The same traditions that connect us to our past can limit us in the present. In rural Afghanistan, wealthy men still practice the ancient custom of bacha baz, where men purchase poor boys from their …
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5/27/17
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Sometimes it only takes two performers to send a powerful message.
Set some time in the future, Building The Wall presents a dire warning about the future of the …
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5/25/17
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Review by Elyse Trevers
After watching the spirited musical version of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I began to wonder if author Roald Dahl actually liked children. As …
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5/16/17
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A Review by Elyse TreversThe theory is that everyone is connected to everyone else through a maximum of six people. I know someone who knows someone who knows Barack Obama or Emmanuel Macon, the …
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5/10/17
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Billy Joel? Rolling Stones? Metallica? It felt like a typical rock concert with the audience up on its feet cheering wildly. The only thing missing was cigarette lighters and cell-phone lights waving …
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5/9/17
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The door closing was a “shot heard round the world.” Audiences were shocked as Nora Helmer leaves her husband and children in Ibsen’s classic, A Doll’s House …
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5/5/17
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Anastasia, a new musical, with music by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, is based on the 1956 movie starring Yul Brynner and Ingrid Bergman. The story tells of a young girl with amnesia who might be …
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5/2/17
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Is there really such a thing as deja vu? What if you had to relive one day over and over again forever? That’s the plight of Phil Connors, a sarcastic urban …
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4/30/17
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Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Paula Vogel has finally made it to Broadway. After a sold-out, acclaimed run at The Vineyard, her play Indecent has opened at The Cort …
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4/26/17
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Far too often, a woman’s role in a play is either that of villainess or victim. The new revival of Lillian Hellman’s ‘The Little Foxes’ features two meaty women’s roles, one of each. Two of …
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4/26/17
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