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Review: See Oscar Issac in the Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
May 5, 2023, 10:48.50 am ET
By Brian Scott Lipton
Years later and a thousand miles away from Chicago, the characters in Lorraine Hansberry’s “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” are searching for their fulfillment of their own American Dreams, but theirs are not as simple as Walter Lee Younger’s liquor store or his mother Lena’s suburban house. In fact, there’s nothing simple at all about “Sidney Brustein,” which has arrived at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre essentially intact from its sold-out run at BAM earlier this year. Continue reading...
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Review: Make Your Reservation for Table 17
September 7, 2024, 3:52 am ET
By Brian Scott Lipton Based purely on its plot synopsis, one might have reservations about seeing Douglas Lyons’ “Table 17,” now being presented at MCC Theater. After all, is ther... READ MORE
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Experimental Cocktail Club New York Opens in Flatiron
September 6, 2024, 5:54 pm ET
Experimental Cocktail Club New York, a revival the famed cocktail haven of the same name that shuttered on the Lower East Side in 2016, is making a comeback in Flatiron at 6 West 24th Street. Th... READ MORE