Love and Money
Steep Theatre Co., Chicago
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Money worries are certainly topical, but Dennis Kelly’s “dark, angry,” brilliant new play is a “wake-up call” for anyone being swallowed by them, said the Chicago Sun-Times. In a series of loosely linked scenes, Kelly’s characters allow their acquisitive instincts to corrupt their better impulses. Their blindness might just “shake your soul.”
Untitled Feminist Show
Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York
(212) 352-3101
Young Jean Lee’s nearly wordless, completely clothes-free show is “one of the more moving and imaginative works” to be staged in years, said The New Yorker. Through dance and a few props, the all-female, six-member cast generates a powerful commentary on gender roles.
The North Plan
Portland Center Stage, Portland, Ore.
(503) 445-3700
A foul-mouthed woman protesting a DUI charge becomes an “unlikely political-theater heroine” in Jason Wells’s play, said the Portland Oregonian. Wells’s dystopian tale raises serious issues about dissent. But what makes it a threat to public order is that the entire night’s a “laugh riot.”
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feature Leave it to Caryl Churchill to create a play that “so ingeniously mirrors our age of the splintered attention span.”
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feature Conor McPherson “has a singular gift for making the ordinary glow with an extra dimension.”
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feature The futility of all conversation has been, paradoxically, the subject of “some of the best dialogue ever written.”
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The Commons of Pensacola
feature Stage and screen actress Amanda Peet's playwriting debut is a “witty and affecting” domestic drama.