This extended Figar-anza with music is an exercise in extremes and an interesting concept. Unfortunately, half is also an ordeal.
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Theater Review (NYC): The Question House
What if there were a house in which only questions could be spoken?
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): This Beautiful City
The Civilians' new play with music is spirited and thought-provoking, with interesting characters, but suffers from a lack of plot.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): The Hefner Monologues by John Hefner at the Frigid Festival
An estranged cousin of Hugh Hefner deals with making a name for himself.
Read More »Music Review: Ted Russell Kamp – Poor Man’s Paradise
There's a wink and a smile behind just about all these songs -- a fizzy tonic for hard times.
Read More »Music Review: Eoin Harrington – Story
Harrington's characters may not find their holy grail of contentment, but the songs he writes about them are totally satisfying.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Soul Samurai by Qui Nguyen
This blast of urban adrenaline has a youthful, athletic cast with more energy than a solar flare, and talent to match.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Conversations on Russian Literature Plus Three More Plays by David Johnston
"Conversations on Russian Literature" has all the elements of the great suspense stories of our age: two characters sitting in a park talking.
Read More »No Place Like Home: Digging New York
You could live or work in this neighborhood your whole life and never know about the grisly things that happened here.
Read More »Music Review: Mark Olson & Gary Louris – Ready for the Flood
A combination of rough singing and sweet music gives this new collaboration between two original Jayhawks its charm.
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