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OUTSIDE MULLINGAR – Berkshire Theatre Festival

June 28, 2019

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DAN DWYER

John Patrick Shanley’s “Outside Mullingar” is an Irish-American love letter to the auld sod.   I say this as an Irish-American (well, half) and how Shanley’s affection for the Irish informs  his four souls in rural Ireland:  an aging , widower father Tony Reilly (Jeffr...

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DRAGON SPRING, PHOENIX RISE – The McCourt at The Shed

June 28, 2019

WTF is the response to “Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise” - not only as in “what was that all about?” but also “why was this made?”  This senseless, colossal nothing in the colossal The McCourt (the enclosed, interior performance space at The Shed in Hudson Yards), promoting...

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AMERICA v. 2.1 – Barrington Stage Company

June 26, 2019

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DAN DWYER

Stacey Rose’s “America v. 2.1: The Sad Demise and The Eventual  Extinction of the American Negro” is set in some dystopian, white propaganda theme park (or convention center or such) where four enslaved African Americans perform a minstrel-style, industrial show that i...

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INTO THE WOODS – Barrington Stage Company

June 24, 2019

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DAN DWYER


Barrington Stage Company’s INTO THE WOODS is the most uniquely and coherently conceived and the most dramatically satisfying production of the 1987 Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine classic I’d wish to see.   It’s also ravishingly beautiful with a thoroughly original...

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CRAZY FOR YOU - Sharon Playhouse

June 22, 2019

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DAN DWYER

Sharon Playhouse’s production of CRAZY FOR YOU, with the marvelous score by George and Ira Gershwin, is a perfect summer stock  musical.  There I’ve said it.  Surpassing its winning Cole Porter’s ANYTHING GOES in last year’s first season under new management, Sharon Pl...

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A STRANGE LOOP - Playwrights Horizons

June 19, 2019

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DAN DWYER


In the soul of Michael R. Jackson’s in-your-face, scorching new musical A STRANGE LOOP is a most tender post-adolescent, coming-of-age story.  Getting there on the journey with Jackson’s protagonist, Usher (an astonishing Larry Owens), a 25 year old gay African Americ...

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BEETLEJUICE – Winter Garden Theatre

June 11, 2019

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DAN DWYER

If you have fond memories of the charm and whimsy of Tim Burton’s deliciously ghoulish 1988 fantasy- comedy BEETLEJUICE, they will be obliterated by the stage musical version.  The bloated production with a ludicrously convoluted book and a noisy, unmemorable score see...

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OCTET – Signature Theatre

June 11, 2019

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DAN DWYER


The performance area of Off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre, a  wide, three- quarter thrust floorspace, is transformed to a tired church basement; actors appear to be setting up for an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, but what kind of therapy group is it really?  Before the...

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LONG LOST – Manhattan Theatre Club

June 5, 2019

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DAN DWYER

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Margulies’  “Long Lost”, in its premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club, is a play that’s exceptionally well written, directed, cast, acted and staged.  It’s also exceptionally unoriginal.


Margulies tells a contemporary tale...

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THE INHERITANCE – Ethel Barrymore Theatre

December 2, 2019

SEARED – MCC

November 27, 2019

THE SOUND INSIDE - Lincoln Center Theatre and Williamstown Theatre Festival

November 1, 2019

SCOTLAND, PA - Roundabout Theatre

October 24, 2019

DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA – Hudson Theatre

October 21, 2019

SOFT POWER - The Public Theater

October 19, 2019

THE WRONG MAN - MCC Theater

October 17, 2019

WHAT THE JEWS BELIEVE – Berkshire Theatre Group

October 8, 2019

AMERICAN UNDERGROUND - Barrington Stage Company

October 7, 2019

THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM - Manhattan Theatre Club

September 28, 2019

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