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Nobody knows the troubles they’ve seen. Actually — too many did — but attention is currently being paid, in a pair of exquisite, haunting plays, to the residues of discrimination and horrific times. Equally wrenching in their own right, the new revival of Donald Margulies 1995 exploration of the fallout from the Holocaust on a still dysfunctional family decades later, and Stephen Stahl’s heartbreaking — but also musically magical tale of the tragically troubled life of legendary singer Billie Holiday are memorable must-see theater.
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Arlene Epstein
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10/29/13
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Theater through the ages has put a chilling close-up camera on the sad truth that the family ties that bond too often wound and choke. Two magnificent plays currently lighting up the new theater season will haunt your heart.
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Arlene Epstein
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10/15/13
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More and more current theater reflects the crises technological progress has created. But equally, in hark-backs to Shakespeare and Beckett and other iconic observers of human nature — Horton Foote, William Inge and their ilk, also represented in revivals this season — the comforting fact is that humanity has somehow persevered despite our selfish, self-serving often animalistic behavior.
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Arlene Epstein
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10/2/13
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If the news isn’t sobering enough, the new theater season is, to date, long on brilliant performances, but also on messages that rarely warm the heart. Much of the humor is bleak to black.
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Arlene Epstein
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9/25/13
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A pair of plays have just opened that pose intriguing questions about what fate may have in store for each of us that changes the rules of thriving. And in a third audacious work, Anne Washburn’s fable “Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play” we’ll review next week, adds “surviving” to that equation.
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Arlene Epstein
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9/20/13
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In golf it’s said the toughest hole to play is the space between your ears. That truth was illustrated with unfortunate results for a handful of the finest professional golfers in the world in last …
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Arlene Epstein
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6/24/10
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