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University administrator and teacher by day, theater and arts critic by night.

REVIEW: Happy Talk and the Problem of Tone

Is Jesse Eisenberg’s bumpy play camp…or something entirely different? Critics David Fox and Cameron Kelsall discuss.

Does this legendary production, seen in close-up, retain it’s greatness? Yes… and no.

Even the hit songs in this early Jule Styne musical would recede in a better show.

An admirable new cast doesn’t own this play as the first one did.

As a cohesive evening of music drama, this ambitious double bill doesn’t quite add up.

To resurrect this astonishing show at all in a brief time frame is almost miraculous.

A wonderful musical performance, hampered by a misguided production.

Critics David Fox and Cameron Kelsall discuss Arthur Miller, and this idea-free, crash-and-burn production.

The sexiest moment on Broadway this season features a 73-year-old man and a single button.

What once seemed a poignant meditation on AIDS now plays as a study in white privilege.