Silver Spoon
Nora Theatre Co.
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This new show by Amy Merrill “tells an unusually political story” for a romantic musical, said the Boston Herald. Merrill’s tale of an affair between two 1960s radicals, one of whom happens to be a secret heiress, is enhanced by songs from Si Kahn, and it “grabs you with its witty edge” from the start.
Cradle and All
Manhattan Theater Club
New York, (212) 581-1212
A baby’s cry is both “seductive music” and “torture from the depths of hell” in Daniel Goldfarb’s new play, said The New York Times. Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller portray a regret-burdened childless couple in the first act and frazzled new parents in the second. Both scenarios are played with “sympathetic humor.”
Nazi Hunter—Simon Wiesenthal
Theatre 40
Beverly Hills, (310) 364-3606
Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal earned the nickname “the Jewish James Bond” for tracking down more than 1,000 Nazi fugitives, said the Los Angeles Times. But Tom Dugan’s one-man show “doesn’t shy away from his subject’s flaws,” even while telling gripping stories of Wiesenthal’s global hunt for high-level war criminals.
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If/Thenfeature Tony-winning Idina Menzel “looks and sounds sensational” in a role tailored to her talents.
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Rocky
feature It’s a wonder that this Rocky ever reaches the top of the steps.
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Love and Information
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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The Bridges of Madison County
feature Jason Robert Brown’s “richly melodic” score is “one of Broadway’s best in the last decade.”
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Outside Mullingar
feature John Patrick Shanley’s “charmer of a play” isn’t for cynics.
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The Night Alive
feature Conor McPherson “has a singular gift for making the ordinary glow with an extra dimension.”
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No Man’s Land
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.