Rattlestick Branching Out: A New York Theatre Company Goes National

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Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging Daniel Talbott’s ‘Slipping’ is the first LA production for the NYC company The Off-Broadway theatre community isn’t a geographical location as much as a mental one, a notion that Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has embraced wholeheartedly as it expands its base all the way from New York’s West Village to Hollywood. Slipping, the well-received play written
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Good With People is Worth the Check-In

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Photo by Carol Rosegg “J’accuse?” It’s one of the first lines uttered in David Harrower’s layered play, Good With People, currently shining at 59E59 as part of its Brits Off Broadway festival. Those familiar with history will understand this statement’s implications of cruelty, equally apt in the time of writer Emile Zola in nineteenth century France as well as
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February Off-Broadway Roundup

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collision-russrowland As the temperatures continue to dip below freezing and Broadway holds off on its heavy-hitters for spring, Off-Broadway theaters continue to mount interesting work. I review a few of them below. Bodega Bay Elisabeth Karlin’s play is an oddly comic hybrid of Flirting with Disaster and Winter’s Bone. Louise (Susan Louise O’Connor), is essentially an
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Graceland: Martin Moran in ‘All the Rage’

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all the rage 1 Martin Moran continues searching for himself in his one-man show ‘All the Rage’ Of all the many hard-hitting statements made by Martin Moran in All the Rage, the life-affirming one-man show authored by and starring the performer and which opened last night at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, one statement stood out among his descriptions
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