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Beckett's "Endgame' by EgoPo (3rd review)
Beckett's vision, expanded
Purists object to setting a European work like Endgame in a cluttered South Jersey basement. But EgoPo's idiosyncratic interpretation brings a fresh vision to Beckett's classic: It's no longer about post-nuclear holocaust but foremost a personal play of family relationships gone to rot but still clinging.

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Beckett's "Endgame' by EgoPo (2nd review)
Beckett in South Jersey
EgoPo's latest Beckett production, Endgame, succeeds despite itself, largely due to Ed Swidey's stylized but finely judged performance as Hamm, the play's principal. Director Lane Savadove has given the play an incongruous South Jersey setting, but the text, thank goodness, speaks for itself, and Swidey makes sure that its poetry gets through.

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Sport, theater and Lauren Feldman's "Grace'
Climb every mountain
Can't mix sport and theater? The Greeks did it, and so does Lauren Feldman's compelling Grace, in which a troubled young woman literally mountain-climbs her way out of depression before our eyes.

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Beckett's "Endgame' by EgoPo (1st review)
Not quite the end
Samuel Beckett's Endgame is an enduring play that's been turned on end in a new production by EgoPo. Director Lane Savadove's innovations add new dimensions to a classic work. They also subtract.
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"Rabbit Hole' at the Arden
Grief lessons
In David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole, a decent husband and wife face the indecent horror of the loss of a child and try to deal with a grief that has left them in separate and opposed universes. Jim Christy's thoughtful production respects the play's bleak integrity and its message of chastened hope.

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Rebeck's "The Understudy' in New York
Actors without audiences
As its title suggests, Theresa Rebeck's pointy comedy The Understudy concerns unappreciated people. Rarely is a comedy this entertaining also so human.

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Fugard's "Coming Home' at the Wilma
Oupa's gift (and the Wilma's, too)
As her dreams collapse around her, a high-spirited South African woman discovers an unexpected silver lining. In this riveting and lyrical production, the Wilma Theater continues its long-standing role as an incubator for Athol Fugard's continuing growth in the post-apartheid era.

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Theatre Exile's "Hunter Gatherers'
Communing with your inner caveman
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's Hunter Gatherers is the only play I know that takes its view of human nature from the relatively new science of evolutionary psychology. But no one could call Nachtrieb's work sexist— it's too damn funny.

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"Finian's Rainbow' on Broadway
Something sort of grandish
Finian's Rainbow, now in gorgeous revival on Broadway, possesses all the old-fashioned charm that can make musical theater such a pleasure.

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Luna Theater's "Slasher'
The sluttiest girls die first
Slasher, Allison Moore's feminist satire of horror films, is the most deliciously humorous spoof I've seen in some time. But Moore never quite clarifies her views on the potential exploitation of actresses in these films.

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