The set, designed by Riccardo Hernandez, is extraordinary. Snow falls throughout, first in large heaps and then intermittently, its color reflected in the large white arches and pale furniture; the actors, dwarfed by their monochromatic surroundings, bring a little relief with their colorful costumes. But the main effect—a sheet of white peppered with spots of […]
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Because it is the Jimmy Buffett jukebox musical, Escape to Margaritaville, I suspect, will never get the praise and esteem it deserves. What a shame. This is a delightful two and a half hours, a paean to cargo shorts and day drinking that avoids nearly all the pitfalls of the genre. While Mamma Mia!, for example, practically […]
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Jordan Harrison’s new play The Amateurs is about the invention of the subject, the moment when humans began to conceive of themselves in terms of “I.” Mr. Harrison locates this change during the Middle Ages, when the plague reinvented our relationship to death.
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