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Sandra Oh and a Cast of Downtown All-Stars Illuminate a Period Thriller
Early in “The Welkin,” the British playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s period thriller, now at the Linda Gross Theatre, a dozen women…
Great Migrations, in Two Plays
To appreciate “Home,” Samm-Art Williams’s celebrated play from 1979, is, in part, to be drawn back in time, to the…
Three London Shows Put a New Spin on Old Classics
When I was in London recently, walking down near Cheapside, north of the Thames, I went into the small museum…
The Chilling Truth Pictured in “Here There Are Blueberries”
There’s something awful about a lost picture. Maybe it’s because of a disparity between your original hope and the result:…
Three Broadway Shows Put Motherhood in the Spotlight
Classic American drama is haunted by monstrous mothers. Vain, vampiric mamas prowl through plays from Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie”…
“Stereophonic” and “Cabaret” Turn Up the Volume on Broadway
When “Stereophonic,” David Adjmi’s magnum opus about a nineteen-seventies rock band recording an album, débuted last year, at Playwrights Horizons,…