Logan maintains that his play is less about dueling forces in art than about fathers and sons, and this production gets that — even if Abraham seems likelier to eat Isaac than vice-versa. In the end, of course, Ken finds his teeth, using them to puncture Rothko's delusion that the Four Seasons is a properly reverential home for his work. And it works: the upscale eatery doesn't get the paintings. On the very day in 1970 that the artist committed suicide, a cadre of them arrived at London's Tate Gallery.
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It's hard to imagine being dwarfed by the titanically insignificant Willy Loman.
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A bleak expressionist fable centered on a murderous bookkeeper symbolically named Zero. Even when you throw in sexual repression, religious zealotry, a trip to Heaven, and enough dissonance to sate Stephen Sondheim, that doesn’t sound like the stuff of song and dance.
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Although the whirlwind of Scrooges and Rockettes will soon be exiting stage left, the storm of winter theater continues unabated.
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No one, to my knowledge, has accused Superior Donuts of being superior Tracy Letts.
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A loves B but marries C because B loves D, who loves E but eventually returns to B. Meanwhile, K, L, and M . . . . It's that sort of plot.
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It's been the visitors versus the home teams this year.
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