(Jacob Gallagher-Ross’s review appeared in the 7/11 Village Voice.)
Karl Marx was famously of the opinion that world history happened once as tragedy and again as farce. But for Gittel Fenster, the aspiring revolutionary heroine of Dan Fishback’s charming, wise new musical The Material World—now playing at Dixon Place, in a production skillfully directed by Stephen Brackett—history returns again and again in song-and-dance numbers: medleys with the future; duets with the past.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-07-11/theater/the-material-world-masses-entertainment/