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Gruesome Playground Injuries Review
Gruesome Playground Injuries is not an A-plus by any means, but not every show has to be.
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Pain au Théâtre: The Baker's Wife Review
Live theatre is hard. So many things have to go right for any given production to happen at all, let alone for it to be any good. That's why it's magical when it works! Unfortunately, there's no magic to be found at Classic Stage’s The Baker’s Wife.
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Sex, Drugs, and EDM
The new work by Jordan Tannahill playing at Studio Seaview manages to shock, delight, amuse, and devastate in equal measure.
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Caroline: A Theatrical Masterclass
In Caroline, we watch the narrative dominos fall from start to finish with our hearts in our throats. Allen has crafted a meticulous, unbroken chain of cause and effect. He knows his characters intimately and trusts them to take the wheel. The result is simply great theatre, from end to end.
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John Leguizamo's Big Yikes
Even when the show succeeds in building up tension, it reliably neuters itself with shoehorned exposition. One could argue that this is just how people–or at least, these characters–talk. And that might be true but–and I say this as a hardcore fan of American realism–it makes for shitty theatre.
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High Risk, High Reward Theatre at The Public: Seat of Our Pants Review
The Seat of Our Pants is bold, brave, irreverent, thought provoking, and hilarious, but above all, it is a simply exceptional piece of theatre.
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The Best (and Worst) of Y2K Shock Humor: Bat Boy Review
I guess it has some amount of cult classic appeal, but should that be enough to launch a production? I certainly don't think so.
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Irish Rep's Ambitious Memory Play Falls Flat
There's no shortage of "big knotty issues" and complex, compelling character dynamics to be mined here... but The Honey Trap stays mostly on the surface. I wanted to be drawn in, to invest in the characters, and care about the outcome, but no one made me, at least not in a sustained way.
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Happenstance Makes Halloween Magic with Dreadful Episodes at 59E59th
Happenstance Theatre Co creates a perfectly dosed romp through the macabre works of Edward Gorey and others, replete with excellent physical comedy, spellbinding music, and incredible costumes.
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Bold Theatrical Risk Taking Pays Off in Mexodus
Mexodus boldly pushes the live-ness of theatre to its near-breaking point, impressing at every turn.