“A Raisin in the Sun” and “Clybourne Park”: What a start to the year!

January 27, 2012

I was more excited than most when I learned CTG had programmed these two plays to run simultaneously, because I knew what y’all were in for. Wren Brown, producer of the Ebony Repertory Company, made a personal appeal for me to see his revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic last spring, and am I glad I […]

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“No Good Deed” from the Furious Theater Company @ [Inside] the Ford.

January 27, 2012

  I remain as admiring of the Furious ensemble’s ambitions, energy and talents as I am troubled by their seeming lack of interest in admitting anything more than a brief flutter of sincerity or innocence to alight on their busy stages. “No Good Deed” is flashy and entertaining, but falls way short when it tries […]

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Four Reasons to Make “Our Town” a Must-See.

January 22, 2012

1. You’ll want to get to know the work of Chicago director David Cromer, developing a well-deserved reputation for his ability to inject new life into good-to-great old plays. How lucky I was to happen to be in New York in time to catch his sadly ill-fated revival of “Brighton Beach Memoirs”; I was frankly […]

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