Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' starring Lily Rabe and Billy Crudup, with Mark O'Rowe's updated script and Jack O'Brien's steely direction is superb.
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Theater Review: ‘Liberation’
'Liberation' questions and explores the strides of feminism in this time when the movement looks as if it has failed.
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Curse of the Starving Class Sam Shepard’s popular Curse of the Starving Class in a New Group revival thematically resonates with hunger, spiritually, psychically, emotionally. First appearing at the Public Theater, the play won an Obie for Best New American Play during the 1976-1977 season. Since then, Shepard’s sardonic comedy …
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The touch of this production feels just right – deep enough, with just enough shiny surface atop undercurrents of evil and insanity.
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At the heart of the musical 'Redwood' starring Idina Menzel is a mother's inconsolable grief at the loss of her son.
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In thinking about the late David Lynch's surreal masterpiece 'Twin Peaks,' David Lynch asks "Who Is the Dreamer?"
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If Musk were just an ordinary individual, his actions might be dismissed as a lapse in judgment or a poorly thought-out gesture. But Elon Musk is far from ordinary. Here's why his actions demand scrutiny.
Read More »In Memory of David Lynch – Keep Your Eye on the Donut and Not on the Hole
David Lynch has passed away, and his words "Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole" may sum up his career and skewered world view better than I could here.
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With her incredible acting and vocal skills, McDonald colonizes every cell of Mama Rose.
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Life and death, good and evil, Greek myth, and epic adventure collide in this stunning new puppetry spectacular.
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