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The Power of Love
What happens when a god falls down to Earth and a mortal ascends to the heavens? You get one of the most enduring stories of love wrapped in a myth — Cupid and Psyche, a story from Apuleius’s Metamorphoses, which was recently presented by Turn to Flesh Productions at TBG Theatre (312 West 36th St.). … Read more
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Dire Family Dynamics
“People can be barbaric,” says Mother in The Open House—a supremely ironic remark given the poisonous familial atmosphere in Will Eno’s new play. The matriarch has gathered with her family in their living room, but it’s Father (Peter Friedman), in a wheelchair, who dominates with his malignity. Visiting Son and Daughter are sitting on the … Read more
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Lips Locked Uneasily
Sarah Ruhl’s new play, Stage Kiss, examines the rekindling of a romance between a scattered actress and a struggling actor as they discover they have been cast as lovers 10 years after their break-up and estrangement. Foolish, egotistical thespians and their hangers-on have long provided comic fodder for the stage: George Kelly’s The Torch-Bearers (1923); … Read more
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Lady Macbeth in Love
The Everyday Inferno Theatre Company’s production of Something Wicked aims at a deeper exploration of Lady Macbeth, the protagonist’s wife in William Shakespeare’s tragedy. In the original play, Macbeth encounters three witches, the Weird Sisters, as he returns from battle. The witches reveal that he will become the King of Scotland. Therefore, Lady Macbeth persuades … Read more
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A Winter’s Tale Ends in Spring
The WorkShop Theater Company’s production of The Winter’s Tale is a very traditional staging of William Shakespeare’s play, which emphasizes the beauty of the words and the great characters that define the Elizabethan bard. In the play, Polixenes, the ruler of Bohemia, has been a guest for nine months at the court of Leontes, the … Read more
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I Want to Speak with the Writer
Memory is a dangerous place to live. It is often untrustworthy and filled with the lies we wish were the truth. It is also the place we’re most likely to encounter those we wish we could forget. For Bemadette, in Nilo Cruz’s brilliant Sotto Voce, memory is both where she most wants to be and … Read more
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