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Doctor Atomic
Civic Opera House, (312) 332-2244
This is the Chicago debut of composer John Adams’ 2005 opera about the Manhattan Project, said Hedy Weiss in the Chicago Sun-Times. Adams’ score pulses with beautiful passages, and director and librettist Peter Sellars “has infused the opera with references beyond physics,” grounding the characters firmly in the intellectual and historical currents of the 1940s.
New York
Yellowface
Public Theater (212) 967-7555
Playwright David Henry Hwang has explored racial identity in award-winning dramas such as M. Butterfly, said Marilyn Stasio in Variety. But who knew he was “such a funny guy?” In this account of Hwang’s personal campaign against the practice of casting white actors in Asian roles, he wittily exposes the dangers of even well-intentioned racial rhetoric.
Los Angeles
Anything
Elephant Theatre, Hollywood; (323) 960-4410
Tim McNeil’s “bristly valentine to the unpredictability of the human heart” peeks into two broken lives, said F. Kathleen Foley in the Los Angeles Times. McNeil himself stars as the emotionally scarred Angeleno who takes up with Louis Jacobs’ transvestite prostitute. Both “find purpose—and ultimately salvation—in their unlikely new romance.”
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Weapons: Julia Garner stars in 'hyper-eerie' psychological thrillerThe Week Recommends Zach Cregger's 'top notch' new film opens with 17 children disappearing at exactly the same time
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Freakier Friday: Lohan and Curtis reunite for 'uneven' but 'endearing' sequelThe Week Recommends Mother-and-daughter comedy returns with four characters switching bodies
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Al fresco art: the UK's best sculpture parksThe Week Recommends Soak up the scenery with a stroll through these open-air galleries
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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.