Review: David Mamet’s Low-Down Schemers Return in American Buffalo Revival
Whether this play has any fresh revelations to offer the more “woke” world of 2022, however, is a question that this production never really bothers to ask. For better or worse, this new production mostly offers the not-inconsiderable spectacle of a job well done.
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There was a child seated behind me at the Broadway Theatre the evening I attended The Little Prince. The boy was roughly the age I was when I first learned of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s exceedingly charming, poignant, heartbreaking tale. The child was getting excited, asking questions, enthralled by the pretty rainbow lights filling the space, […]
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A Recipe for Love is Served in ‘Birthday Candles’
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