By: Eugene O'Neil
"While O'Neill's tragedies require that we muster all of our strength just to watch them, they address questions that have lost none of their resonance."
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"Reevaluation and reinterpretion seem to be the fate of some O'Neill works, with play after play labeled as ephemeral, enduring or experimental in their time but now considered to be archaic or quaint. But, oddly, some still await their place in a classic line, not far behind ''Long Day's Journey Into Night'' and ''The Iceman Cometh.''
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Beyond Glory
Adapted by: Stephen Lang
"In “Beyond Glory,” a solo show about war veterans that opened last night at the Laura Pels Theater,"
http://http//theater2.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/theater/reviews/22beyo.html
“Beyond Glory” allows the voices of servicemen to be heard without the filter of the conventions of drama or the prerogatives of deadline-driven journalism. "
http://http://www.theaterdogs.net/2008/06/01/review-pericles%E2%80%99/
"Shawn Hamilton(above) holds the narrative together as Gower, the storytelling poet who sings beautifully and fills in the blanks as the years hurry by over the course of the play’s nearly three hours."
The Clean House
By: Sarah Ruhl
"These would not seem promising building blocks for a contemporary American stage comedy."
"An elaborate joke told in Portuguese, without translation."
King Lear
By: William Shakespeare
"King Lear is a tragedy"
"Falls' thoroughly contemporary take on Shakespeare's great tragedy uses costumes"
Vigils
By: Noah Haidle
"Playwright Noah Haidle ("Mr. Marmalade") continues his string of imaginative parables with "Vigils," a simple, sweet exploration of human memory and grief."
"This play has a definte balance of drama and comedy."
Radio Golf
By: August Wilson
"The production that opened last night at the Cort Theater, directed by Kenny Leon, has the crackle of a bustling comedy crossed with an old-fashioned melodrama,"
"the African-American neighborhood where most of Mr. Wilson’s work is set, can be heard only faintly now. Pittsburgh, it would seem, has been stripped of its poetry."
Rabbit Hole
By: David Lindsay Abaire
"That's what "Rabbit Hole," the 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by David Lindsay-Abaire, currently staged by Curious Theatre, points out."
"Each character wrestles with the tragedy in a different way,"
Shining City
By: Conor McPherson
"Like much of Mr. McPherson's work, "Shining City" is a ghost story"
"It takes a village to make an Irish play–or it used to."
Ruined
By: Lynn Nottage
"the dramatization of distant, gruesome political realities -- in her elegant and eloquent new work, "Ruined"
"But as Lynne Nottage’s new drama makes absolutely unforgettable, “ruined” is also something that happens with horrifying frequency to women in Africa."
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