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“Informed Consent” at Primary Stages at the Duke on 42nd (Closed Sunday September 13, 2015)

August 31, 2015 | Off-Broadway > | Tags: , ,

“A comprehensive movement toward informed consent began after World War II with the 1947 Nuremberg trials. In these war trials, it was revealed that physicians conducted abhorrent medical research experiments on concentration camp prisoners. The research included human experimentation with germ warfare, freezing individuals to learn what temperature kills individuals most effectively, and many more horrifying research trials.” (Encyclopedia of…

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“Sense of an Ending” at 59E59 Theaters (Closed Sunday September 6, 2015)

August 27, 2015 | days of, days of rage theatre, hamlet, Off-Broadway, sense and > | Tags: ,

“Charles, we must speak directly. I know that your career is not what it was because of the scandal. You were the young star and now all that is changing thanks to this problem. I will not let these nuns go free.” (Paul) Theatre-goers in New York City have the opportunity to see Ken Urban’s haunting “Sense of an Ending”…

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“Holden” at the Ice Factory Festival 2015 at the New Ohio Theater (Closed Saturday August 8, 2015)

August 6, 2015 | Off-Broadway, the weir > | Tags: ,

“It’s like all sandwiched together. And so they tesser to this other planet and Ms. Whatsit turns into this weird horse with wings kind of thing, and the earth from where they look far off is half under the power of this Black Thing.” (Peggy to Salinger) Margaret (Peggy) Salinger, daughter of J. D. Salinger, is a character in Anisa…

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“Summer Shorts 2015” – Series B at 59E59 Theaters (Closed Saturday August 29, 2015)

August 5, 2015 | girlfriend, maybe happy, Off-Broadway, trapped > | Tags: , , , ,

“Unstuck” – Written by Lucy Thurber and Directed by Laura Savia The audience does not know exactly how stuck Pete (played with delicious undercurrents of sadness by Alfredo Narcisco) is until his girlfriend Deirdre (played with restorative emotional strength by KK Moggie) comes home and finds Pete sleeping on the couch instead of getting out of the house as he…

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“the dreamer examines his pillow” at the Attic Theater Company at the Flea Theater (Closed Saturday August 15, 2015)

August 1, 2015 | Off-Broadway > | Tags: , ,

“So you’re a comfort to me. lf there was somebody who was like that for you, somebody who was like you the way you used ta be before you were the way you are now, we could probably draw a straight line through the three of us and sec where we’re goin.” (Dad) That affirmation by Donna’s (played with explosive…

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“Death of the Persian Prince” at the Midtown International Theatre Festival at the Davenport Black Box Theater (Closed on Sunday July 26, 2015)

July 31, 2015 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, slave play > | Tags: , ,

“Communism, like General Motors, is people.” The above is an important reminder shared by a psychology professor to this reviewer many years ago. A reminder that people should always be more important than politics or social, political, and economic ideologies. Unfortunately, that truth seems difficult for humankind to grasp or achieve globally. After the Holocaust, humanity vowed to never let…

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“The Fairer Sex at Theatre Row (Closed August 2, 2015)

July 30, 2015 | Off-Broadway > | Tags: ,

Imagine a world where women are free of sexual violence, oppression, and make the same, if not more, money than men. Finally, in a stunning humanistic dark comedy, “The Fairer Sex” presented by Between Us Productions, and written by Sander Gusinow, this women-run reality is featured. Following the aftermath of a rebellion, in which women fought back against men, and…

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“Karaoke Bacchae” at the Ice Factory Festival at the New Ohio Theatre (Closed August 8, 2015)

July 28, 2015 | Off-Broadway > | Tags: ,

“Theatre without alcohol is a museum piece” once quipped Bertolt Brecht. If that’s the case, Meta-Phy Ed’s “Karaoke Bacchae” belongs as far away from MoMA as humanly possible. A drunk, delirious adaptation for Euripides’s ‘The Bacchae’ set in a Karaoke Bar, writer/director Jesse Freedman delivers an enjoyable, if decidedly incoherent dance theatre piece that’s heavy on fun and glamor. For…

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“Summer Shorts” – Series A at 59E59 Theaters (Closed Saturday August 29, 2015)

July 27, 2015 | Off-Broadway, the prom, waitress > | Tags:

“10K” Written and directed by Neil LaBute In “10 K” a Man (played with a delicious passive coyness by J.J. Kandel) and a Woman (played with an equally delicious aggressive coyness by Clea Alsip) meet at a suburban (“Whispering Pines”) park and decide (after a good stretch) to jog together. Immediately, both disclose the less-than-satisfying natures of their married-with-children statuses….

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“Threesome” at 59E59 Theaters (Closed Sunday August 23, 2015)

July 24, 2015 | be more chill, Off-Broadway > | Tags:

“After great pain a formal feeling comes–/The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs;/ This is the hour of lead/Remembered if outlived,/As freezing persons recollect the snow–/First chill, then stupor, then the letting go.” (Emily Dickinson, 372) On a visit to Cairo, Egyptian-American Leila (played with a passionate intensity by Alia Attallah) suffered great pain on two occasions. The assault in a…

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