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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Maids’ by Jean Genet
Transposed to New Orleans, the French classic still poses difficult questions about action and inaction, masters and servants.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The God Projekt’
Inventive puppetry propels this story of an aging God who conceives a new project: to re-create mankind.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Cottage’ by Sandy Rustin
This thoroughly enjoyable farce picks up where Noël Coward left off, but with a female character in charge.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Starlight Express’
Strange and unique, especially for its time (it was first performed in 1984), 'Starlight Express' is still different in today's theatre landscape. But many of this musical's elements seem outdated.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘All That Fall,’ A Radio Play by Samuel Beckett
Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon are wonderful in Samuel Beckett's radio play directed by Trevor Nunn.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The English Bride’ by Lucile Lichtblau
An interrogation room, and two separated suspects, once lovers, questioned by a Mossad agent about a terrorist act they may have committed. Whose story should you believe?
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Blithe Spirit’ by Noel Coward
Things go very wrong when a medium brings back the spirit of a man's dead wife.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Atomic Jaya’ by Huzir Sulaiman
It isn't every day that a local play, about local people and local issues, comes along that is as funny or more so than the best-heralded comedy from the West
Read More »Theatre Review (LA): ‘The Mystery of Irma Vep’ at the Falcon
One of the most popular works by the outrageous playwright Charles Ludlam receives a first-class production in Burbank.
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