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You Can't Take It With You
(Everyman)
Reviewed by Li Cornfeld
May 9, 2008
Medieval morality plays, instructive texts intended to convince audiences to lead more pious lives,...(full review)
Shipwrecked
(The Accidental Patriot: The Lamentable Tragedy of the Pirate Desmond Connelly, I)
Reviewed by Samantha O'Brien
May 8, 2008
The subtitle of The Accidental Patriot describes its protagonist, Desmond Connelly, as...(full review)
Handle With Care
(Substitution)
Reviewed by Edward Karam
May 4, 2008
Substitution, the first offering from Playwrights Realm, a new producing organization, is an...(full review)
Check Please!
(The Set Up)
Reviewed by Suzanne Lynch
May 3, 2008
The Set-Up, a contemporary play about modern relationships featuring writer and director...(full review)
Slowly, With Love
(Rafta, Rafta...)
Reviewed by Edward Karam
May 3, 2008
If the best theater takes us to a world we do not know, then Ayub Khan-Din’s Rafta,...(full review)
The Value of a Letter
(The Aspern Papers)
Reviewed by Amy Freeman
May 3, 2008
In an age where tabloids exploit the privacies of celebrities to an alarming degree, the question...(full review)
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(The Importance of Being Earnest)
Reviewed By Suzanne Lynch
May 4, 2008
For its latest production, The Pearl Theater Company delivers a tight and charming version of Oscar Wilde’s comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest.
Despite a few moments of wobbling British accents and slightly off-the-mark casting, theatergoers are nonetheless sure to have a very pleasurable evening.
Set in late Victorian England, the play is a comedic farce that explores social hypocrisy amongst the upper classes. Its two leading men, Algernon (Sean McNall) and Jack (Bradford Cover), will go to any lengths to avoid social obligations that they would rather skip.
To sneak off to the city and escape his attractive 18-year-old ward Cecily (a dewy Ali Ahn), Jack pretends that he has a troubled brother named Ernest, and actually assumes the name Ernest himself while in London, even wooing a woman under his false name. Meanwhile, to escape tiresome dinners with his Aunt, Algernon is constantly visiting an ailing friend named Bunberry, a move he calls "Bunberry-ing." And as the lies and false identities compound and intermingle, they result in some very funny situations.
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A Grand Night For Singing
A Year in the Life of Twenty-five Strangers Living in a City by the Lake
Everyman
Honor
Little Red Riding Hood Chinese Opera
Me
Pennybacker
Rafta, Rafta...
Room for Cream (Episode 1)
School Night
Street Limbo Blues
Substitution
The Accidental Patriot: The Lamentable Tragedy of the Pirate Desmond Connelly, I
The Aspern Papers
The Eccentricities Of A Nightingale
The Importance of Being Earnest
The New Century
The Set Up
The Sound and the Fury
Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind
REVIEWS OF RECENTLY CLOSED SHOWS
The Feminazi
I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given To Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda
On Naked Soil
Fire Island
Antony and Cleopatra
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