Theater Review | 'The Misanthrope': No Wonder Heâs Cranky; Heâs Covered in Condiments
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Ivo van Hove goes for the guts in this wildly tossed salad of a production of MoliÃ¨reâs greatest play.
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Debased, infantile and reckless in the extreme, this compendium of body bravado and malfunction makes for some of the most fearless, liberated and cathartic comedy in modern movies.
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Broadway inspires a morbid fascination. Ever since vaudeville went respectable, a century or so ago, everyone from social critics and city planners to choreographers and doormen has predicted the imminent
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Not since Spinal Tap has there been a sharper satire of cinematic mythomania
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Opening a film with a small child straining on a toilet and talking about poop isnÂt just a bad idea; itÂs an invitation to unfortunate metaphor.
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Thereâs nothing sophisticated about the comedy in âSydney White,â a peppy, ultra-P.C. variation on âSnow White.â
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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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âGemelosâ is a theatrically novel story of endurance in the face of want and neglect.
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The surface of a production by the French-Austrian performance group Superamas is so shiny and so deeply comical that its pretty wrapping almost â but not quite â masks the seriousness of its core.
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Luridly earnest and laughably immoral, âIllegal Tenderâ is an old genre movie with a new look. Call it Hispanixploitation.
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This two-character play, based on a Doris Lessing novel, exaggerates the bookâs bluntness without capturing its nuanced perceptions.
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Lest anyone think that a play with three ethnic slurs in its title is going to dance around the subject of race and the limits of tolerable discourse, be advised that the bombshells are hurled from its opening moments.
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âApartment 3A,â a play by Jeff Daniels, is a modest romantic comedy that recalls early Neil Simon sprinkled with metaphysics.
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Amy Foxâs sensitive new play nicely captures something of the loneliness and childlike joy of letting your imagination wander.
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The Mettawee River Theater Companyâs adaptation of Aristophanesâ comedy demonstrates a kind of fundamental good health: it gets the job done.
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ÂIt Goes Without Saying,Â Bill BowersÂ zestful and endearing one-man show at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, is a classic story of growing up gay in an emotionally repressed 20th-century American family.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.