★★★★☆ Matthew Lombardo’s excellent two-hander speaks volumes about life, liberty and the often impossible pursuit of happiness
Liberation: A Beautifully Evocative Look at The Cause, Circa 1970
★★★★☆ Bess Wohl raises our consciousness with her engrossing play about the Liberation movement and the women who started it.
The Antiquities: We Are the Dinosaurs Now
★★★★☆ Jordan Harrison spins an intriguingly haunting tale about the human experiment gone awry.
Kowalski: How Brando Became the Brute
★★★★☆ Fascinating look behind the curtain of Tennessee Williams masterpiece when Brando almost didn’t get the role.
English: Pulitzer-Winning Play Translates Well on Broadway
★★★★☆ Playwright Sanaz Toossi schools us on what it means to be a stranger in a strange language
Grandiloquent: Comedian Gary Gulman gets up close and personal
★★★★☆ Gulman plies his unique comedic talents to describe how he survived a painful childhood
Merchant of Venice: A Comedy of Too Many Errors
★★☆☆☆ T.R. Knight stars in the Arlekin Players Theatre’s adaptation of the Shakespeare classic played as a cable TV access program.
Burnout Paradise: Joy In Watching Others Sweat
★★★★☆ Four masochistic actors from Australia knock themselves out so we don’t have to.
A Wonderful World: You’re Lookin’ Swell, Satchmo
★★★★☆ Bio-musical about the late great jazzman hits the right notes
Bad Kreyòl: Good Writing About a Culture Clash in Haiti
★★★★☆ Dominique Morisseau tells us it’s easy to get lost in translation when speaking the language of Haiti with an American accent.