Southern comfort, taken to extremes
In The Gnädiges Fräulein, Tennessee Williams serves up an absurd exaggeration of the kind of Southern myths that Williams himself popularized.
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