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Bright and Breezy in the Big Easy

A review of Pirates! The Penzance Musical by Michael Sommers | April 24, 2025

The only significant trouble with this giddy Pirates! is that it’s really too much of a good thing and might be better were it one show-stopper fewer or perhaps ten minutes less. Still, it’s fun to hear gags that are nearly 150 years old, like the silly “orphan/often” exchange, still raise laughs today and it’s great to see Roundabout introduce a Gilbert & Sullivan classic, more or less, to a fresh audience.

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Ran Xia | December 20, 2022

One of them paved a path of his own ascending to artistic godhood by glorifying the mundane; the other painted SAMO (meaning the Same Old Sh*t) criticizing the very idea of repetition. One of them broke down the wall between art and business; for the other, walls didn’t mean a thing. One saw beauty, immortality, […]

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Complex Men and Caricatures of Women Are Caught ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’

Bedatri D.Choudhury | December 19, 2022

Walter “Pops” Washington, as he self-describes in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer-winning play Between Riverside and Crazy, is “a flesh and blood, pee standing up, registered Republican.” He is also a litigious former cop caught within the crossroads of bureaucracy, racism, life as a widower, and a fast-gentrifying Riverside Drive. He also happens to be Black. […]

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