480 stories by "Michael Sommers"
★★★☆☆ Patrick Page is formidable as a noble Roman driven mad in Red Bull's staging of Shakespeare's shocker
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★★★☆☆ Ma-Yi Theater premieres Jeena Yi's contemporary comedy-drama about Korean American sisters
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★★★★☆ Jasmine Amy Rogers, Jordan Donica, and Tonya Pinkins lead a terrific ensemble in Michael John LaChiusa's musical of Roaring '20s madness
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★★★☆☆ Matthew Broderick stars as a clueless film idol in Irish Rep's U.S. premiere of a prickly comedy
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★★★★☆ The Public Theater premieres Anna Ziegler's new version of a very old story
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★★★★☆ Audience participation is welcomed in a comical endurance contest
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★★★★☆ Hope Davis and Josh Hamilton brighten a sorrowful new Wallace Shawn drama staged by Andre Gregory
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★★☆☆☆ A new musical satirizes the gullibility of flyover America
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★★★☆☆ Kathleen Chalfant and Elizabeth Marvel lead the ensemble in a new play about a women's sobriety group
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★★☆☆☆ A potential concept for timely Shakespeare works better in theory than onstage at TFANA
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★★★☆☆ Mary Kate O Flanagan shares affirmative stories in a winning debut at Irish Rep
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★★★☆☆ Elevator Repair Service delivers a mad gallery of James Joyce's Dubliners
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The annual theater festival continues with a poignant Australian import, a cancellation, and an installation
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Fresh works from Ireland and Japan arrive in the opening week of the annual festival of innovative theater
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★★★☆☆ Kenny Leon strategically stages Gian Carlo Menotti's 45-minute chamber opera
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★★★☆☆ Michael Cerveris is Scrooge in a Holiday Return of the Matthew Warchus/Old Vic show
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★★★☆☆ A 15-member ensemble spins through the musical rise and fall of a patriarchal society
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★★★☆☆ Nazareth Hassan's new backstage dramedy studies process and power
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★★★★☆ Andrea Martin sparks David Cromer's Second Stage premiere of a meaningful comedy of racial identity
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★★☆☆☆ Ruthie Ann Miles shines amid Ethan Lipton's respectful musical version of a mad Thornton Wilder classic
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★★★☆☆ Patrick Page blazes as a Balkans terrorist in Rajiv Joseph's what-if World War I history play
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★★★☆☆ Anne Washburn's absorbing study of collective existence melts into something else at the finish line
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★★★☆☆ Stephen Kunken is good as a bad guy in a new Royal Shakespeare drama about special interests and global warming
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★★☆☆☆ Expect trashy doings, nonstop name drops, insults, and murder done for fun
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★★★★☆ Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock deliver poignant performances in Samuel D. Hunter's quietly lovely drama
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