Putting a Still-Vexed Play in a Historical Context
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Shakespeare's most problematic play Â at least with respect to modern sensitivities Â receives an intelligent interpretation from Michael Radford and a superb cast.
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Mike Leighâs play âTwo Thousands Yearsâ is enjoyable, but oddly conceived and structured.
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Try as it occasionally  might, &quot;Zorro in Hell!&quot; is not really a play. It&#39;s more like a  kind of history lesson that a creatively goofy high school of  the performing arts class might have concocted.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: The cultural fascination with the middle ages rarely acknowledges that power is still won and abused in the same way
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Revolutionary or unreadable? The long, strange afterlife of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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A second Birmingham theatre company could stage a controversial play that was dropped following protests by members of the Sikh community. Send us your reaction.
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The men from Neil LaBute's new work discuss what they really thought about the way the play depicted male psychology. Their verdict? It's scarily dead on.
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Adapting Philip Glass' Barbarians opera for its U.S. debut requires overcoming significant technological limitations. By Theresa Everline.
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Welcome to the Theater for a New Audienceâs smackdown between two of the most notorious villains of the Elizabethan stage, both starring F. Murray Abraham.
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This beautifully performed, touching one-act play is not quite the personalized cry against genocide that the playwright intends it to be.
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The Shakespeare curriculum is shaken up after teachers have their say on which plays should be taught.
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A 17th century "Star is Born," though with interestingly convoluted sexual politics and a provocative historical thesis.
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Alfred Preisser, a founder of the Classical Theater of Harlem, has clumsily conflated the Euripides play âTrojan Womenâ with eyewitness accounts from civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Oren Safdieâs new play about playwriting and generational conflict is sweetly amusing, if dramatically limp.
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Dating, negotiating, fragging and making money.  Play and its consequences.
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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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âTrumpery,â a play that opened this month in New York, explores a period teeming with religiosity and controversy.