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Now It Came to Pass
“I’m speaking English?” asks Loyfer (Shane Baker) at the opening of The Megile of Itzik Manger. Then, looking at an elderly member of the audience, he says, I’m guessing, “From now on—in Yiddish,” for the supertitles had not yet started. Wearing a purple pinstripe suit and a top hat, and with the ease and charisma […]
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Barrie’s Women
May 13, 2013
If only there were ten more theaters like the Pearl, New York would be in great shape. Their most recent production, This Side of Neverland, combines two J.M. Barrie one-acts, “Rosalind” and “The Twelve Pound Look.” Barrie was one of those authors, like Maurice Sendak, who understood that childhood is far more complicated and melancholy […]
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Et cetera
May 9, 2013
Neil LaBute has always struck me as occasionally nastily observant but mostly just plain nasty, though his play Some Girl(s), currently running at the Chain Theatre, suffers more from endless tedium than anything else; “predictably shocking” is an oxymoron, and once you figure out what Mr. LaBute is up to, he loses about ninety percent […]
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Sittin’ in the Railway Station, Got a Ticket for My Destination
April 29, 2013
The emotions are easy and the pleasures simple in Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful—but they are emotions and pleasure nonetheless. Mrs. Carrie Watts (Cicely Tyson), an elderly woman who seems to feel “Death [standing] in the doorway, clipping his nails,” as Ken Cosgrove would put it, desires to leave the house of her docile […]
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Live Stream the 2013 Tony Award Nominations
April 29, 2013
The 2013 Tony Award Nominations, hosted by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sutton Foster, will be broadcast Tuesday, April 30th, at 8:30 a.m. EST. Click on the link below to stream it live.
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Tell Us About the Fruit of Thy Womb
April 28, 2013
There is enough in Colm Tóibín’s novella and subsequent play The Testament of Mary to set a biblical literalist’s head spinning. It is the story of Mary (Fiona Shaw), the mother of Christ, which she relates after her son’s death. She has abandoned Judaism and only attends pagan temples, she refers to the apostles as […]
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May 15, 2013
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