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Award Announcement: The Outer Critics Circle 71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominees

April 26, 2022 | Broadway, caroline, hangmen, kimberly, lehman, News, Off-Broadway, pass over, sf gate theatre reviews, the lehman >

Award Announcement: The Outer Critics Circle 71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominees By David Roberts Theatre Reviews Limited The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers and national publications, are pleased to announce the nominees for the 71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the 2021-2022 Broadway and Off-Broadway season….

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Broadway Review: “Caroline, or Change” at Roundabout’s Studio 54 (Closed Sunday January 9, 2022)

Racism, sexism, economic disparity, and stagnation roil beneath the surface Caroline Thibodeaux’s (an embattled yet resilient Sharon B Clarke) deep unhappiness, disappointment, and resistance to change in Tony Kushner’s “Caroline, or Change.” Currently enjoying a successful revival at Roundabout’s Studio 54, the Kushner/Tesori musical focuses on Caroline’s long days in the Louisiana “under water” basement of the Gellman family. “Sixteen…

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Broadway Review: “Linda Vista” at Second Stage Theater’s Helen Hayes Theater

October 23, 2019 | Broadway, caroline > | "Linda Vista", Caroline Neff, Chantal Thuy, Cora Vander Broek, Dexter Bullard, Helen Hayes Theater, Ian Barford, Jim True-Frost, Joan Marcus, Laura Bauer, Marcus Doshi, Richard Woodbury, Sally Murphy, Second Stage Theater, Telsey + Company, Todd Rosenthal, Tracy Letts, Troy West

The sharp and witty dialogue of the latest dramedy penned by playwright Tracy Letts is foreshadowed by the title “Linda Vista” which means “pretty view” in Spanish. The midlife crisis of a bitter fifty-year-old, divorced, white male, who seems to have an insatiable libido and absolutely no respect for women – preferring to exhibit his unbridled male testosterone – is…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Curvy Widow” at the Westside Theatre

After Bobby’s (Nancy Opel) writer husband Jim (Ken Land) collapses dead on top of his typewriter, she begins to deal with her loss facing “half a life” and realizing Jim has been “all [she’s] ever known.” No longer “in control,” Bobby begins to ask important questions: “Is it time to make choices yet? Start again at my age?” Or is…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Nathan the Wise” at Classic Stage Company

April 13, 2016 | caroline, Off-Broadway, pride and prejudice > | Classic Stage Company

The Jerusalem of 1192 in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s “Nathan the Wise,” currently running at Classic Stage Company, is not unlike the Jerusalem of the present: still a divided city with the three major world religions vying for supremacy and claiming with pride a unique claim on being the “sole purveyors of divine revelation.” The Templar (Stark Sands) admonishes Nathan (F….

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“I and You” at 59E59 Theaters (Closed Sunday February 28, 2016)

January 28, 2016 | caroline, Off-Broadway > | "I and You", 59E59 Theaters, Lauren Gunderson

“We two, how long we were fool’d,/Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes,/We are Nature, long have we been absent, but now we return./We have voided all but freedom and all but our joy.” Walt Whitman, “Leaves of Grass” After receiving clearance from Caroline’s (Kayla Ferguson) mother, high school classmate Anthony (Reggie D. White) shows up in Caroline’s bedroom…

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“Puzzle the Will” at the Midtown International Theatre Festival at the Davenport Theatre (Closed Sunday August 2, 2015)

July 14, 2015 | caroline, hamlet, Midtown International Theatre > | Midtown International Theatre

“Who would fardels bear,/To grunt and sweat under a weary life,/But that the dread of something after death,/The undiscovered country, from whose bourn/No traveller returns, puzzles the will,/And makes us rather bear those ills we have/Than fly to others that we know not of?” – William Shakespeare, “Hamlet,” Act III, Scene I “Puzzle the Will” (part of Hamlet’s epic soliloquy…

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