David Rooney reviews EST's "Marathon 2011: Series A"

Rooney declares, "Making Romulus Linney’s “Tennessee” the centerpiece of Series A of the Ensemble Studio Theater’s 33rd annual festival of one-acts was a fine idea....[but]...this 1980 play makes the rest of the patchy program look feeble, though the final two entries do muster a modicum of spark."

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Ken Jaworowski on "I Married Wyatt Earp"

Of Prospect Theater Company's new production says: "There’s a lot of pretty good in the first act of “I Married Wyatt Earp,” a musical at 59E59 Theaters. The story? Pretty good. Songs? Pretty good. Acting, singing, jokes? Same, same, same."

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Anita Gates takes in "As It Is in Heaven"

Gates calls it a "modest, strangely moving one-act by Arlene Hutton (“The Nibroc Trilogy”), which originally opened in New York two days after the terrorist attacks in 2001."

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Andy Webster looks at "Cut"

"With “Cut,” a Horse Trade Theater Group and Management Theater Company production at Under St. Marks, the playwright Crystal Skillman presents a modest “Hurlyburly” for our time..."

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Charles Isherwood on "The Best Is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman”

Perhaps indicating that a move to a larger venue is in order, Isherwood says: "Sitting in the fifth row, I often felt pinned to the back of my seat by the show’s need to transform Coleman’s coolly swinging, jazz-inflected compositions into something hotly theatrical."

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Eric Grode looks at "WTC View"

Originally presented at The New York International Fringe Festival, WTC View is back at 59e59 and Eric Grode says of these recreated potential roommate interviews just after 9/11: "Unlike so many fictional meetings, these elliptical, abortive exchanges feel like actual first encounters."

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Charles Isherwood on "Cradle and All"

"...a slight but mostly satisfying comedy by Daniel Goldfarb..."

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