Posts Tagged ‘bob verini’
HARAM IRAN: 0% Bitter
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Human rights issues in Iran deserve a great play to be written about them, and Michael Matthews deserves a great play to direct, one at the level of his talents. [...]
FORGIVENESS: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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The human heart’s capacity to get past the atrocious sins of others in order to grant forgiveness is bracingly dramatized in stage and TV scribe David Schulner’s world premiere, packing [...]
WIREHEAD: 50% Bitter
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Audience members more fond than I am of the sci-fi, futuristic fantasy genre may take to Wirehead more than I did. One thing at least is undeniable. Echo Theater [...]
THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES: 70% Sweet – UPDATED
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All right, given this impressive pedigree, what’s my beef? Well, beyond the play’s passé style, I have trouble with the workmanlike use of the symbolic roses that inspire the title [...]
NORTH ATLANTIC: 86% Sweet – UPDATED
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With an ensemble that includes such company stalwarts as Kate Valk, Ari Fliakos and Scott Shepherd, along with Oscar winner Frances McDormand, who was in the delightful 2002 Wooster Group [...]
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES: 89% Sweet – UPDATED
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The script has an unending flow of verbal and physical high jinks but too many sitcom-quality one-liners and a lazy reliance on popular culture for easy laughs. There also is [...]
WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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Durang is getting a lot off his chest, and off ours. The laughter he generates is from nonsense about nonsense, unnervingly true and cathartic, and beautifully performed.
Steven Leigh [...]
WHISPER HOUSE: 83% Sweet – UPDATED
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Composer Duncan Sheik’s voice, which entered the world of stage tuners with a roar in 2004’s “Spring Awakening,” is reduced to a whisper in “Whisper House,” the somnolent chamber musical [...]
CAMELOT: 73% Sweet – UPDATED
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In 1960 two legendary tuners bowed in Gotham exactly seven months apart: two-planks-and-a-passion romance “The Fantasticks” (May 3) and lavish spectacle “Camelot” (Dec. 3). Fifty years later at the Pasadena [...]
ORDINARY DAYS: 83% Sweet – UPDATED
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The lesson: Simple joys have a way of secretly expanding. If you go into “Ordinary Days” with reasonable expectations, you’ll likely come out feeling as if you’ve just had an [...]
