Around the corner from where it debuted in 1907, Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance is being revived by the New Yiddish Rep. When the play transferred to Broadway in 1923, the cast and crew were arrested and convicted on charges of obscenity. But the drama, about the Russian brothel proprietor Yankl (Shane Baker) who wants to buy his […]
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There are, admittedly, a few good moments in Declan Donnellan’s Winter’s Tale. The opening scene is done well, with Leontes (Orlando James) manically handling both his best friend, Polixenes (Edward Sayer), and his wife, Hermione (Natalie Radmall-Quirke), roughhousing the one and ostentatiously kissing the other, leaving us with a sense that this king is giddy and unstable. […]
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“Once not long ago a group of musicians came to Israel from Egypt,” read the supertitles. “You probably didn’t hear about it. It wasn’t very important.” Unimportance is key to The Band’s Visit, a charming new musical based on the 2007 film of the same name.
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I don’t envy anyone who follows Giulietta Masina, the moon-eyed clown who played the lead in Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria with such masterful balance of comedy and pathos.
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