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THEATER: Lisa Kron’s solo play 2.5 Minute Ride, which won an OBIE when it premiered at the Public Theater in 1999, is currently being revived with Nicole Golden as the autobiographical “Lisa.” The play concerns Lisa's attempts to make a documentary about the life of her father, a German Jew who survived the Holocaust but lost his parents at Auschwitz. 2.5 Minute Ride finds him, in his later years, a blind diabetic with a heart condition and a passion for roller coasters. Allison Taylor deems it as comical as it is intense; a “patchwork of anecdotes about Kron's family, including memories of her Midwestern mother; an annual trip with her embarrassing relatives to the Cedar Point amusement park; and her brother's Orthodox wedding… genuinely poignant and simultaneously funny.” - John Del Signore

Ancient Greek plays are constantly getting makeovers – modern interpretations are probably more common, at least on American stages, than versions that follow the original Greek format, with a chorus and all that. Oedipus at Palm Springs is, needless to say, another adaptation – but after you see this one you won’t be able to watch a Greek tragedy or think about the Oedipus myth (especially in the Freudian context) in the same way ever again.

Mike Daisey, Monologuist

We were stoked to read in Playbill that Academy Award-winning actress Holly Hunter (.