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In the following essay, Dolan contrasts Shakespeare's Othello and Vogel's Desdemona.
Desdemona (a play about a handkerchief) continues in playwright Paula Vogel's tradition of res...
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In the following mixed review of Hot’n’ Throbbing, Winn maintains that Vogel's “strong subject matter gets squandered on a crude, oddly listless piece of theater.”
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In the following review, Hartigan offers a mixed review of The Mineola Twins.
Imagine a set of identical twins destined to grow up diametrically opposed to each other. As adolescents, they draw a line...
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In the following review, Winn notes the lack of humor in The Mineola Twins and contends that the play “whips past four decades of American cultural landmarks without making these brisk traveler...
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In the following review, Evans lauds Vogel's humor as well as the inspired premise of The Mineola Twins.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive, The Baltimore Wal...
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In the following positive assessment of Desdemona, Winn praises Vogel's canny revision of the character of Desdemona.
A double bill of Dutchman and Desdemona at the Phoenix Theatre packs an inv...
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In the following essay, Savran provides a thematic and stylistic overview of Vogel's work.
Shortly after I met Paula Vogel—twenty years ago in a seminar room at Cornell University—...
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In the following essay, Friedman contends that Vogel's Desdemona signals a significant shift in feminist critical perspective in drama.
In his introduction to Othello, Alvin Kernan asserts that...
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In the following essay, Novy contrasts the portrayal of the Desdemona character in Vogel's Desdemona and Ann-Marie MacDonald's Goodnight Desdemona.
Two very different recent plays take a...
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In the following review, Winn provides a favorable assessment of The Baltimore Waltz.
AIDS gives the play [The Baltimore Waltz] its haunted minor key, its halting cadences and inevitable resolution, b...
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In the following favorable review, Evans commends the originality of The Baltimore Waltz.
Though the field has grown crowded in recent years, The Baltimore Waltz remains one of the most original and p...
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In the following review, Kelly discusses the controversial nature of Hot’n’ Throbbing.
Hot’n’ Throbbing, in ART's New Stages series, is likely to be the most controv...
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In the following favorable assessment of Hot’n’ Throbbing, Blanchard commends Vogel's intelligence and compassion as well as her courage to take on controversial topics.
With How ...
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Critical Essay by Jill Dolan
