theater reviews
Review: ‘Pueblo Espíritu’ showcases exciting experimental theater
May 18, 2023This “back-to-nature” pandemic-era play has all the elements of a Salvador Dali surrealist nightmare.
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‘Romeo Rocks the 80s’ is the latest Theatre by the Blind production
May 5, 2023A production like this will surely convince audiences that blindness is no impediment to living a full, meaningful life.
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Israeli dramatist Hanoch Levin’s ‘Yaacobi & Leidental’ in U.S. premiere
March 22, 2023Even as we laugh at the antics of the brash Yaacobi, the timid shlemiel Leidental, and the not-as-sweet-as-she-looks Ruth Shahash, we are reminded of our own shared human frailty in the face of desire and suffering.
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Brecht’s ‘The Mother’: The Revolution will not be dramatized
February 16, 2023Brecht’s 'The Mother' is a 1932 adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s 1906 novel of the same name about the 1905 Russian Revolution, which has been called “the dress rehearsal” for 1917’s Bolshevik Revolution.
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‘The Rosenberg Case’: A play reading, one night only
February 15, 2023Seven decades after the execution, questions remain about the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
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