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Entries by David Finkle from 09/2012

First Nighter: Feinstein, Maye Swing the Night Away Brilliantly

| Posted 09.06.2012 | New York
Read More: Nick Ziobro, Tom Hubbard, Tony Martin, Ken Peplowski, Marvin Hamlisch, Jerry Herman, New York City, Ralph Blane, Feinstein Initiative, Michael Buble, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, Louis Armstrong, Tedd Firth, Hugh Martin, Glenn Drews, Albie Berk, Marilyn Maye, Michael Feinstein, New York News

If hot music means more to you than heated politics, the place to be this past Tuesday wasn't Charlotte, North Carolina but New York City where Michael Feinstein and Marilyn Maye were -- as the title of their tandem show has it -- "Swingin' the Night Away."

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First Nighter: Lisa d'Amour's Motor City Tragi-Comedy Detroit Needs Bodywork

| Posted 09.18.2012 | Arts
Read More: Democratic National Convention, The New York Times, Mitt Romney, "Detroit." Lisa D'Amour, Playwrights Horizons, National Theatre, Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize, Anne Kauffman, David Schwimmer, Louisa Thompson, Darren Pettie, Sarah Sokolovic, Amy Ryan, Republican National Convention, Charles Isherwood, Detroit, Arts News

D'Amour's intentions might be accepted, and even applauded, if she supported her characters with three-dimensional grounding. But here's where she allows herself to believe that presenting a gloomy prediction of national spoilage is all she needs to do. (Or is she just being lazy?)

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First Nighter: Adam Rapp's 'Through the Yellow Hour' Strikes Home

| Posted 09.28.2012 | Arts
Read More: Adam Rapp, Through the Yellow Hour, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Through the Yellow Hour Adam Rapp, Arts News

Rapp is one of our most compulsive dramatists, an author forever running the risk of writing too much. He's also a rare playwright in that he can effectively direct his own work. Ellen as a post-modern Joan of Arc is where he achieves undeniable success.

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