Review: Martyna Majok’s Gorgeous Pulitzer Winner Cost of Living Comes to Broadway
But the Broadway mounting, with its gorgeous direction by Jo Bonney and quartet of sterling performances, is tighter and more emotional all around. Perhaps now, after nearly three difficult years that many people spent completely alone, is an even righter time for this play than ever.
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Everything in Leopoldstadt unfolds like a game of cat’s cradle. It’s 1899 and the Merz & Jakobovicz family portrait is one of abundance and contentment. The conversations flow along with whiskey and music, as family members discuss Freud’s latest theories, which Hermann Merz (David Krumholtz) disdains, mathematician Riemann’s still unsolved hypothesis, which Ludwig Jakobovicz (Brandon […]
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Rushed Storytelling Robs ‘The Kite Runner’ of Its Emotional Impact
A good story is something you enjoy. A great story stays with you and echoes through the ages. Khaled Hosseini’s semi-autobiographical novel The Kite Runner is certainly a great story. Spanning across decades and continents, its labyrinth of interwoven threads tugs at your heartstrings with every twist. Matthew Spangler’s stage adaptation of Hosseini’s eponymous novel […]
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