By Allen Ellenzweig
In this thoughtful double character study, and in the film’s examination of the personal costs of a draconian penal system, Great Freedom delivers not a neat Hollywood ending but a painful reflection on how an unyielding social order thwarts the human spirit.
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The Other Day A play by Mark Jason Williams Loretta Michael Productions Theater at the 14th Street Y THE OTHER DAY is a play that grows on you—in…More
IT WAS EITHER kismet or dumb luck that the original production of The Boys in the Bandappeared Off-Broadway in 1968, the year before the Stonewall Riots. Everyoneof note seemed…More
Torch Song by Harvey Fierstein Produced by 2nd Stage Theatre IT IS THE SEASON of gay revivals on Broadway and Off, and the latest is Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song, formerly…More
Butterfly by David Henry Hwang At the Cort Theatre, New York City THE BROADWAY revival of David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly comes at a propitious moment: the Imperialist…More
Indecent A play by Paula Vogel Directed by Rebecca Taichman Cort Theatre, NYC PAULA VOGEL, the Pulitzer-prize winning dramatist of How I Learned to Drive, has again collaborated with…More
Afterglow is based in part on S. Asher Gelman’s own experience with an extra-marital relationship, shows that he can write strong individual scenes for his actors that have the ring of truth.
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In keeping with its name, Gently Down the Stream proceeds at a leisurely pace, but Gabriel Ebert’s hyperactive Rufus keeps the emotional narrative percolating. In the latter third of the play, the arrival of Harry as an unguarded, naïve artist seems to bring us right up to the present. But …
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WILLIAM FINN’S FALSETTOS, the AIDS-era musical now revived on Broadway, may be viewed by some as an odd period piece, by others as an operatic pastiche, a manipulative emotion-fest, or…More
IN SUMMERTIME (La belle saison), screenwriter–director Catherine Corsini takes us to the halcyon days of early 1970s French feminism, when a small action cell of women meets to plot high-spirited…More
