More from Myron Meisel
‘The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord’: Theater Review
Three historical heavyweights contentiously collaborate in the afterlife on a recomposed New Testament in this speculative comedy from Bill Maher's longtime writer-producer
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‘Choir Boy’: Theater Review
MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient Tarell Alvin McCraney's black prep school drama soars on its revelatory singing of Negro spirituals
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‘Marjorie Prime’: Theater Review
Enduring star Lois Smith headlines this world-premiere production of Jordan Harrison's subdued futuristic play about memory and loss
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‘Happy Days’: Theater Review
Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub star in a fresh and vital American interpretation of the Samuel Beckett classic
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‘Race’: Theater Review
David Mamet's legal satire tackles the American inability to communicate about race
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‘The Tempest’: Theater Review
Magician Teller collaborates on the adaptation and direction of Shakespeare's fantastical romance
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‘Persians’: Theater Review
Aesychlus' "Persians" gets a simultaneously avant-garde and classical treatment at the Getty Villa in Malibu
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‘Bulrusher’: Theater Review
A mixed race teen experiences sexual and political awakening in this Pulitzer Prize finalist set in 1955 rural California
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‘I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky’: Opera Review
The 1994 Northridge earthquake is evoked in the Southern California premiere of this little-seen opera by John Adams and the poet June Jordan
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‘Reasons to Be Pretty’: Theater Review
Two couples face off and fall out in Neil LaBute's Tony-nominated play about the importance we place on physical beauty
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‘Broadway Bound’: Theater Review
Having appeared in the original 1986 Broadway cast, Jason Alexander returns to the closing chapter of Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical "Brighton Beach" trilogy, this time as director.
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‘In a Dark Dark House’: Theater Review
Despite contrivances in the play, this production of one of Neil LaBute's most emotionally raw works is confident and compelling.
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