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House Hunters - America Ferrera stars in the Women's Project's latest

Since the latest financial crisis reared, some 4 million homes have been foreclosed upon. That's good news for Crystal (America Ferrera) . . . sort of. Sure, the struggling heroine of Laura Marks's Women's Project play, Bethany, may have lost her ow...

by Alexis Soloski on February 6, 2013
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Automata for the People - Robot Theater Project Offers Circuit Training

Autograph seekers: Ready your pens. New stars have been born. Or soldered, maybe. Meet Takeo and Mimoko, each a Robovie R3. With a couple of human actors, they perform I, Worker, one of two plays comprising Seinendan Theater Company and Osaka Univer...

by Alexis Soloski on February 6, 2013
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Baal Buster - Ethan Hawke Goes for Brecht in Clive

Ethan Hawke allures even in filthy leather pants and a ridiculous dye job. This is no mean feat. He stars in Clive as the titular amoral, asocial antihero. But as much as you may cheer Hawke's aggressive performance, you may also hiss the director s...

by Alexis Soloski on February 6, 2013
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Ramblin' Man - Actor Hamish Linklater makes his playwriting debut

When was the last time a tortilla chip led you to a discourse on ontology? As Robert (Noah Robbins), an antic teenager, loiters at a bus stop and chomps a handful of Cool Ranch Doritos, he contemplates his place in the universe. "Is, like, the chip ...

by Alexis Soloski on February 6, 2013
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The House of Von Macram Cuts Itself with Clichs - The bloodied curtain

Actors, beware the curtain call that requires you to wade through puddles of blood. So treacherous is the Bushwick Starr's stage at the end of The House of Von Macram--a new musical spoofing slasher flicks and the fashion industry, created by theat...

by Miriam Felton-Dansky on January 30, 2013
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"Dieter Roth. Bjrn Roth" Explores Disorder and Decay - Sultans of rot

Dieter Roth's massive new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth's 25,000-square-foot Chelsea space is like the miracle foodstuff of the moment, 100 percent raw cacao: It's dark, it's bitter, and it's supposed to be good for you. The uptown gallery's inaug...

by Christian Viveros-Fauné on January 30, 2013
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The Jammer Pits Idealism Against a '50s Roller Derby - Unready to roll

Proletarians are funny, apparently. Their low-class vulgarity and profanity makes us laugh because it's an equalizer: However refined we imagine ourselves to be, we recognize ourselves in it. At the same time, lower-class religious devoutness, with ...

by Michael Feingold on January 30, 2013
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Arresting Images: Richard Ross, Andy Kaufman, Natasza Niedziolka

Richard Ross: 'Juvenile-in-Justice' Inside a Kansas detention center, a 12-year-old boy sits alone in a cinder block cell, completing a homework assignment on Old Yeller and trying to make it through a two-week lockup--punishment for expressing p...

by Robert Shuster on January 23, 2013
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Working on a Special Day's Chalk and Talk - A new play dips into the Italian cinema

Whatever their Off-Broadway salaries are, actors Ana Graham and Antonio Vega earn them. Not only do they perform Working on a Special Day--a collaboration between our own Play Company and Mexico's Por Piedad Teatro--they direct, co-translate, supply...

by Alexis Soloski on January 23, 2013
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Scarlett Johansson Stars in a Blaring Revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Old yeller

Many people have worked very hard on the new production of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Rodgers Theatre), and I feel extremely sad for them, since all their efforts have added up to nothing but a confused, noisy mess, which ha...

by Michael Feingold on January 23, 2013
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Life and Times: So This Is Growing Up - The Public Theater's lengthy, enjoyable show brings childhood memories to life.

What genre is your life story? Were your teenage years a murder mystery? Did your preschool comrades resemble a communist youth group, performing perfectly choreographed mass spectacles in tidy red and gray uniforms? You may consider this questio...

by Miriam Felton-Dansky on January 23, 2013
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The Suit Might Need a Tailor - The current production at BAM leaves a questionable aftertaste.

Watching Peter Brook's version of The Suit--now playing at BAM--is a bit like encountering an appealing handcrafted item from abroad at a Ten Thousand Villages store. You can't question the loveliness of the object, no one was harmed making it, but y...

by Jacob Gallagher-Ross on January 23, 2013
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Cracked Actor

Renata Poljak: 'Uncertain Memories' With stirring orchestral strains on the soundtrack, teenage soldiers attack Nazis invading their homeland. The camera pulls in tight as the hero of the 1979 Yugoslavian feature Bosko Buha falls to fascist gunfi...

by R. C. Baker on January 16, 2013
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The Other Place's Bad Brain - Laurie Metcalf stars in Sharr White's Broadway transfer

Mad scenes, as the opera composers of the bel canto era well knew, make great opportunities for divas. I had never previously thought of Laurie Metcalf--an actress who always seems to come bearing an ineffable, hardheaded reality--as a diva. Yet her...

by Michael Feingold on January 16, 2013
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Picnic Gets Another Broadway Revival - Out of the '50s basket

The Roundabout revival of William Inge's Picnic (American Airlines Theatre) is the sort of event that makes people wonder whether anyone should revive old plays at all. An unusually problematic case, Picnic begins with several strikes against it. A ...

by Michael Feingold on January 16, 2013
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The Service Road Heads Into a Strange Park - Adhesive Theater Project mounts Obie winner Erin Courtney's new play

Every park has its service road. Unremarkable, it links compost heaps and equipment sheds. Nothing could be more mundane, though in emergencies such as the tornado that plowed through Prospect Park in 2010, it might enable a heroic endeavor or two. T...

by Molly Grogan on January 16, 2013
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Something's Got Ahold of My Heart: Please, Let Go - Hand2Mouth Does Love and Cliches at La MaMa

Being in love is good. Getting heartbroken is bad. Relationships are sometimes fun, sometimes lame. No revelations there: It's the way the world has always worked. Something's Got Ahold of My Heart, currently at La MaMa, takes a crack at the age-old...

by Eric Sundermann on January 16, 2013
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Soldier Songs: An Operatic Suite Metallica Might Love - David T. Little goes to war at Pace

The rare show to warrant adjectives like wrenching and harrowing, David T. Little's 60-minute operatic suite Solider Songs is engineered to wrench and harrow--and to dare theatergoers into actually shielding their eyes. Christopher Burchett, a strap...

by Alan Scherstuhl on January 16, 2013
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Turkey Cock, Frankenstein, and Fur Hats: Welcome to Avant-Garde Festival January - A review roundup of shows in Under the Radar, Coil, and more

Remember when January used to be cold? And theatrically moribund? A chill time to hunker down near the radiator and scoff leftover fruitcake? No more. In 2005, Mark Russell founded the Under the Radar festival, a jumble of international experime...

by Alexis Soloski on January 16, 2013
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Midsummer Arrives Midwinter - The Scottish play: David Greig's Edinburgh award-winner hits 42nd Street

If you chanced upon David Greig's Midsummer after a hard day's Fringing, you might think you'd lucked into a gem. It's clever, winningly performed, and has the kind of lightly suspenseful but ultimately sappy rom-com plot--cut with wacky fantasy int...

by Jacob Gallagher-Ross on January 16, 2013