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"The Winter's Tale' at People's Light
A rare Shakespearean turkey
The Winter's Tale is surely one of Shakespeare's messiest and least satisfying scripts, notwithstanding People's Light's energetic efforts to distract our attention from its failings.
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Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband' at the Walnut (2nd review)
Oscar Wilde makes his case
Some critics consider Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband a lightweight play. On the contrary, it's a deceptively eloquent plea for individual expression in the face of Victorian conformity.
An Ideal Husband. By Oscar Wilde; Malcolm Black directed. Through March 3, 2013 at the Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St. (215) 574-3550 or www.walnutstreettheatre.org.
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"Water By the Spoonful' in New York
Forgiveness and redemption in a virtual world
Tired of cynical plays about dysfunctional families? The beautiful Water By The Spoonful offers a refreshing change of pace: a “family” of lonely humans connecting and uplifting each other in cyberspace.
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McDonagh's "Beauty Queen of Leenane' at the Lantern (2nd review)
Learning to appreciate Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh is best known for the escalating violence of his dramas. So I arrived at a new appreciation for the intimacy and sad sweetness of this domestic tale, his first work.
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Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband' at the Walnut (1st review)
Oscar Wilde gets serious
At the fringes, Oscar Wilde's characters in An Ideal Husband convey a spritely delight in mocking the staid practices of a moralistic society. But Wilde keeps dragging them into a ludicrous plot that he wants us to take seriously.
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Beckett's "Endgame' at the Arden (1st review)
Beckett, with a smidgen of hope
Kevin Depinet's set prompts a fresh look at a Beckett classic. It's a specific illustration of the end of a world as we knew it; but it's not quite the end of civilization, as Endgame has been interpreted in the past.
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New York's Under the Radar festival
The god of overcoming obstacles finds refuge in Manhattan
Two troupes of “outsiders”— one from Australia, the other from Belarus— have forced themselves to center stage by dint of their sheer passion, courage and tenacity.
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McDonagh's "Beauty Queen of Leenane' at the Lantern (1st review)
Ireland's answer to Where's Poppa?
What is it about modern Ireland that produces so many playwrights intent on cutting through that charming Gaelic sentimentality to expose the human brutality underneath?
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"Catch Me If You Can' on national tour
Calling Professor Harold Hill
Some musicals about con men succeed (think The Music Man); others, like this one, fail— because complex scams aren't easily explained in songs competing with a blaring orchestra.
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Inge's "Picnic,' revived in New York
A woman's place in Eisenhower's America
Behind William Inge's sunny, gentle slice of small-town Americana from 1953 lies another, quite sobering story. A woman's life in that sweet little Kansas town was rigid and restrictive, to say the least.
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