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Off-Broadway Review: The Civilians “The Unbelieving” at 59E59 Theaters (Closed Saturday, November 19, 2022)

Marin Gazzaniga’s “The Unbelieving” is based on select interviews from the 2013 book “Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind” by Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola. The authors interview clergy from various denominations who have been grappling with their loss of faith in the divine and their fears of being hypocritical by not sharing their unbelief with their congregations/adherents….

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Off-Broadway Review: Chatillion Stage Company’s “Tech Support” at 59E59 Theaters

Chatillion Stage Company’s “Tech Support,” currently running at 59E59 Theaters, begins with the play’s protagonist Pamela Stark (Margot White) frantically pacing around in her West Village well-appointed apartment as she remains on hold waiting for tech support for her malfunctioning printer. Pamela deals in antique books and when she finally reaches tech support, she tells Chip, “I need to pack…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Hal & Bee” at 59E59 Theaters

What are two aging ex-hippies supposed to do when the socio-political environment around them escalates its full-frontal assault on the values they espoused and fought so passionately for in the sixties and seventies? Not only do they continue to feel “stalked” by “corporate bastards” like the cable company, but they are about to be evicted from their rent-controlled apartment on…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story” Weaves Magic at 59E59 Theaters

Steeped in tradition, a musical commentary relevant to the current socio-political atmosphere, and an old tale told with songs that echo the poets of the past and the spoken word of the present, are the skeleton of “Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story,” the Klezmer-folk music-theater hybrid now playing at 59E59 Theaters. The Wanderer (a captivating Ben Caplan) is the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Mad Ones” at 59E59 Theaters

November 29, 2017 | Off-Broadway, the mad ones musica; > | "The Mad Ones", 59E59, 59E59 Theaters, Brian Lowdermilk, Emma Hunton, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Joseph Verlezza, Kait Kerrigan, Krystina Alabado, Leah Hocking, Prospect Theater Company, Richard Termine, Stephen Brackett

The New York premiere of the not-so-new musical “The Mad Ones” is making its New York premiere and being presented by Prospect Theater Company at 59E59 theaters. It is a coming of age story that is propelled by the Jack Kerouac’s iconic 1957 novel “On the Road” but laden with clichés, superfluous situations and a skimpy script that tries to…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Occupied Territories” at 59E59 Theaters

One of the territories occupied in Nancy Bannon and Mollye Maxner’s “Occupied Territories,” currently running at 59E59 Theaters, is the Jungle of Vietnam in 1967 during what seemed at the time to be an interminable and unpopular war. In the revival of the Theater Alliance’s 2015 play, that war appears as a haunting memory for Jude (Nancy Bannon) and her…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Violin” Plays Well at 59E59 Theaters

“Okay. Some day we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house, and a couple of acres and a cow and some pigs and . . . And live off the fat of the land! And have rabbits. Well, we’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens.” – George in “Of Mice…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Small World” at 59E59 Theaters

September 25, 2017 | harmony, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, the nap > | "Fantasia", "The Rite of Spring", “Small World”, 59E59, 59E59 Theaters, Carol Rosegg, Christine Watanabe, Frederick Stroppel, Igor Stravinsky, James Fenton, Joe Brancato, Mark Shanahan, Michael Palmer, Patricia Doherty, Penguin Rep, Stephen D'Ambrose, Walt Disney, William Neal

“See, this is the crux of the matter. We have different aesthetic touchstones. I am drawn to characters like Apollo, Persephone, Oedipus Rex. You prefer Jiminy Cricket – Bambi – Goofy. My Pluto lives in Hades, yours lives in a doghouse. You are living in some silly parallel universe, of which I want no part.” – Igor If the theme…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Charolais” at 59E59 Theaters

“I hate that . . . cow. I hate her soft face and her solid head and her dirty yellow tag against your sweaty neck like cheap gold earrings.” – Siobhan There has been a fracas in farmer Jimmy’s shed that brings together three females in an unexpected display of power, principle, and panache. A battle ensues that leaves Siobhan’s…

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Off-Broadway Review: Bated Breath Theatre Company’s “Beneath the Gavel” at 59E59 Theaters

When one visits an art museum and stands in front of a painting – let us say Jeff Koons’s “Woman in Tub” – one reacts in one of perhaps three ways: the visitor “likes, just likes it” and snaps a digital image and moves on to another contemporary artist; the visitor pauses for some time and examines the work, deciding…

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