Sunday, July 30, 2017

Opening Skinner’s Box - An Interesting Intellectual Voyage

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Reviewed by Judd Hollander The theatrical group Improbable takes a look at the struggle to understand the human condition, as well as...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

Assassins - A musical bulls-eye

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Reviewed by Judd Hollander The world has long had a morbid fascination with those who try to kill public figures, while at the same t...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

Measure for Measure - A Probing Look at Hypocrisy

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Reviewed by Judd Hollander What you sew, so shall you eventually reap. A warning that could easily apply to William Shakespeare...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Julius Caesar - Where Absolute Certainty Can Be Your Undoing

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Reviewed by Judd Hollander Few plays are as consistently topical as William Shakespeare’s  Julius Caesar . Offering a forceful lesson...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

The Government Inspector - Looking Out For Number One Was Never This Much Fun

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Reviewed by Judd Hollander Red Bull Theater forgoes any kind of subtlety and nuance in presenting The Government Inspector . Adapte...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

The Whirligig - Too many coincidences

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Reviewed by Judd Hollander A subtitle for The Whirligig ,   the new drama by Hamish Linklater, could very well be "Six Degrees...
Friday, May 26, 2017

Arlington and Rooms - Studies of Isolation

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Reviewed by Judd Hollander Playwright Enda Walsh examines those caught up in situations of oppression and loneliness with his works   ...
Monday, May 15, 2017

Happy Days - Not Always Happy, But a Riveting Tale

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Reviewed by Judd Hollander   Denial becomes a powerful weapon of survival in the Yale Repertory Theatre's production of Samuel...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

In & Of Itself - A question of who we are and what we see

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Reviewed by Judd Hollander Before taking their seats in the Darryl Roth Theatre, audience members come face-to-face with a wall of card...
Monday, March 27, 2017

"The New Yorkers" - Less than a full meal, but still quite delicious

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Reviewed by Judd Hollander Illicit liquor flowing by the barrel, gangsters who won't stay dead after being shot, high society folks...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

"Escaped Alone" - Presenting Horrors Large and Small

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Reviewed by Judd Hollander Lewis Carroll once wrote that the time has come to talk of many things. In what might be described as an o...