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Why 'Pygmalion' Can't Be More Like a 'Lady'

By FRANK RIZZO

Tuesday, March 27, 2018 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

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Bedlam tackles Shaw's classic downtown while the musical plays on Broadway --- Eric Tucker, the director and star of Bedlam's stripped-down take on Pygmalion, isn't concerned that Lincoln Center Theater is simultaneously mounting a lavish revival of the musical based on George Bernard Shaw's play. In fact, he welcomes it. "It's a great thing for people...

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How Did This Piece of Art Become a Play?

By RAVEN SNOOK

Thursday, March 15, 2018 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

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Inside the 25-year journey of Patrick Dunning's The Signature Project --- The Signature Project, currently running at the Sheen Center, was never meant to be onstage. The brainchild of Dublin-born, Oregon-based visual artist Patrick Dunning, it started back in 1990 as an ambitious 76 foot by 36 foot mural that would use the signatures of 1 million...

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Why All Student Activists Should See This Show

By SANDY MACDONALD

Wednesday, March 14, 2018 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

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There's much to be learned from the South African protest docudrama The Fall --- "Nothing about us without us!" That slogan served as a rallying cry for the University of Cape Town (UCT) students who, in the spring of 2015, demanded a statue of 19th-century British imperialist Cecil Rhodes be removed from campus. Their story is recounted in The Fall,...

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What Is the Nature of Violence?

By ELIZA BENT

Tuesday, March 13, 2018 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

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The Wholehearted attacks tough questions at Abrons Arts Center --- Ironically, there's something comforting about procedural crime dramas because we know how they will go. Female victim endures a violent, often sexual attack. If she survives, we see her crying and shaking in an interview with the cops. If she doesn't, we see her naked body brutalized....

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How Do You Get Into the Mind of a Mentally Ill Man?

By BRIAN SCOTT LIPTON

Thursday, March 08, 2018 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

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30 Rock star Maulik Pancholy plays a deluded patient in Good for Otto --- For the first half of David Rabe's new drama Good for Otto, set in a rural mental health clinic, Maulik Pancholy sits silently on the side of the stage, barely noticeable as his costars command the spotlight. But that all changes in Act II when his character, Alex, enters the...

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What Can We Learn from This Diva?

By REGINA ROBBINS

Monday, February 26, 2018 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

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Daniel Alexander Jones channels soulful soothsayer Jomama Jones in the new musical Black Light --- "What if I told you…I've seen the future? What if I told you…I'm from the future?" intones Jomama Jones, the theatrical alter ego of writer-performer Daniel Alexander Jones, in the opening moments of Black Light, which debuted at Joe's...

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He's So Good at Playing Bad

By SUZY EVANS

Wednesday, February 21, 2018 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

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Veteran actor Zach Grenier tackles an ethically compromised politician in Kings --- The last time Zach Grenier appeared at the Public Theater, he played Vice President Dick Cheney in David Hare's Stuff Happens in 2006. Now he's back on the same stage portraying another scheming politician: a fictional Texas senator in Sarah Burgess's Kings. In...

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