Review: ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ chips away at a monolith
But for all its surface stylishness, “The Lehman Trilogy” is a stolid and rather monolithic slab of a show: a three hour and twenty minute talking Wikipedia page, so dense with description and narration, and devoid of drama — or even dialogue — that watching it is like watching very expensive paint dry, or maybe, to use a more apt metaphor, listening to cotton growing.
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‘The Lehman Trilogy’: Soulless and Expensive Children’s Theatre for Adults
Soulless and expensive―that’s the best way to describe the Broadway debut of The Lehman Trilogy at the David T. Nederlander Theatre. But then, what else should one expect from a 3 hour and 15-minute long theatrical-ish spectacle devoted to the history of one of the world’s largest financial firms? Es Devlin’s austere corporate office design […]
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‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ Falters and It Should Be Allowed To
Very few pieces of contemporary art show us Black men who are alive, on the “right” side of the law, and (in their own ways) thriving. ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, and written by Keenan Scott II, does. Performed by seven phenomenal actors, the play centers on a cross-section […]
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