Pleasant to watch and quite informative, but little seems at stake
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THE BED SHOW (Unattended Baggage): 60-second review
A delightfully immersive peek into “bed culture”
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FOOL FOR LOVE (EgoPo): Secrets, raw passion, and danger
Sam Shepard can set up a world like nobody else
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BIRDS OF PREY (dir. Cathy Yan): Film review
What is it about the world of Batman that enchants me so?
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DESCRIBE THE NIGHT (Wilma): Put on your thinking caps
Put on your thinking cap if you’re thinking of going to see DESCRIBE THE NIGHT
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KING LEAR (Bristol Riverside): Mommy issues
We start to experience the world as Lear might, slowly losing their sense of reality
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[nyc] MEDEA (BAM): Euripides should sue
British auteur-director Simon Stone has rewritten the ancient Greek tragedy, Medea, to fit the contours of the contemporary world
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A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (Walnut Street): Dropping a stream of bon mots from the sofa
How wonderful that we have Oscar Wilde’s works and can go and see his plays
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MAN OF GOD (InterAct): Worthy of praise
Anna Moench’s new, short, fascinating play is not to be missed.
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Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films: A review
Rejoice in what has become my favorite Oscar tradition.
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Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films: A review
Animated stories told with focused precision
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A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (Walnut Street): 60-second review
A play of little importance
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MY GENERAL TUBMAN (Arden): Ancestors calling
Time travel as spiritual reality and a throbbing moral obligation
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THE GENTLEMEN (dir. Guy Ritchie): Film review
Ritchie is celebrating a welcome return to form, complete with bullets, Brits, and enough creative uses of the word “cunt” to make your grandmother shake her head in shame
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THURGOOD (Walnut Street): A supreme life
Johnnie Hobbs Jr. stars in a biographical play about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
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THE VERTICAL HOUR (Lantern): Still means something
David Hare has the uncanny knack of being able to talk out of both sides of his mouth.
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CHESS: THE MUSICAL (11th Hour): Cold War on the board
The precision and sense of drama makes you almost forget this is a concert and not a fully staged production.
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CATS (dir. Tom Hooper): A sin against theater, film, cats, and humanity
Maybe one day I’ll be able to scrape its rancid essence from my memory entirely.
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THE SNOW QUEEN (Arden Children’s Theatre): Not a sugar-coated fairy tale
“In the realm of the unknown, kids and adults have pretty much the same needs: courage, resilience, protection.”
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Natalia Kazaryan at the APS: Champion pianist champions undervalued composers
The three gems sound quite modern more than 100 years after they were written.
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