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David Finkle

October 16, 2019 9:45 pm

Forbidden Broadway The Next Generation: Musical Comedy Takes It on the Chin

★★★★☆ Gerard Alessandrini is back with his usually delectable vengeance

October 15, 2019 9:00 pm

The Rose Tattoo: Tennessee Williams’ Rose Isn’t a Rose Isn’t a Rose

★★★☆☆ Director Trip Cullman takes the work, starring Marisa Tomei, to be only a comedy, but it’s more than that

October 14, 2019 4:01 pm

The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter: The Decline Rises

★★★★☆ The 1965 Ben Bagley revue well treated by director Pamela Hunt, with Lee Roy Reams

October 11, 2019 11:00 am

Terra Firma: Sally Hammond’s Comedy(?) Not on Firm Ground

★★☆☆☆ The Coop’s introductory production lacks substance, wastes the marvelous Andrus Nichols

October 8, 2019 8:30 pm

All My Fathers: Sometimes You Can Go Home But Maybe Shouldn’t

★★★☆☆ Paul David Young’s drama eventually waxes metatheatrical to no heavy benefit

October 7, 2019 9:21 pm

The Wrong Man: How Wrong a Wrong Man Can Go in Song and Dance

★★★☆☆ Ross Golan’s original musical looks at injustice but not with sufficient insight

October 6, 2019 7:30 pm

Round Table: King Arthur Sort of Remembered Then and Now

★★★☆☆ Liba Vaynberg’s (autobiographical?) play views troubled romance during two disparate eras

October 4, 2019 6:42 pm

The New Englanders: Mixed-Race Gay Couple with Daughter Clash

★★★☆☆ Jeff Augustin’s play doesn’t quite get to the bottom of a family’s incipient dysfunction

September 13, 2019 6:33 pm

Margaret Trudeau: Certain Woman of an Age: Former First Lady Tells All

★★★☆☆ How the onetime headline grabber deals with bipolar disorder and other exigencies

September 12, 2019 7:15 pm

Only Yesterday: John Lennon and Paul McCartney Caught in the Rain

★★★★☆ Fans will love what Bob Stevens imagines two Beatles get up to on a documented day off

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