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Published: May 28, 2008

7 Sins. Halfway through James Judd's entertaining 75-minute solo show, it dawns on you: Who the hell is this guy and why am I laughing so hard? While autobiographical one-person shows are...

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Published: May 21, 2008

Figaro . People are so seduced by Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro that they tend to overlook the opera's anarchic roots. Historians today widely consider the 18th-century French dramatist...

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By Chloe Veltman, Will Harper, Christopher Jensen, Nathaniel Eaton

Published: May 14, 2008

Figaro . People are so seduced by Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro that they tend to overlook the opera's anarchic roots. Historians today widely consider the 18th-century French dramatist...

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By Chloe Veltman, Will Harper

Published: May 7, 2008

Flaming Sin: London's Grand Guignol. The most enticing aspect of Thrillpeddlers' latest Grand Guignol theater spectacle is the way it messes with our emotions. The first of the evening's...

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By Molly Rhodes, Will Harper, Nathaniel Eaton, Chloe Veltman

Published: April 30, 2008

FLAMING SIN: London's Grand Guignol. The most enticing aspect of Thrillpeddlers' latest Grand Guignol theater spectacle is the way it messes with our emotions. The first of the evening's...

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By Nathaniel Eaton, Chloe Veltman, Will Harper

Published: April 23, 2008

Coronado. Dennis Lehane is the current go-to guy for gritty drama soaked in family tragedy. He wrote books that were adapted for the screen for Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone and Clint...

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By Nathaniel Eaton, Molly Rhodes, Chloe Veltman

Published: April 16, 2008

Coronado. Dennis Lehane is the current go-to guy for gritty drama soaked in family tragedy. He wrote books that were adapted for the screen for Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone and Clint...

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By Nathaniel Eaton, Molly Rhodes, Chloe Veltman

Published: April 9, 2008

Coronado. Dennis Lehane is the current go-to guy for gritty drama soaked in family tragedy. He wrote books that were adapted for the screen for Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone and Clint...

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Molly Rhodes, Chloe Veltman, Nathaniel Eaton

Published: April 2, 2008

Shopping! The Musical. The world is made up of two kinds of people — those who like musical revues and those who really, really don't. Writer and director Morris Bobrow's original...

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By Chloe Veltman, Nathaniel Eaton, Molly Rhodes

Published: March 26, 2008

June in a Box. Playwright Octavio Solis and composer Beth Custer's latest theatrical collaboration retells the story of one of the strangest and most brutal kidnappings of the 20th century....

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By Chloe Veltman, Molly Rhodes, Nathaniel Eaton

Published: March 19, 2008

Endgame. Humanity is at the center of Rob Melrose's new production of Samuel Beckett's sepulchral 1957 masterpiece. This is no small achievement when you consider that the play is, like pretty...

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By Chloe Veltman, Molly Rhodes

Published: March 12, 2008

Endgame. Humanity is at the center of Rob Melrose's new production of Samuel Beckett's sepulchral 1957 masterpiece. This is no small achievement when you consider that the play is, like pretty...

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By Molly Rhodes, Nathaniel Eaton, Chloe Veltman

Published: March 5, 2008

The Scene. Theresa Rebeck's 2006 drama bears many of the traditional hallmarks of a daytime soap. Set in various glamorous New York lofts, the play takes as its departure point a chance...

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By Nathaniel Eaton, Molly Rhodes, Chloe Veltman

Published: February 27, 2008

Day 19. There's a shroud of mystery around performances of Day 19. There's no phone number to get tickets, only an e-mail address for a gentleman from Poland. The Web site for the Scrap and...

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By Molly Rhodes, Nathaniel Eaton, Chloe Veltman

Published: February 20, 2008

Disney & Deutschland. Imagining a 1935 meeting between Walt Disney and Adolf Hitler is a great spark for a play, but playwright and director John J. Powers' production never ignites. The...

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By Chloe Veltman, Nathaniel Eaton, Molly Rhodes

Published: February 13, 2008

Dead Mother, or Shirley Not All in Vain. Like the ghost of an unpopular relative returning for a visit years after its demise, David Greenspan's surreal play is enjoying a belated — and...

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By Chloe Veltman, Molly Rhodes, Nathaniel Eaton

Published: February 6, 2008

Dead Mother, or Shirley Not All in Vain. Like the ghost of an unpopular relative returning for a visit years after its demise, David Greenspan's surreal play is enjoying a belated — and...

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By Nathaniel Eaton, Chloe Veltman, Molly Rhodes

Published: January 30, 2008

reOrient. What makes Golden Thread's collection of five short plays about the Middle East better than your average festival aimed at a Large Theme or Important Cause is the theatrical...

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Nathaniel Eaton, Molly Rhodes, Chloe Veltman

Published: January 23, 2008

reOrient. What makes Golden Thread's collection of five short plays about the Middle East better than your average festival aimed at a Large Theme or Important Cause is the theatrical...

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Published: January 16, 2008

Cirque du Soleil: KOOZA. The last few Cirque du Soleil touring shows ( Dralion, Varekai, Corteo ) were so slick and so mass-marketed to general audiences that the action under the blue and...