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David Finkle

January 26, 2025 8:00 pm

Beckett Briefs: The 20th-Century Master Served Masterfully

★★★★☆ Krapp’s Last Tape, Not I, Play, with F. Murray Abraham, Roger Dominic Casey, Kate Forbes, Sarah Street, Ciarán O’Reilly directing

January 15, 2025 8:00 pm

Show/Boat: A River: The Seminal, Historical Classic Severely Landlocked

★☆☆☆☆ Director/adaptor David Herskovits misses the mark with Kern/Hammerstein/Ferber classic

December 22, 2024 7:57 pm

All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich — Hit & Miss Revue

★★★☆☆ John Mulaney, Fred Armisen, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Richard Kind in an amusing evening

December 17, 2024 11:51 pm

A Guide for the Homesick: 2 Actors, 4 Characters, 1 Misguided Script

★★☆☆☆ Actors McKinley Belcher III, Uly Schlesinger, director Shira Milikowsky distinguish Ken Urban’s confusing drama

November 21, 2024 8:57 pm

Death Becomes Her: 1992 Streep-Hawn Film Musicalized, Unbecomingly

★★☆☆☆ Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard are the contentious bffs, with Christopher Gattelli directing-choreographing

November 21, 2024 8:53 pm

The Blood Quilt: Katori Hall’s Beautifully Stitched Sisters Play

★★★★☆ Lileana Blain-Cruz directs a highly proficient cast hardly upstaged by a series of awesome quilts

November 14, 2024 8:57 pm

King Lear: Kenneth Branagh Brings a Revival For Our Time, Sorta

★★★☆☆ Trimmed to two hours, the classic is directed by Branagh, Rob Ashford and Lucy Skilbeck with a young cast

November 13, 2024 8:00 pm

Mama I’m a Big Girl Now!: Bundy, Butler & Winokur Celebrate with Love

★★★★☆ The Broadway vets cleverly relive their related on-stage and off-stage lives

November 11, 2024 8:55 pm

A Wonderful World: Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful Noteworthy World

★★★★☆ James Monroe Iglehart stars in a tribute to one of the true 20th-century jazz greats

November 8, 2024 9:58 pm

Gatz: Fitzgerald Classic Word-for-Word from Elevator Repair Service

★★★★☆ John Collins directs, Scott Shepherd narrates, with some past and some new cast members

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