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R.U.R. Is an Important Classic
And Open Circle's production is straight-ahead.
Richard Morin
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Two Unbridled Actors Keep Their By-the-Numbers Characters Fresh
By The Waters of Babylon does everything it can to succeed.
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Summer of Love
Shakespeares romance is transposed to the groovy 60s. Shakespeares romance is transposed to the groovy 60s.
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Bitterness Surfaces Brutally in Kvetch, a Dark Domestic Comedy
Thanks to the cast, Kvetch overcomes its own lack of pith.
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Flourishes of Stagecraft Distract From Three Stories of Survival in The Breach
The Reps production is a monumental effort that includes a pool containing 840 cubic feet of water, buckets…
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Life Is a Cabaret
A plays characters performliterallyas if their lives depended on it.
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Running Two Shows Concurrently Might be Throwing Shakespeare Out of Focus
Was this ambition?
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Dreams in the Witch House Doesnt Quite Fly
Like Edgar Allan Poe and Ambrose Bierce, the Rhode Island–born author H.P. Lovecraft created insular fictional worlds ruled…
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Intiman’s Mockingbird Is Solid and Safe
There are no surprises in this retelling of a classic.
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Mrs. Klein Is Fringe Theater at Its Finest
Mrs. Klein Fascinating, disturbing, and rewarding, Sight Nine’s production of Nicholas Wright’s three-character period piece, Mrs. Klein, is…
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Sunny Cafe and Gremet Come Off a Bit Flabby
Nicholas Robbins’ two new “American absurdist plays,” Sunny Cafe and Gremet, are nothing if not ambitious—with all that…
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Painful Recent History Is Rendered Intelligently, but Without Focus or Parody, in Stuff Happens
The play offers little more than an educated persons move-by-move recap of the rush to war.
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Theater Schmeater Takes On a Disturbing Conspiracy-Theory Thriller
In a kind of kitchen-sink psychobabble that eerily imitates the tone of the play itself, Theater Schmeater’s press…
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WET Presents a Greek Fragment From the Female Perspective
In a departure from its usual gritty, avant-garde productions of plays by young authors, Washington Ensemble Theatre is…
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Souvenir Is a Hilarious, Strangely Heartbreaking Meditation on Warhol’s 15-Minutes-of-Fame Aphorism
Meet the world's most unjustifiably confident singer.
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In the Kafka Colony Treats All Things Kafkaesque With a Light Touch
Few writers seem as possessed by genius as Franz Kafka, the Austrian insurance-company clerk whose nightly expeditions into…