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David Finkle

May 12, 2022 6:53 pm

The Vagrant Trilogy: Vivid Lives of a Conflicted Palestinian Poetry Scholar

★★★★☆ Mona Mansour’s three-acter, directed by Mark Wing-Davey, with a vibrantly versatile six-member cast

May 8, 2022 10:00 pm

Wedding Band: Alice Childress’ Play on Racist Themes Breathtakingly Revived

★★★★☆ Awoye Timpo directs a superb cast, featuring Brittany Bradford and Thomas Sadoski as a mixed-race couple

May 3, 2022 9:00 pm

Wish You Were Here: Women Talk Freely as Friendships Threaten to Founder

★★★★☆ Sanaz Toossi writes perceptively, as Gaye Taylor Upchurch directs fa cast of five, Marjan Neshat among them

April 29, 2022 3:54 pm

Macbeth: Loud Sound, Intermittent Fury, Signifying Nothing

★☆☆☆☆ Daniel Craig, Ruth Negga and director Sam Gold try Shakespeare

April 27, 2022 9:51 pm

Mr. Saturday Night: Billy Crystal Musicalized Vehicle Runs Smoothly Enough

★★★☆☆ The comedian adapts his flick hit with co-writers Ganz and Mandel, Brown and Green songs added, and Rando direction

April 27, 2022 6:09 pm

POTUS: Foul-Mouthed Women on Comedy Rampage

★★★☆☆ Selina Fillinger writes a laugh-getter, Susan Stroman directs, Julie White, Lea DeLaria, Rachel Dratch et al amuse

April 24, 2022 9:54 pm

Funny Girl: Beanie Feldstein Easy-Peasy Proves She’s a Funny Girl

★★★★☆ Michael Mayer directs the revived Styne-Merrill-Isobel Lennart tuner with Ramin Karimloo, Jane Lynch, Jared Grimes

April 20, 2022 8:54 pm

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf: Enuf, and More

★★★★★ Ntozake Shange’s gloriously mad poems, directed by Camille A. Brown with a colorful seven-women cast

April 19, 2022 8:54 pm

How I Learned to Drive: Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer-Prize-Winner Returns in Highest Gear

★★★★★ Original stars Mary Louise Parker and David Morse, and director Mark Brokaw resume their assignments

April 14, 2022 9:54 pm

American Buffalo: David Mamet’s Classic Retains Its Classic Status

★★★★☆ Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, Darren Criss, directed by Neill Pepe, as charismatic befuddled losers

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