‘Between Riverside and Crazy’ Review: Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer-Winning Dark Comedy Makes Marvelous Broadway Premiere
Crackling with humor and shot through with surprises, “Between Riverside and Crazy,” which premiered off Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company in 2014 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is both a captivating collection of character studies and an incisive indictment of the systems that act upon them. It’s a stunning intellectual achievement that’s also a total gas, a rare breed of theater deserving of protection at all costs.
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If there was an altar to American desirability and mystique, very few people would hold as much space in it as Marilyn Monroe. We feel possessive about her legacy, in a way that drives us to collectively defend her when a TV show fetishizes her life’s traumas. Monroe, in many different ways, signifies America and […]
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Audra McDonald Does Magic in the Lackluster ‘Ohio State Murders’
Adrienne Kennedy has just opened the recently renamed James Earl Jones Theatre with her Broadway debut― Ohio State Murders. And gee, what an opening it is. The production is led by six-time Tony-Award winner, Audra McDonald under the helm of Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon, with a phenomenal set by Tony Award-winning designer Beowulf Boritt, […]
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