James Macdonald

Off-Broadway Review: “Infinite Life” at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater (Through Saturday, October 14, 2023)

Five women in their forties to seventies and one man in his forties gather at a clinic two hours north of San Francisco to continue to deal with their pain. The regimen includes fasting and drinking a variety of beverages. Eileen (Marylouise Burke) is hungry and tired. Elaine (Brenda Pressley) has osteoporosis. Ginnie (Kristine Nielsen) has “auto-immune thyroid stuff but…

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Broadway Review: “The Children” at Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

“Yes exactly. I would’ve felt like a traitor. Besides, retired people are like nuclear power stations. We like to live by the sea.” – Hazel to Rose The success of “The Children,” currently playing at Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, is primarily the result of playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s effective and judicious use of tropes, particularly the…

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