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'Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill' in NYC
Lady Day returns to 15th and Bainbridge
The human spirit, expressed through song, is an ultimate triumph over personal tragedy. Thanks to the generosity and compassion of Audra McDonald's brilliant voice, Billie Holiday sings on.
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Deb Margolin's '8 Stops' at SEI Innovation Studio
How long does it take to change a life?
Deb Margolin asks us to consider big questions. How much pain can we stand in our own lives, and how do we raise another human being — whether we have a lifetime to do it, or maybe just eight stops on a subway train?
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Peter Brook's 'Suit' and Athold Fugard's 'Train Driver'
Apartheid's end
Two different productions look at the effect of apartheid on South Africans, black and white.
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Michael Pennington's Lear in Brooklyn
An unforgettable Lear and an exemplary life in the theater
Michael Pennington’s elegant, deeply felt Lear — Shakespeare’s most challenging tragic role — is a study in fallibility, vulnerability, and the dignity of a man in defeat.
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'Bullets over Broadway: The Musical'
A crossfire of fun and musical mayhem
Who needs the angst that newer musicals have been offering these days? Bullets over Broadway: The Musical provides all the ammunition required for an evening of nostalgic pleasure.
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Will Eno’s ‘The Realistic Joneses’ in New York
The playwright who cloned Edward Albee
Nothing much happens in Will Eno’s engaging but enigmatic The Realistic Joneses. So what, then, is this new young playwright trying to say? Maybe something about use — or nonuse — of language.
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InterAct’s 'Down Past Passyunk' at the Adrienne
Local flavor
The local story of the Geno's "English only" controversy gets sold short in this uninspired fictionalization.
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Quince Productions’ 'Three Days of Rain'
Theater loves its dysfunctional families, but I don’t
I had the rare experience of enjoying a remarkable rendering of a play I’d otherwise dismiss scornfully.
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The future of professional theater criticism: An international view
Journalist critics grab their bullhorns and take theater to the streets. What will be the effect on theater when all that shouting dwindles to a whisper?
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'Red Velvet' and 'Raisin in the Sun'
Black in a white world
From a London theater in the 1830s to a Chicago tenement in the 1950s, a black man’s struggle in a white man’s world is being eloquently portrayed on the New York stages this season.
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