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I should have such a problem all the time: how to review a show that is just about perfect.
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Funny, eye opening, and sometimes maddening in its acknowledgement of how our society worships celebrities.
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And now, “live in consort,” the six wives of Henry VIII: “divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.”
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Well, of course I know they were clapping for the cast and not the characters, but there was something creepy about hundreds of people—some of…
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CATS goes camp!
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There’s magic and mystery as wonderfully costumed characters come alive to dance, sing, cavort, wrestle, draw swords, threaten violence, and show mercy
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Two one act plays from playwright Brian Friel, as he takes on some of Anton Chekov’s work
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Introducing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as “a thinking play,” Tennessee Williams wrote to his audiences: “I want to go on talking to you…
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Leave it to Inis Nua, the theater company whose name means “New Island” and is dedicated to producing plays from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.…
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Toby Zinman looks at three plays now New York stages.
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How would knowing exactly what another person is feeling change your relationship, for better or for worse?
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An engaging conversation about how societal constructs and systems can affect our relationships
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In the political news in the past few years, the concern has been not with the lifespan of facts, but the lifespan of lies
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