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Theater Review (NYC): ‘the dreamer examines his pillow’ by John Patrick Shanley
In its first NYC revival since its 1986 debut, the play mingles passages of naturalistic dialogue with fanciful poetic flowerings to expose depths of passion and self-doubt. And for long swaths of the 90-minute one-act, the Attic Theater Company cast carries this difficult material off with a crazed, sparkling bravado.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Summer Shorts’
From beginning to end the Summer Shorts Program Series A is awesome on many levels. The last play will resonates with drama and power.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Off-Broadway): ‘Butcher Holler Here We Come’
Lit only by the actors' headlamps, this dark poetic drama about trapped coal miners grew on me – like a clammy mold.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘I Know What Boys Want’ Explores Sex Tape Culture
A ripped-from-the-headlines story about a high school sex tape gone viral sets up a compelling premise but doesn't live up to its potential.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Threesome’ by Yussef El Guindi
'Threesome' begins as pure bedroom comedy, then slowly sours into muted seriousness, finally exploding into a cutting climax as secrets of sexual politics and terrible events of the recent past are revealed.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ by The Trip
This experimental treatment of the ancient myth takes in video, music, dance, and the online world as it plays with your expectations.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘The Weir’ by Conor McPherson at the Irish Repertory Theatre
A the denizens of an Irish country pub chat and gossip, then go on to spin the supernatural tales that are the meat of the drama, a vivid outside world of time and space unfolds – and a world beyond as well.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘Water By the Spoonful’ by Quiara Alegría Hudes at the Cellar Theater
The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner comes to San Antonio's Cellar Theater in a well-mounted production.
Read More »Interview: Alfian Sa’at of Wild Rice’s Malaysia-Singapore Theatrical Collaboration ‘Another Country’ on Amos Yee and Singapore Theatre
"The ‘political’ is still a taboo, and the idea of what constitutes the political is really wide."
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