The Birds
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The Birds

A sign at the entrance of The Birds warns audience members that the production contains the use of fog and nudity. However, neither of the two aspects of the play that require warning are shocking or frightening, despite the clear intention that they are.

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Quietly
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Quietly

Quietly presents confrontation decades in the making, in which grief and rage are served up in equal amounts and the past and the present combine all too easily.

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Cats
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Cats

Cats, which was embraced with numerous awards and a lengthy run on Broadway, presents a disturbingly patriarchal atmosphere obsessed with youth and beauty and tainted with slut-shaming and misogyny.

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The Women of Summer

The Women of Summer

When Ayad Akhtar brought his new play Junk to Vassar and New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater, the work was an unfinished product. Only two acts had been written of what would ultimately be a three-act play, so after the first two acts had been read to the audience, the playwright took on a new role: that of storyteller. Akhtar stood up and told the audience what would happen and how the play would end.

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Shrewd Taming

Shrewd Taming

Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, this performance of Shakespeare’s controversial play, by a fiercely talented and entirely female cast, inspires uncomfortable but crucial questions about the state of gender relations in America — especially with regard to one woman in particular.

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The Father/A Doll's House
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The Father/A Doll's House

Written by playwrights and famous rivals Strindberg and Ibsen, respectively, these plays offer gripping portrays of trapped women and, at first glance, their differing opinions of them.

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