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Noah Racey and Melinda Sullivan brought bright vaudeville spirit to the concert with a vigorous song and tap that summoned memories of Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan in those amiable '40s teen screen musicals. …

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Liz Callaway: The Beat Goes On
Reviewed by: Brian Scott Lipton

The Broadway star's solo cabaret act at Feinstein's is a delicious tribute to the 1960s.

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'Bee' is soothing b-a-l-m By Jeffrey Borak

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'Ladies Man' has some fun with adapted farces By Louise Kennedy

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In 'Self-Defense,' the oddest of couples By Sandy MacDonald

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'Beyond Therapy' gets help from a fine cast By Louise Kennedy

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This Beautiful City
Review By PAUL HARRIS

"This Beautiful City" officially premieres at D.C.'s Studio Theater in a lively production that gently skewers the religious right.

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The Burial at Thebes
Review By FRANK RIZZO

The U.K.'s Nottingham Playhouse Theater Company gives the work a powerful staging in its U.S. preem at New Haven's Intl. Festival of Arts & Ideas.

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The Mystery of Irma Vep
Reviewed by: Patrick Lee

Arena Stage's production of Charles Ludlam's delightful romp falls short of its intended hilarity.

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Oph3lia reviewed by Jerry Portwood

Imagine sitting in the classroom of a liberal arts college with a young, newly minted professor prepared to impart all her precious analysis of Shakespeare's women to her students.

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Everybody Expects Me to Write Another 'Streetcar' reviewed by Robert Windeler

Jeremy Lawrence has "arranged and performed" this 70-minute piece about Tennessee Williams in the years following his last big critical and box-office success.

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Revival! The Gospel According to the Fabulous Pink Flamingos reviewed by David Finkle

Go ahead and ask what the best act of the year's first half is. Why, it's the Fabulous Pink Flamingos, those perpetual senior-class cutups.

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East Village Chronicles, Vol. 5 reviewed by Sam Thielman

Like most short-play fests, attending East Village Chronicles is a lot like being 5 and eating a bowl of Lucky Charms: You spend most of the time wondering why it isn't all marshmallows.

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Theater Review | 'Four Women and a Waitress'
Dominance Struggles That Don't Include Men By RACHEL SALTZ

This lopsided program of two one-acts starts with a fizzle and ends with a bang.

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Theater Review | 'Safe'
A Two-Man, One-Woman Crime Wave By NEIL GENZLINGER

Ron Fitzgerald's play feels familiar, a "Bonnie and Clyde" plus one.

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Hamlet
Review By DAVID ROONEY

Public a.d. Oskar Eustis' bloodless retelling of "Hamlet" awkwardly reshapes an intimate tale of death and revenge into one of political conflict and disillusionment with the military-minded ruling class.

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A 'Hamlet' With Bells, Whistles & Puppets By ERIC GRODE

Without a more judicious director (or, obviously, a bristly playwright) on hand to apply the brakes, the flood of dramaturgical notions on display threatens to engulf this "Hamlet."

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Review: 'Hamlet' BY ROBERT FELDBERG

There is the consolation of watching the show under the stars in the park, but this tepid, drawn-out "Hamlet" seldom rises above the commonplace.

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An overly agitated Hamlet stalks the stage in Central Park By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic

It's a showy performance, full of flourish but little real feeling.

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Hamlet reviewed by David Sheward

Michael Stuhlbarg does show some zany energy during the mad scenes, and there is a manic excitement in his mercurial mood swings, but these flashes of fire fail to ignite his overall soggy, sobbing presence.

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Hamlet
Reviewed by: David Finkle

Michael Stuhlbarg gives a surprisingly hammy performance in Oskar Eustis' badly directed version of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy.

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Hamlet
Review by Matthew Murray

Stuhlbarg's usual buoyancy gives way to little more than a stop-motion animated epic of spiritual self-understanding.

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Review: Public Theater's 'Hamlet' in Central Park BY LINDA WINER

This updated "Hamlet" (on a concrete, institutional-looking set) is busy with raucous action and sound effects, but short on the quiet wonders of introspection.

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A worthy 'Hamlet'? Not to be BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

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Not-so-great Dane for 'Hamlet' by Joe Dziemianowicz (**)

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HAMLET AND CHEESE By FRANK SCHECK (**)

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Whips and Scorns of Time, Stinging All They Touch By BEN BRANTLEY

As played by Michael Stuhlbarg, Hamlet is unavoidably watchable and on occasion quite entertaining, but never for an instant moving.

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Disastrous (If Funny) Hamlet Howls in Central Park: John Simon

Oskar Eustis's Central Park revival is the most misguided "Hamlet" I have ever seen. If there existed a booby prize for consummate demolition of Shakespeare, Eustis would win it hands down.

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