By Jesse Oxfeld 9/27/11 9:42pm

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Rutina Wesley, above, and Jonathan Groff and Eddie Kaye Thomas, below, in The Submission.

The Submission at the Lucille Lortel; The Bald Soprano at City Center Stage II

Theater, like most entertainment, requires suspension of disbelief. (Wait, why are these people living their lives in a three-walled, brightly lit room?) But tolerance for that suspension exists on a continuum, and a serious drama about a hot-button political topic has a much greater obligation for plausibility than does, say, a musical comedy about Mormon missionaries. Read More

By John Heilpern 6/05/06 12:00am

Remember the Inner City? Nilaja Sun’s Show of the Year

I couldn’t be happier to report that No Child … , Nilaja Sun’s one-woman show at the Beckett Theatre—which she also wrote—is an unexpected, superb achievement. If I say you should rush to see it, will you believe me?

Ms. Sun’s gloriously uncynical gem reaches greatness. It tells us things about life that we only Read More