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David Finkle

September 19, 2022 9:30 pm

This Beautiful Future: Not So Beautiful Future for World War II Love Story

★★☆☆☆ German Soldier-French Woman lovers, with Austin Pendleton, Angelina Fiordellisi back-up singing

September 15, 2022 8:59 pm

Remember This: A Highly Memorable Holocaust Message

★★★★☆ A Polish World War II hero tells his painful story, David Strathairn does the fine acting

September 14, 2022 8:00 pm

Jasper: A Jarring Drama of Parents With Severely Compromised Son

★★★☆☆ A devoted yet at-odds couple seen only tentatively dealing with diversity

September 10, 2022 8:00 pm

The Memory Exam: A Fantasy That Tests Credulity More than Memory

★★☆☆☆ A somewhat trying 90-minuter in which characters must try to remember, like it or not

September 8, 2022 9:00 pm

Strings Attached: Science, Love, Jealousy in an Uneasily Tied Package

★★☆☆☆ Science as a cogent subject for our time, handled with only mild success

September 4, 2022 6:28 pm

Kinky Boots: The Lauper-Feinstein Tuner Kicks Up its Heels Off-Broadway

★★★★☆ The hit musical returns in full Broadway strength, under Jerry Mitchell’s guiding hand

August 31, 2022 7:00 pm

Once Upon a (korean) Time: Marvelous Stories Told by Marvelous Tellers

★★★★☆ Bold new playwright Daniel K. Isaacs tells stories, with beauty

August 29, 2022 7:00 pm

Two Jews, Talking: Exactly, Mildly What the Title Promises

★★★☆☆ Hal Linden and Bernie Kopell in a 60-minute-plus, two-part comedy

August 1, 2022 8:30 pm

The Nosebleed: Cheerful Ritualistic Play About Grief, Of All Things

★★★★☆ Aya Ogawa writes, directs and performs in new play at LCT3’s rooftop theater

August 1, 2022 8:00 pm

The Butcher Boy: Dark New Musical About Psychotic Young Man

★★★☆☆ Princeton senior Asher Muldoon adapts 1992 Patrick McCabe novel, Ciarán O’Reilly directs, Barry McNabb choreographs

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