Posts Tagged ‘jana j. monji’
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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A Noise Within’s “Much Ado About Nothing” is nothing but well done and well-deserving of praise. See it before it closes on 21 May 2010. The production is family-friendly and [...]
OEDIPUS EL REY: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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Alfaro spins much of this in a colloquial lexicon that makes it all the more forceful. Some of his passages — Tiresias’ musings on what a father really is, after [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
PALESTINE, NEW MEXICO: 38% Bitter – UPDATED
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This curious development leads to a fantasy sequence featuring, among other harebrained shenanigans, a golem in the shape of a cactus. The high jinks have a fatuous air that aims [...]
PO BOY TANGO: 33% Bitter
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Toward the end, a fierce argument concerning race finally erupts after an angry Gloria accuses Richie of disrespecting her, but the conflict seems forced. Likewise, although Mama’s narrative includes a [...]
“Oleanna”: 100% Sweet
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“Oleanna” still fills me with reservations — artistic as well as political. Yes, the debate is tendentiously rigged. But you can’t argue with a play that retains the power to [...]
“Tuna Does Vegas”: 100% Sweet
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Joe Sears and Jaston Williams have made careers of writing, performing in, and touring a series of shows that put the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, under the microscope. Following [...]
“Our Town”: 91% Sweet – UPDATED
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The jury’s still out on “Our Town”: Is it a high school staple for a reason, or a victim of sentimentalists? The new production of Thornton Wilder’s 1937 classic at [...]
“Is He Dead?”: 83% Sweet -UPDATED
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Director Shashin Desai deserves bonus points for taking on something that’s essentially a twist on Charley’s Aunt with the added flavor of Feydeau. Desai’s sterling cast gives shape, color, and [...]
