Wed, Apr 19, 2006, 12:00am
I'll come right out and say it. I don't love it.
Because this is a show that believes we should love things not despite their quirks, but because of them, there seems to be an expectation that one should love this show for the same reason.
Wed, Mar 22, 2006, 12:00am
Had Shakespeare lived just 400 years later, he would have been in for a pleasurable surprise. The spirit of the bawdy bard is alive, well, and spoofing his play titles this month at the Public Theater.
Thu, Feb 2, 2006, 12:00am
Why is it that violence and vaginas often go together while art and activism rarely combine beyond the dusty basement of a performance space somewhere in Brooklyn?
Thu, Jan 26, 2006, 12:00am
Normally, a play that bills itself as an "unusual approach" to a classic work causes some uneasy theatergoers to run far, far away from said play, especially if this approach promises "theatrical deconstruction" and the use of multimedia.
Thu, Dec 1, 2005, 12:00am
Theater really is absurd when the best thing about a Beckett production is the language.
Thu, Dec 1, 2005, 12:00am
Sweet and colorful-these are the key attributes of any marmalade. The same elements are found, too, in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Mr. Marmalade, a new play by Noah Haidle.
Thu, Nov 17, 2005, 12:00am
The Queen's Company must not think that witnessing an all-female theater group tackle Shakespeare's famously misogynistic The Taming of the Shrew is reason enough to come down to the tiny Walkerspace in TriBeCa this month.
Mon, Oct 24, 2005, 12:00am
In the wake of the Holocaust, the phrase "never again" has been evoked time and time again in regard to letting such a horrific catastrophe happen again. Yet happen again it has, in forms ranging from the Rwandan genocide of 1994 to the current and ongoing crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
Thu, Oct 6, 2005, 12:00am
At first glance, the message that the creators of In the Continuum seem to want to impart is "blame the men."
Thu, Sep 15, 2005, 12:00am
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