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Sara Holdren

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Sara Holdren is a theater director and a critic at New York magazine and Vulture.

  1. Theater Review: The Parisian Woman Is Barely Woke and Barely AwakeSmart actors, decent performances, and a slack script.
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    Theater Review: Amy Schumer Shines in Steve Martin’s Meteor ShowerSteve Martin’s play is full of absurd, funny fizz.
  3. Theater Review: On Wolves Who KickIn Sarah DeLappe’s play, soccer is everything for a team of nameless young female players.
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    Theater Reviews: Pride and Prejudice and Peter Pan, ReimaginedA Wendy with a hint of her emerging womanhood; a Lizzy who stays girlish and a little silly.
  5. Theater Review: The Funny, Fierce, Fearsome Competition of School GirlsThe African Mean Girls Play is a binge-watchable cable series packed into two hours onstage.
  6. Theater Review: Smallpox Stories That Slay, in Latin History for MoronsJohn Leguizamo reimagines history class, with jokes that bite.
  7. Theater Review: Actually Is a Play for This C.K. MomentA campus encounter that’s problematic in multiple ways.
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    Theater Review: The Band’s Visit Finds Strength in SmallnessA musical that forgoes the razzle-dazzle and instead finds power in quietude.
  9. Theater Review: Office Hour Is a Well-Intentioned MistakeIs this theatrical approach to mass shootings irresponsible?
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    Theater Review: High Finance and Low Crimes, in Ayad Akhtar’s JunkThe bonds aren’t the only junk here.
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    Theater Review: The Public Theater Stages Its Own Origin StoryI hope they get it.
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    Theater Review: M. Butterfly, Chasing Its Own Reality“Islands of incisive commentary in a stream that hasn’t entirely found its flow.”
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    Theater Review: People, Places & Things Shatters and SoarsDenise Gough is as great as people are saying she is.
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    Theater Review: In Oedipus El Rey, Fate Falls a Little FlatAn uneven attempt to build on Sophocles.
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    Theater Review: John Patrick Shanley’s Misbegotten The Portuguese KidThe Doubt playwright delivers a pile of self-congratulation.
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    Theater Review: In ‘Strange Interlude,’ One Man, 6 Hours, Many GhostsO’Neill’s immense earthwork of a play, performed solo.
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    Theater Review: In After the Blast, the Apocalypse Is NowLove and robots, post-catastrophe, in Zoe Kazan’s play.
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    Diana Oh Is a Fierce Feminist Who Sings in Her UnderwearThe author-star of {my lingerie play} is onstage and on fire.
  19. Theater Review: Does Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Still Give Off Heat?Theater Review: Does Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Still Give Off Heat?
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    Theater Review: Burning Doors Is a Fiery Anti-Torture, Anti-Putin ScreamAt La MaMa, Russian dissidents show us torture in all its banal brutality.
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    Theater Review: ERS’s Measure for Measure Plays a Losing GameA technical gimmick that undermines the material instead of enhancing it.
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    Theater Review: Eternal Return Feels Old in Time and the ConwaysA play about time, a play of its time.
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    Theater Review: Too Heavy for Your Pocket, Carried Off With GraceA civil-rights-era play that does not feel like a period piece.
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    Theater Review: Tiny Beautiful Things Won Me Over Against My WillDiscord, not so much.
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    Theater Review: The Special Value of The TreasurerWith a delicate, shattering performance at its center.
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    Theater Review: An Ultra-Male, Female-Directed Clockwork OrangePlus two more productions that look at “otherness.”
  27. Theater Review: KPOP Is Gangnam Style With SubstanceUnder the glam, it’s a discomfiting looks at the struggles faced by Asian artists.
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    Theater Review: Charm Is an Uplifting LGTBQ Fairy TaleIt’s the theatrical equivalent of those pictures from the ’60s where a demonstrator meets the barrel of a rifle with a flower.
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    Theater Review: In the Blood Has Never Felt More About the PresentA two-decade-old play leaps right out at you.
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    Theater Review: A Grown-up Peter Pan From Sarah RuhlStruggling to take flight.
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    Theater Reviews: On the Shore of the Wide World and Fucking ANew work from Simon Stephens and Suzan-Lori Parks.
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    Theater Review: Prince of Broadway’s Music Soars Where Its Narrative FaltersThe story of Hal Prince in 35 songs.
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    Theater Review: Blocks From Trump Tower, Michael Moore Stands Up and BarksA monologue, mostly to the believers.
  34. Theater: The Workshop, Where the White Male Ego Is on the Dissection TableOld teacher, young diverse students square off.
  35. Theater Review: A Parallelogram Is a Theatrical Black MirrorA sci-fi framework for a realist story.
  36. Director Robert Woodruff Remembers Sam Shepard“Those gifts don’t arrive that often.”
  37. Theater Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream That Never Touches EarthAll the froth, none of the underlying dread.
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    A Hamlet Where Everyone’s Onstage, and Oscar Isaac Is Among UsAnd Oscar Isaac is among us all.