New York Adult Entertainment: Theater Listings: June 26 — July 2
… THE RIVALRY’ Norman Corwin’s play, constructed largely from transcripts of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858, had relevance when it was seen on Broadway at the dawn of the civil rights movement, and of course it has a new resonance now. Christian Kauffmann’s Lincoln makes this production by the Vincent Dowling Theater Company and Irish Rep work; his portrayal grows on you, just as Lincoln grew on the American public (2:00). Irish Repertory Theater, 132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea , (212) 727-2737, irishrep.org. (Genzlinger)20090625
★ ‘RUINED’
Lynn Nottage’s strong and absorbing new work, for which she recently won a Pulitzer Prize, is a comfortable, old-fashioned play, set in an African brothel, about an uncomfortable, of-the-moment subject: the rape and mutilation of Congolese women. A raw and genuine agony pulses within the sturdy framework of this vividly acted drama, directed by Kate Whoriskey (2:35).