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Broadway Review: “Morning Sun”

“I’m very scared. I’m very confused it’s very bright here please just tell me whether or not I am safe.” These are among the first words spoken by Charley McBride (an ethereal and impassioned Edie Falco) in Simon Stephens’s “Morning Sun” currently running at Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center - Stage I.

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Broadway Review: “The Lehman Trilogy”

“Despite the quality of the work – and it is impressive – “The Lehman Trilogy” constantly reminds the audience of the dynamics of the all-too-easy transition from entrepreneurship to corporate greed, the kind of greed that has grown exponentially after the Stock Market Crash of 2018 and resulted in the collapse of the Lehman Brothers empire that began in 1844 as Heyum Lehmann stood on a wooden dock in New York harbor fulfilling his dream of America.”

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Off-Broadway Review: WP Theater/Second Stage Theater’s “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord” at the McGinn/Cazale Theater

Alexis Sheer’s “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord,” in its final days at the McGinn/Cazale Theater, is deeply disturbing and profoundly important. Co-produced by WP Theater and Second Stage Theater, the play explores the shadowy underbelly of the teenage angst of four private secondary school young women with extraordinary perception and frightening accuracy.

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Off-Broadway Review: “Seared” in the Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater at The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space

Successful entrepreneurs like Harry (an overzealous but hypersensitive Raúl Esparza) typically attempt to guard their “art” from “commerce” for as long as possible. They feel frightened by the prospect of commercial success overwhelming their sense of artistic integrity. At least that is Harry’s point of view in Theresa Rebeck’s “Seared” currently running in the Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater at The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space.

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Off-Broadway Review: “Bella Bella” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York City Center Stage I

Harvey Feinstein wisely chooses to “be” Bella Abzug and not simply “portray” her. There are no gimmicks here, no backups, no filters, no frills – just Bella. Mr. Fierstein draws on his skills of connecting with his audience to raise the rich and enduring questions raised by Ms. Abzug’s life and legacy.

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