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New York Stage Review features timely evaluations of both Broadway and off-Broadway productions, written by experienced theater critics.
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nystagereview.com | Frank Scheck
In the opening moments of Donald Margulies’ new play, we see a character in the shadows, sobbing profusely. That turns out to be the most dramatic moment in Lunar Eclipse, which depicts an evening-long conversation between a long-married couple as they watch the titular event. It might sound like the recipe for a listless evening in the theater, but when those two characters are played by Reed Birney and Lisa Emery it’s anything but.
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2 weeks ago |
nystagereview.com | Frank Scheck
The program for the new Audible & Together production shows that the play is “by August Strindberg, in a new version by Jen Silverman.” The script for the same production says that the play is “by Jen Silverman, after August Strindberg.” So is it any wonder that this version of Creditors feels a bit confused?
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2 weeks ago |
nystagereview.com | Melissa Rose Bernardo
If a single man and a married woman fall in love, do they owe their happiness to her (soon to be ex-) husband? August Strindberg thinks so, and titled his 1889 one-act play Creditors. “Sooner or later, he’ll show up to collect the debt,” says Gustav (Liev Schreiber), the aforementioned husband, in Jen Silverman’s very loose adaptation, now onstage at the Minetta Lane Theatre and produced by Audible x Together.
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nystagereview.com | Melissa Rose Bernardo
At the start of Goddess, the elaborate, captivating, chaotic new musical at the Public Theater, the Griotrio—aka the muses/storytellers, played by Melessie Clark, Teshomech Olenja, and Awa Sal Secka—promises to tell us the story of Marimba, the African goddess of music.
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nystagereview.com | Frank Scheck
Pop stars from the past are having a moment on New York Stages. On Broadway, you can see Jonathan Groff celebrating the life of Bobby Darin in Just in Time. And Off-Broadway, you can see playwrights Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor lamenting the life of Nat King Cole in Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole. In terms of enjoyment, there’s no contest. Described by its creators as a “fever dream,” the show is likely to leave you with a headache.
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