166 stories by "Dan Rubins"
CurtainDirector Leah C. Gardiner has crafted a production nourished by the affection shown and attention paid across this rainbowed community
Letts trips over the line between objectifying women and satirizing the objectification of women.
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Review: If you had told me at age 12 that my two favorite literary protagonists " Harry Potter and Percy Jackson " would be headlining Broadway shows side-by-side in less than 15 years, I c…
Ultimately, it's the wrong man who animates the stage.
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The play is too overstuffed and too easily distracted to say anything profound or potent about its subject matter.
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The production gets out of the way and lets its stars do what they do best.
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Small miracles bookend Rattlestick Theater's Novenas for A Lost Hospital in Greenwich Village.
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.: There's a white man sitting in the audience taking notes at this American Moor
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Jamie Lloyd's gauzy new production of Harold Pinter's play aims for the abstractly lyrical.
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Descriptive Excerpt:His voice catches on a plaintive note, then crescendos to peals of laughter. Is this Lear? Is this Hamlet? No, it's just Mark Rodgers. . .delivering a 2-hour lecture perf…
Curtainup Reviewer: Broadway Bounty Hunter Dan Rubins
Descriptive Excerpt: The chance to see Annie Golden in her fiercely ridiculous (or ridiculously fierce) pursuit of justice is a bounty…
All of Luis Alfaro's characters are Latinx, and he offers deep contrasts between the ways that different newcomers, even within the same family, make sense of their new home and their sudde…
Zayd Dohrn's three-person play is a family affair. Director Lori Triolo, who also acts has brought her mom and dad along for the ride: Joe-Marie Triolo's the art director and Peter Triolo…
In 1933, the German X-ray technician Carl Tanzler (who often went by Count Carl von Cosel) snatched the body of
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The real live horse onstage in the Royal Opera House's revival of Robert Carsen's 2012 production of Verdi's glorious final
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What's new, Buenos Aires? Not much, unfortunately, in the West End revival of Evita, that singing timeline of a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. With the exception of some exh…
Very young audiences may well be inspired by seeing their peers storm the stage en masse in the British Theatre Academy's The Adventures of Pinocchio, currently playing a month-long run at t…
Matilda, Annie, and School of Rock may be employing myriad youngsters on the West End, but the Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre's new musical proves that there's plenty of youthful talent to…
Words, words, words. That's Shakespeare, not Tennessee Williams, but I've seldom been more spellbound by the pursuit of language " the desperation to find the right words, the frustration wh…
In the second scene of The Tempest, Prospero famously recounts to his daughter Miranda how the pair came to inhabit their magical island all those years ago, peppering his story with calls t…
Helen Edmundson's Queen Anne makes a convincing case that this neglected monarch deserves more attention and that the powerful Duchess of Marlborough, Sarah Churchill, who shared a tumultuou…
The Southwark Playhouse has had an excellent, eclectic season so far, with shows ranging from a thrilling production of conjoined twins musical Side Show, the brilliant dive into the 17th-ce…
At the Royal Opera House's Saturday evening performance of Mozart's opera seria, Mitridate, re di Ponto, two parallel tales of young artists who are suddenly thrust into the spotlight collid…
First things first: vocally and orchestrally, the new production of Otello at the Royal Opera House, starring the legendary Jonas Kaufmann singing the title role at last, comes close to flaw…
