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The Rude Mechanicals theater company turns ensemble theater into a metaphor for life in this intelligent, funny, and moving new work about an acting guru and her students.
Though too tame and uneven to rank among the late Pina Bausch's best work, the American premiere of "Vollmond (Full Moon)" honors the memory of a dance legend.
Gregory S. Moss' carefully crafted new play is, like its hard-hearted heroine, a little too lacking in warmth.
SITI's double bill is a creepy tour-de-force, but "War of the Worlds" is the real gem of this revival.
In his curious form of journalism theater, Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright can't quite hold the stage himself, but his story demands to be heard.
Playwright Chuck Mee and the companies Witness Relocation and Ildi ! Eldi combine to offer a refreshing anecdote to apocalypticism: So what if the world's over? Let's dance.
The always genre-defying Laurie Anderson's new music-theater piece is as full of craft as of magic, resulting in an enchanting journey to the limits of the imagination.
Target Margin's newest devised play captures the frustrations of learning a new language in a new culture, but it feels more like a series of exercises than a theatrical event.
Taylor Mac and the Talking Band's new play about failure feels as if it gives up way too easily.
Judith Malina retells the story of Moses' wanderings in the desert from the dissidents' point of view, with compelling, if typically utopian, results.
It's a strange time to see a funny play about homophobic bullying, but "MilkMilkLemonade" is smart enough to earn its sometimes vulgar comedy.
The Visit feels like a Grimm fairy tale conspicuously missing a moral.
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Where Side Show shines most brightly is in Emily Padgett and Erin Davie's performances.
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South Korean-born playwright Young Jean Lee both does and doesn't traffic in subtlety.
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One way to recognize first-rate playwrights is to seek moments of surprising inspiration in their more unambitious plays.
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generations offers a richer experience than its half"hour runtime would suggest.
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The Killer is an everyman play written to resemble a political parable.
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The production makes the experience of entering and exiting the theater more exciting than watching the play itself.
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If/Then has all the emotional subtlety of a Nicholas Sparks novel.
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Caryl Churchill makes lyrical irony out of our inability to make sense of our universe, even as we haplessly and relentlessly keep trying.
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Robert Wilson's aesthetic is at home in the colossal Park Avenue Armory.
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Zachary Quinto brings a sulking but simmering aggression to Tom, played as a man who knows who he isn't, but not who he is.
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Much like the character of Edward Bloom, Big Fish tries too hard to convince us that it's special.
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The Machine, in short, is an anti-capitalist tragedy that spends half its time looking like a sci-fi melodrama and the other half like a biopic.
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This Shadows is exhilarating and deeply playful, a lively dance between art and reality.
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