166 stories by "Dan Rubins"
There are pauses, yes, in Infinite Life, but they're far from mere stylistic flourishes.
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Few shows have mastered the varied arts of cinematic recreation quite like this one.
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Once Upon a One More Time is a frivolously delightful entry into the jukebox genre.
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Never before has a boy triumphed more.
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Comer's Tessa wins the case for Suzie Miller's play as urgent, necessary theater.
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Ijames celebrates his characters in all their hammy, juicy humanity.
The post <em>Fat Ham</em> Review: James Ijames's Gay Black <em>Hamlet</em> Speaks to Many on Broa…
Shucked should probably invest in some "Keep the punchlines" pins.
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Sweeney Todd can still shock, even if this production seldom goes for the jugular.
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The Harder They Come deserves a weirder, more surprising stage adaptation.
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Pictures from Home is a frantically verbal adaptation that's not given to subtlety.
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A united community is a powerful force that can be used for healing or destruction.
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These shows range from revitalizing revivals to redemptive restagings of undervalued gems.
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The show's pizzazz may be enough to help it survive in a turbulent Broadway landscape.
The post <em>Some Like It Hot</em> Review: Billy Wilder's Classic Gets a Contemporary Makeo…
Thomas Ostermeier's production reclaims Hamlet, fleetingly but full-heartedly, for all of us.
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Watching the play is squirmingly uncomfortable in a way that reading Hanya Yanagihara's book never is.
The post Red-Hot Savagery: Ivo van Hove's <em>A Little Life</em> at BAM's N…
At its most arresting, american (tele)visions stirs its characters' guiding emotions into a frenzied mixture that matches and mirrors the overwhelming intensity of the on-stage screens.
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If this Richard III has a guiding concept, it's in the dismantling and displacement of Shakespeare's treatment of disability.
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Let's hope Broadway's most racially diverse season will be capped by a ceremony that fully celebrates that sea change.
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Everything about this production is handled with a light, inviting touch.
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Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop nudges the musical theater form in a startling new direction.
The post <em>A Strange Loop</em> Review: A Big, Black, and Queer-Ass Revitalizat…
The omnipresent horror of what we so quickly understand to be happening diminishes the play's proximity to pleasure more than it should.
The post <em>How I Learned to Drive</em> …
By reducing the play's grandeur to the scope of a lightly staged radio play, words become the principal protagonist.
The post <em>Cyrano de Bergerac</em> Review: A Stripped-Down …
In Birthday Candles, tragedy and trauma have been rushed off stage with the ring of another gong and another year gone.
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Tragic timeliness and timelessness doesn't make up for the scrawniness of Richard Greenberg's play.
The post <em>Take Me Out</em> Review: The Pride and Prejudice of Major League …
Even if Help never entirely sheds its essayistic origins, the premise of finding poetry in personal scholarship is consistently compelling.
The post <em>Help</em> Review: Claudia…
