by Joseph A. Hazani January 18, 2017
There continues to be a fine line between being provocative for its very namesake, and being so which acts in an entirely subservient manner to the centrality of the plot. While Hand to God is better off than most in being so overtly flagrant in, if not stirring then, traumatizing the senses, it suffers from many flaws which debilitate an otherwise impressive story. It appears more or less as an....
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by Joseph A. Hazani January 18, 2017
This is a triumph in contemporary theatre. It strips away the vanities of staged productions; of manufactured choreography, and of banal dialogue that is trying to stretch an atom of an idea into a densely compact story. The rhythm of this exploration into the human life, in which every kind universally has been cast slings and arrows of misfortune, is so strikingly perfect, the audience has no....
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by Joseph A. Hazani January 18, 2017
Assistance is a small stage production trying to isolate and concentrate a more venomous side of the executive assistant tongue, most popularized by the film The Devil Wears Prada. While in that work there is a terrific exposition of one central character, and the actual humor in the incidental work where before she had no interest to climb the corporate ladder of fashion, Assistance very vaguely....
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