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Graham's "Any Given Monday' by Theatre Exile (2nd review)
What's a decent husband to do?
Overlook the logical lapses in Any Given Monday. Bruce Graham has delivered a major moral message about how a man must behave to hold his marriage together in an age filled with politically correct lies.
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Campbell's "The Pride,' off-Broadway
Gay anguish, then and now
Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride is a deeply engrossing play contrasting the closeted gay world of 1958 to the wide-open scene of today. It's enlivened by four fine actors but marred by excessive speechifying.
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"Coupla White Chicks' by New City Stage (1st review)
The way we were
Thirty years after this flimsy suburban comedy opened with Susan Sarandon and Eileen Brennan, A Coupla White Chicks still possesses some value— not for any lasting insight into the feminine psyche or gender relations, but as a reminder of how our perceptions have evolved in 30 years.
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Graham's "Any Given Monday' by Theatre Exile (1st review)
The way of the wimp
Bruce Graham purports to create an edgy satire of modern mores, in which an idealistic teacher benefits from the murder of his romantic rival. But Graham is just too soft around the edges. Instead of pushing the envelope of comedy, he stays carefully within its existing borders.
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McNally's "Golden Age' by PTC (3rd review)
McNally's triumph about a triumph
From its first moments, Terrence McNally's Golden Age liberates itself from the fetters of the stage and soars into the magical realm that only theater can make possible.
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Villanova Theatre's modernized "Medea'
Medea meets Oprah
You wouldn't want Medea for a nanny, but she's always welcome on the boards if you know how to treat her. But the current Villanova production never does find a coherent way to project Euripides's most famous drama onto a modern stage, and the result is an Oprahfied heroine with a knife in her waistband.
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McNally's "Golden Age' by PTC (2nd review)
The eternal Callas, somewhere offstage
Golden Age may be set in 1835, but it's actually Terrence McNally's latest paean to the obsession of his life, Maria Callas. Music lovers will relish hearing about vocal techniques, public tastes, jealousies and gossip about other singers and composers, but it goes on too long.
Golden Age. By Terrence McNally; directed by Austin Pendleton. Philadelphia Theatre Co., production through February 14, 2010 at Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St. (at Lombard). (215) 985-0420 or www.philadelphiatheatrecompany.org.
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"Time Stands Still' in New York
Global terror, once over lightly
The playwright Donald Margulies likes to flirt with serious social issues. His trouble is, as Time Stands Still reminds us, that he isn't serious about any of it.
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Sam Shepard's "Ages of the Moon' in New York
A coupla white dudes sitting around talking
Ages of the Moon finds Sam Shepard in a meditative mood, ruminating on life, hilariously and painfully. His reunion of two aging Western geezers is classic American dramatic metaphor— a long day's journey into night if ever was one.
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McNally's "Golden Age' by PTC (1st review)
A very long night at the opera
In the backstage bickering of singers and composer during the opening night of Bellini's I Puritani, Terrence McNally has the raw materials for an intriguing drama. Unfortunately, McNally's Golden Age consists of more than three interminable hours of operatic name-dropping and hackneyed expository dialogue.
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