But it’s the set that steals the show.
Author Archives: Jack Helbig
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The cleverest part of Bite Size Broadway is the title
It’s all downhill after the Fosse-packed opening number.
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The Woman in Black is a thriller that actually thrills
The two-man cast gets help from the excellent lighting and sound design.
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Drury Lane’s Beauty and the Beast revival is showing its age
An attempt both to transcend repetition and please audiences results in a show that won’t fully satisfy anyone.
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Eclipse Theatre rescues The Dark at the Top of the Stairs from being just another curio
The production deals with a number of social issues without allowing them to upstage the story.
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Northlight Theatre finds the radicalism in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
Kate Hamill’s “collaboration” adjusts the focus and heightens the drama.
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Kristine Thatcher’s The Safe House examines the deeper mysteries of life. Oh, and it’s also funny.
After a bout with cancer, the playwright looks into an uncertain future.
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Sometimes the cast of the Cuckoo’s Theatre Project’s Moby Dick! The Musical hits the right campy notes
But a too-small storefront and singers who can’t do the original score justice crush the humor.
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David Rabe’s Cosmologies, expertly produced by the Gift, keeps you guessing
Is it a two-act hallucination or an alien abduction?
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The one-man show Private Peaceful recreates the hell of World War I
From the same writer who brought you War Horse
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Two make an angry mob in The Lonesome West
Martin McDonagh’s characters are awful people, but they’re always fascinating.
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A small stage makes Mercury Theater’s Pippin great
The young heir’s existential culture feels more relatable close-up.
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A rogue marsupial in the backyard is the least of one family’s problems in Koalas
The play suffers from trying to be about too much.
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In Dear Brutus, J. M. Barrie takes his not-quite-grown-up characters to another sort of Neverland
A strong cast makes a stiff story soar.
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Not even a first-rate cast can save Curve of Departure
The characters are well drawn, but the story isn’t all that compelling.