Nina Shen Rastogi

Features

Rock of Stages: Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Lust

By Nina Shen Rastogi

Can Duncan Sheik -- assisted by a fleet of 100-year-old horny German teens -- save the rock musical from itself? [22 December 2006]

Columns

And Baby Makes a Mess

By Nina Shen Rastogi

In which Sandra Oh inadvertently scares our columnist to death in a new play that's 'like birth control'. [19 June 2006]

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In Sickness and in Health

By Nina Shen Rastogi

In Well, Lisa Kron asks, what is the difference between the healthy and the ill? And also, why does my mom keep fucking up my play? [25 April 2006]

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Double Hedda

By Nina Shen Rastogi

In New York, Henrik Ibsen's centennial is celebrated with a knockout showdown: It's Cate Blanchett vs. the robots, for the soul of Hedda Gabler. [30 March 2006]

Keeping the Line Between the Past and the Present

By Nina Shen Rastogi

Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright talks to Performance Oriented about his new stage adaptation of Grey Gardens; or, How to Make 'Morbid Eccentrics' Sing and Dance. [3 March 2006]

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Peanuts Brittle

By Nina Shen Rastogi

In Royal's theatrical adaptation of the Peanuts cartoon strip, Charlie Brown and the gang have grow older, been through some hard times. It's sometimes funny, sometimes morbid. But like it's one-dimensional inspiration, it never manages to get 'real'. [30 January 2006]

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