Author: Steven Morris

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Read more about the article Paul Birchall’s Got it Covered: Bye Bye Banshee & Stage Raw ‘Visualizes the Invisible’

Paul Birchall’s Got it Covered: Bye Bye Banshee & Stage Raw ‘Visualizes the Invisible’

Although the note goes on to assure us that the people who make up Theatre Banshee will continue to create, it is not as clear where this will happen. I also can’t say this is the first time that a well respected theater company has been forced to move because a neighborhood is becoming gentrified due, in great part, to the existence of the very theater company that now can’t afford the rent. -- BY PAUL BIRCHALL

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Read more about the article Straight White Men; Outside Mullingar

Straight White Men; Outside Mullingar

The perquisites of privilege are so inescapably fulsome and intrinsically unfair, and so inadequately copped to, that it may just be impossible for such men to behave well enough in a world that favors us so reflexively to the detriment of the validity and opportunity of everyone else. Lee milks the hapless absurdity of this existential quandary both for derisive laughs and a scintilla of poignant pathos. — BY MYRON MEISEL

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Read more about the article Hamletmachine: The Arab Spring; Far Away; Love and Information; The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek; Viva La Mamma!

Hamletmachine: The Arab Spring; Far Away; Love and Information; The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek; Viva La Mamma!

In her own prolix and pixilated way, Churchill achieves a mastery of economic tone. By contrast, in his immensely satisfying latest play, The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, Athol Fugard, perhaps our greatest living playwright, condenses his dramatic gestures beyond the merely epigrammatic into concentrated essences. -- BY MYRON MEISEL

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Read more about the article Don Shirley, Hamlet, Hamletmachine, Inhale Harmonica and Holiday Parties

Don Shirley, Hamlet, Hamletmachine, Inhale Harmonica and Holiday Parties

If we’re motivated by fear rather than a more stoic determination, what then becomes the quality of our lives? If we employ the very tactics used by terrorists, when those very tactics assail the values we hold dear, then what becomes the quality of our lives? --BY STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS

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