Theater Review | 'Dividing the Estate': Death and Texas
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In this deeply funny play, Horton Footeâs authorial gaze is focused with satiric sharpness while retaining its elegiac sense of lifeâs transience.
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A new film about a meeting between two mothers over the deaths of their daughters in Jerusalem, a New York play set in the West Bank and a ceramic art exhibit are each being hailed for getting Israelis and Palestinians to talk to each other.
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In Stephen Massicotteâs excellent new play, T. E. Lawrence and Robert Graves are two veterans and it takes no leap of the imagination to translate their World War I experiences into stories from todayâs newspaper.
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Gabriel Byrne spends much of his new drama planted in a chair, engaged in dialogue with whomever occupies the sofa facing him. He has plenty to say, but what distinguishes his performance is something else he must do: express the act of listening.
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Ken and John Salazar sat on a sofa with their 82-year-old mother in the living room of the modest ranch that has been home to their family for 150 years. Four siblings and extended family members huddled under bookshelves packed with family photos, religious mementos and encyclopedias.
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Ken Urbanâs new play is mystifying and frustrating. But there are satisfying elements in the production, which are rendered with wit and feeling by the versatile cast.
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Pain, alienation and the thousand varieties of loneliness that flesh is heir to: these are the topics that Abi Morganâs âTender,â a British play being given its New York premiere by Thirteenth Night Theater, means to address.
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In every culture, the return of the racial repressed takes a distinct theatrical form.
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Mike Leighâs play âTwo Thousands Yearsâ is enjoyable, but oddly conceived and structured.
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Michael Murphy's quietly disturbing play reveals the dubious role that Cardinal Bernard F. Law, the Archbishop of Boston, played in a tragedy that irreparably damaged hundreds of families.
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Jonathan Marc Shermanâs play, while agreeably acted and directed, feels like an internal monologue distributed among four characters.
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In Stephen Massicotteâs excellent new play,  T. E. Lawrence and Robert Graves are two veterans and it takes no leap of the imagination to translate their World War I experiences into stories from todayâs newspaper.
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The director James L. Brooks emerges from a painful divorce with "Spanglish," a personal film in which cultures clash over about marriage, children and human frailty.
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By Katherine Cromer Brock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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Caryl Churchill's stunning new play is a gripping dramatic consideration of what happens in a world where people can be cloned.
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Verdiâs opera has two faces. It is spectacle on a royal scale, but also a love story wedding jealousy, honor and revenge to regime change.
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By Sandra Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.