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New York Aisle: In Kimberly Senior’s Broadway view of ‘Disgraced,’ a man’s long fall is crushing

Oct 26, 2014 – 4:10 am
Dinner with friends takes a bitter turn in Ayad Akhtar's 'Disgraced,' directed by Kimberly Senior at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre. (Joan Marcus)

Review: Before hitting Broadway, Ayad Akhtar’s “Disgraced” bounded from its starting point at American Theater Company in Chicago to a run at Lincoln Center in New York. All three stagings have been the work of Chicago-based director Kimberly Senior, and the sequence has displayed a steady sharpening of her perspective, an ever firmer grasp on the conflict and torment that push the play and pull its anti-heroic protagonist toward inexorable ruin. The latest incarnation, at New York’s Lyceum Theatre, is nothing short of devastating. ★★★★★

Oh, what a beautiful show: Lyric ‘Oklahoma!’ sweeps the plain with bounty of song, dance

May 6, 2013 – 1:33 pm
Ashley Brown as Laurey with John Cudia as Curly in Oklahoma at Lyric Opera of Chicago credit Dan Rest

Review: ★★★★★