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‘About Time’ embraces aging wisely and warmly, then overstays its welcome
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Barry Boehm's "Our House" tackles race and gay marriage in 2014 America, but stumbles under the weight of its own…
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‘Burnout Paradise’ stacks the odds against itself and wins anyway
Four treadmills, a grant application, and an Italian dinner: Pony Cam's "Burnout Paradise" is participatory theater with a mission.
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Goodman's The Brief Life of Oscar Wao wants to celebrate Dominican lives. It just keeps stepping on the women to…
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What three productions are saying about Asian visibility right now
From disco Marcos to corporate climbers, three regional theater productions are asking who gets to rise and what the climb…
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"Blood/Love" is a goth-glam fever dream with genuine theatrical ambition: messy in the best possible way, and impossible to look…
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Shattered Globe Theatre's “Morning, Noon, and Night” has big ideas but thin characters. Too bad the humans got lost in…
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5 regional productions worth the trip this March
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Can a sing-along musical about cancer break your heart? ‘Night Side Songs’ never quite finds its pulse
"Night Side Songs" at Lincoln Center Theater asks you to feel something about life, illness, and death—but mostly asks you…
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In ‘Bigfoot!’ everyone’s a little othered. Until one very hairy hero takes a giant leap for all of them
'Bigfoot!' is a furry, funky love letter to misfits, packed with kooky characters, 80s synth-pop charm, and a heart bigger…
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‘Here Lies Love’ asks who gets to tell Filipino history, then dances around the answer
Center Theatre Group's 'Here Lies Love' captivates with Filipino talent but can't reconcile disco spectacle with political history.
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