Posts Tagged ‘curtain up’
MARY POPPINS: 100% Sweet
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Eyre’s direction is spot-on and he has managed to hold onto some of the stories grit. The dances by Bourne are brilliant. The magical set and set pieces (statues that [...]
EQUIVOCATION: 100% Sweet
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Bottom Line: An original and often witty play that says less than it wants to say in more words than it needs to use.
Jay Reiner – Hollywood Reporter
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Cain should be [...]
“Come Back, Little Horny”: 100% Bittersweet
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Director Martha Demson’s character-driven production artfully emphasizes the subtext underlying the family’s brittle relationship. Not a line is spoken that doesn’t seep with layers of corrosive back story. Although the [...]
“Dirty Dancing”: 67% Sweet
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We’re all here to see Baby come into her own, but it sure takes a while. The producers could easily cut 20 minutes off the evening without losing the heart [...]
“Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo”: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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An ebullient synthesizer of world data, Joseph is not just alert to the fevered geopolitical madness surrounding us, he’s also endlessly inventive in finding bold theatrical metaphors to depict the [...]
“Courting Vampires”: 50% Bittersweet – UPDATE
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Unfortunately, the whole doesn’t end up equaling the sum of its parts, leaving the audience with numerous great moments that don’t fuse into a powerful or coherent story.
Mayank Keshaviah – [...]
