Saturday, September 30, 2017

For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday - A Tale of Family, Childhood and Mortality

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Reviewed by Judd Hollander The subtext to the question "when did you grow up" is "when did you stop being a child...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

A Parallelogram - A Bit Off The Mark

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Reviewed by Judd Hollander What if you knew exactly how your life was going to turn out, and there was absolutely nothing you could d...
Monday, August 7, 2017

A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Fun and Frolic, But Too Little Heart

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Reviewed by Judd Hollander The Public Theater pulls out all the stops with its eye-catching presentation of William Shakespeare's A...
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   ...