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Off-Broadway Review: “You Will Get Sick” at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre (Closed Sunday, December 11, 2022)

You will get sick. It happens. You do not know why. Often you do not want to tell anyone you are sick. Perhaps you might even pay someone to talk to you about your illness. Yet after all that, you still might die. And you are not alone. Rabbi Harold S. Kushner wrote about “When Bad Things Happen to Good…

Off-Broadway Review: Primary Stages’ “On That Day in Amsterdam at 59E59 Theaters (Through Sunday, September 4, 2022)

Promising a touching love story following a one-nightstand encounter in Amsterdam, Clarence Coo’s “On That Day in Amsterdam” (currently on at 59E59 Theaters) delivers instead a convoluted story of risk, disenfranchisement, immigration policy, art history, and duplicity that has little to do with the narrative’s main characters. This is unfortunate given the actors are outstanding, the direction first-rate, and the…