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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Review: Panti’s ‘High Heels in Low Places’ Delivers Identity Politics in Stilettos by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Irish drag queen Panti, who gained fame when her speech about homophobia went viral, makes an argument for the freedom to be oneself at the Irish Arts Center.

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Monday, June 8, 2015

Review: ‘Smile at Us, Oh Lord’ Depicts a Jewish Odyssey by Laura Collins-Hughes

This mournful play, adapted from a novel by the Israeli-based Lithuanian author Grigory Kanovich, is presented by the Cherry Orchard Festival.

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Friday, June 5, 2015

Review: ‘J. Edgar Klezmer: Songs From My Grandmother’s F.B.I. Files’ Tells All at Here Arts Center by Laura Collins-Hughes

Eve Sicular’s play documents her grandmother’s life, with help from J. Edgar Hoover’s watchful eye and meticulous records.

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Review: At Ensemble Studio Theater, Men and Women Chatting Privately by Laura Collins-Hughes

This theater’s 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays includes a marital comedy by Julia Cho and a portrait of intimacy and entitlement by Martyna Majok.

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Snapshot: ‘Cuddles,’ From Joseph Wilde, Turns the Tables on a Fear of Horror by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mr. Wilde talks about his unnerving vampire tale at 59E59 Theaters, which depicts two women — one all-controlling, the other wrapped up in fantasy tales.

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Friday, May 29, 2015

Review: In ‘The Upper Room,’ Homesteaders Living an Eco-Nightmare by Laura Collins-Hughes

Jeremy Bloom and Brian Rady’s play, at the New Ohio Theater, includes Catherine Brookman’s music, rising water levels, New England farmers and marine animals behaving oddly.

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Review: ‘For the Last Time’ Sets a Hawthorne Novel in New Orleans, in 1950 by Laura Collins-Hughes

Nancy Harrow and Will Pomerantz collaborate on this jazz musical at the Clurman Theater at Theater Row.

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Monday, May 25, 2015

Hot for teacher by Laura Collins-Hughes

Amanda Palmer's secret weapon for ART's "Cabaret"? Her high school mentor.

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Is Inge coming back into vogue? by Laura Collins-Hughes

Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Peter DuBois didn't have to look far to find someone raising an eyebrow or two at his desire to revive William Inge's “Bus Stop.'' The firs…

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Fictional town sets Annie Baker's plays in motion by Laura Collins-Hughes

Annie Baker will have three of her "Shirley, Vt." plays performed in a festival of her work.

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Harm for the holidays by Laura Collins-Hughes

At the Huntington Theatre, collaborators reunite for a new play that reveals a family's tragic flaws at festive times, "Vengeance Is the Lord’s."

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Eye of the storm by Laura Collins-Hughes

She conjures a ‘Tempest' with a twist in her new film, but Julie Taymor is at the center of a very different maelstrom with her mega-budget Broadway musical, ‘Spider-Man'

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On stage, taking risks by Laura Collins-Hughes

With aerial stunts, how can performers stay safe?

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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Review: In Sara Fellini’s ‘In Vestments,’ Haunted by More Than Ghosts by Laura Collins-Hughes

Theater 4the People’s new play, about a crumbling church and the people trying to hold it together, takes place in a church on the Upper West Side.

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Sunday, May 17, 2015

Review: A Molière-Born Cad for the Ages in ‘Don Juan’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

Jess Burkle’s larkish adaptation of Molière’s “Don Juan,” at the Pearl Theater, features modern colloquial language and a loud-spoken costume.

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Monday, May 4, 2015

Review: ‘Red Flamboyant’ Is Earthbound and Flush With Romanticism by Laura Collins-Hughes

Don Nguyen’s play at Anderson Hall was inspired by a newspaper article about H.I.V.-positive women in Vietnam, but is most successful when it strays away from the source material.

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Review: ‘Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity,’ Young New Yorkers Tell Their Stories by Laura Collins-Hughes

Five young New Yorkers are featured in Ping Chong + Company’s new work of interview-based theater at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in Long Island City, Queens.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Review: ‘Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic’ Explores the Murky Death of the Actress Olive Thomas by Laura Collins-Hughes

The death by poison of the “Ziegfeld Follies” beauty in Paris in 1920 is the subject of an immersive theater piece at the Liberty Theater.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Review: ‘The Unexpected Guest,’ From Agatha Christie, Dispenses With a Bully by Laura Collins-Hughes

The new Theater Breaking Through Barriers production at the Clurman Theater opens with a dead body in a wheelchair.

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Friday, April 10, 2015

Review: ‘Clinton the Musical’ Proves Unimpeachably Amusing by Laura Collins-Hughes

The show employs satire without the bite of meanspiritedness.

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Monday, April 6, 2015

In Bess Wohl’s ‘Small Mouth Sounds,’ a Loss for Words Leads to a Gain in Insight by Laura Collins-Hughes

The characters in a new play say almost nothing, an exercise in mindfulness that was both challenging and relieving for its writer.

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Review: ‘Music Hall,’ a Meditation in Stage Poetry by Jean-Luc Lagarce by Laura Collins-Hughes

Tuta Theater Chicago brings a work by the French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce to 59E59 Theaters.

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Sunday, April 5, 2015

Review: In ‘Soldier X,’ Rehana Lew Mirza Explores Issues Off the Battlefield by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ms. Mirza’s play — full of emotions, conflicts and other military-related issues — intends to educate theatergoers.

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Stage Shows Are Most Alive at the First Preview by Laura Collins-Hughes

Theater is always full of chance-taking and excitement, never more so than the first time a show has a preview.

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Monday, March 9, 2015

Review: ‘Fashions for Men,’ a Revival at the Mint Theater by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ferenc Molnar’s play, a romantic comedy that came to Broadway in 1922, revolves around a tenderhearted Budapest clothier and his road back to happiness.

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Friday, March 6, 2015

‘The Events’ Uses Local Choirs for Vocals, Minus a Script by Laura Collins-Hughes

The play, which examines the aftermath of a mass shooting at a choir rehearsal, uses local choruses who volunteer to be a part of the show.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Review: Eberhardt’s Fierce Ride, in ‘The Nomad’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

“The Nomad,” from Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney, follows the journey of a Western woman who finds freedom posing as a man in North Africa.

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Review: In ‘Abundance,’ by Beth Henley, Mail-Order Brides Find Husbands and Lice by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ms. Henley’s play, in a revival by the Actors Company Theater, is a rare western in which women are the stars.

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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Review: In ‘Rocket to the Moon,’ a Dentist Deals With a Midlife Crisis by Laura Collins-Hughes

In a revival of this Clifford Odets play, directed by Dan Wackerman, the protagonist dreams of a less soul-sucking life, yet lacks the courage to try to build one.

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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Review: ‘Churchill,’ a One-Man Show at New World Stages by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ronald Keaton portrays Winston Churchill in reflecting on that former British prime minister’s anecdote-rich life.

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Friday, February 6, 2015

Theater Review: ‘Texas in Paris’ Stars Lillias White at York Theater Company by Laura Collins-Hughes

In “Texas in Paris,” Lillias White and Scott Wakefield play very different singers on a music tour in France.

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