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1. REVIEW: ‘Close Up Space’ fails to amuse
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... stands to reason that every so often they unleash a dud. Such is the wretched case with “Close Up Space,” which opened on Monday at MTC’s 299-seat theater at New York City Center. Newcomer playwright ...

2. ‘My Week With Marilyn’ movie review, trailer: Michelle Williams is memorable
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Monroe’s new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller, dealt with her like a difficult child, and Milton Greene (her business partner in Marilyn Monroe Productions) was desperate to retain control of ‘his’ ...

3. REVIEW: ‘Maple and Vine’ retreats to the 1950s
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... comfortable Eisenhower era. That’s the nifty premise for Jordan Harrison’s intriguing new play “Maple and Vine.” Quite a thoughtful piece, “Maple and Vine” opened Wednesday at Playwrights Horizons and ...

4. REVIEW: Alan Rickman leads a so-what ‘Seminar’
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... most from Leonard’s caustic observations. Leonard becomes sexually involved with one of them, of course. Theresa Rebeck, the playwright, has delivered clever comedies like “The Understudy” and “Mauritius” ...

5. REVIEW: ‘Wild Animals You Should Know’ studies a sociopath
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... of a tarnished golden boy and his clueless dad. If the playwright does not deliver a fully-developed work, he usually manages to hold viewer interest with his quick, often humorous dialogue that is capably ...

6. REVIEW: ‘Blood and Gifts’ dramatizes Afghan conflicts
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... in Washington D.C. with his CIA boss (John Procaccino). In order to humanize these covert chess players, the playwright equips Warnock and several other characters with back stories about their family ...

7. REVIEW: ‘Burning’ mocks artists and their world
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW Guggenheim Award-winner Thomas Bradshaw is a button-pushing playwright whose career has been spent mostly pawing through the muck of racism, ...

8. Queen of the Mist
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Hey check out (and like) an interesting take on the play "Queen of the Mist"(playwright: Michael John LaChiusa) by one of the editors of culture catch, Mr. Reisberg at: http://culturecatch.com/theate ...

9. REVIEW: ‘Fragments’ offers a Samuel Beckett sampler
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

...  Opening on Sunday at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, this admirable hour-long program presents five works that demonstrate the playwright’s genius at transfiguring gloom ‘n’ doom doings into human comedy. ...

10. REVIEW: ‘Venus in Fur’ gets sexy with Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... New York frame as Thomas, a playwright-director, ends a wearying day of auditioning actresses for his dramatization of “Venus in Fur.” Into the rehearsal room crashes the kooky Vanda, a flustered thespian ...

11. REVIEW: ‘All-American’ suggests TV-Land
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... produce “All-American.” After only three seasons, viewers are accustomed to seeing this admirable series present fairly adventurous fare created by newcomer playwrights. The author, Julia Brownell, undoubtedly ...

12. Chinglish
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Hey check out (and like) an interesting take on the play "Chinglish" (by playwright David Henry Hwang) by one of the editors of Culture Catch, Mr. Holtje at: http://culturecatch.com/theater/david-hen ...

13. REVIEW: ‘Other Desert Cities’ burns with emotion
(Entertainment/Movies)

... (Judith Light). The playwright gives these sharply-drawn characters vivid talk and the ensemble makes the emotional most of it. Most of them performed in Lincoln Center Theater’s smashing off-Broadway ...

14. REVIEW: Taste ‘Milk Like Sugar’
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

Inner-city drama on teen pregnancy opens at Playwrights Horizons BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW Hanging around a tattoo parlor, three inner-city teenagers impulsively ...

15. Best puns in the English language
(Life/Style)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Some 20 years ago, I conducted a poll of a bunch of literary people – among them, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, writer Cleveland Amory, critic ...

16. REVIEW: Forget about ‘The Atmosphere of Memory’
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... of Memory,” a bad play by David Bar Katz about a playwright creating a bad play drawn from his bad experiences as a boy. It’s bad all way around, except for enjoyable performances by John Glover and ...

17. REVIEW: ‘Asuncion’ depicts a loser
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... by Manhattan Theatre Club, he also has been trying his hand at writing plays. Eisenberg’s “Asuncion” opened on Thursday at the Cherry Lane Theatre in a world premiere by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater ...

18. REVIEW: 'Phaedra Backwards' at McCarter Theatre is confusing
(Entertainment/Movies)

... legend. Apparently, Euripides, Seneca and later Racine were not enough. Irish playwright Marina Carr decided that a brisk new look at “the back story” was needed. Very brisk—85 minutes. The writing took ...

19. REVIEW: ‘Sons of the Prophet’ proves painfully funny
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... into the playwright’s compassionate look at everyday people struggling with pain and sorrow. Peter DuBois, the director, gives the play a well-nuanced production that easily mingles its serious and comical ...

20. REVIEW: Samuel L. Jackson ascends ‘The Mountaintop’
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... and tickled to meet the great man. They get to talking. He bums cigarettes from her. They share a few swigs from her flask. They talk more. The playwright attempts to humanize King by pointing out ...