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“King Kong” has set a new bar on Broadway. It is a visual feast that does for stagecraft in 2018 what the movie did for filmmaking in 1933 – marks a new era of what’s possible. And it’s not all about the two- thousand-pound gorilla in the room. Although his presence is magnificent, the entire production team has been touched by magic and the marvels start when the curtain rises.

Bernie and Mikey’s Trip to the Moon

by Brittany Crowell | Nov 15, 2018 | Reviews

Bernie loves Elvis and her brother, Mikey. Mikey is stuck in a dead-end job in the Chicago suburbs, where he lives with Bernie and his parents. Bernie’s parents are struggling to rebuild their family after the tragic illness twenty years ago that changed everything.

THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI

by Sarah Downs | Nov 15, 2018 | Reviews

Move over, Richard III, there’s a new fascist in town, and his name is Arturo Ui.

Hamlet: An Experience

by David Walters | Nov 15, 2018 | Reviews

Courageous and intimate

Wild Goose Dreams

by Donna Herman | Nov 15, 2018 | Reviews

Hansol Jung’s “Wild Goose Dreams” is a couple of good ideas that got drunk at a bar in Vegas and wound up in an Elvis chapel and got married. They tried to make it work, but they should really get a divorce. Individually, they’re terrific. But they don’t belong together. He’s a little bit binary, she’s a little bit Grimm’s Fairy Tales. I know, I know, they say opposites attract and that may be true. Doesn’t mean they belong together for the long haul.