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Church

After you leave the theatre, you can rearrange the pieces of Church into something mildly interesting.

Trojan Women

Euripides' Trojan Women is a powerful indictment of war, and Alfred Preisser, co-founder and artistic director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, has decided to push it further in his contemporary adaptation.

November

Like an expert marksman in a shooting gallery, playwright David Mamet takes aim at just about every hot-button issue of the day, scoring a bull's-eye every time.

Widows

Director Hal Brooks (Thom Pain) provides a slack outline of a staging, cognizant of the piece's poetry and brutality but in tune with neither.

The Mandrake

Peter Constantine's new translation of Niccolo Machiavelli's 1513 play The Mandrake has several elements going for it.

Save the World

Save the World by Marvel comic-book author and playwright Chris Kipiniak is slavishly loyal to its genre, following the crackup of a self-appointed cadre of heroes called the Protectorate and replete with nifty electronic sound effects.

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2.5 Minute Ride

A main tenet, if not the central one, of autobiographical solo performance is the performer's direct connection to the material.

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Hawthornucopia: Gable B & Gable F

The literary landscape of mid-19th-century America featured one of those bizarre outbreaks of genius that erupt periodically and make one's own era look shabby and pitiful by comparison.

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A Marriage of Convenience

"I like being gay," celebrity author Gary Vincent declares at the start of A Marriage of Convenience, Norman Beim's fitfully amusing comedy of sexuality and politics.

Read more : 22.01.2008 00:00:00