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Of all contemporary American playwrights, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner August Wilson, who died in 2005, is perhaps the most old-fashioned. Which is a splendid...
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Next to Normal The regional premiere of the rock musical Next to Normal has opened at Stages Repertory Theatre, giving us a vehicle of pure entertainment that will break your...
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The Beams Are Creaking The life of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who opposed Hitler and paid for his resistance with his life, is so full of drama that his story...
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The Beams Are Creaking The life of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who opposed Hitler and paid for his resistance with his life, is so full of drama that his story...
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Shakespeare's magnificently malignant spider, the Duke of Gloucester, soon-to-be Richard III, as embodied by the equally magnificent Guy Roberts, scuttles gleefully across...
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By D.L. Groover and Jim J. Tommaney Published:
May 3, 2012
Don't Drink the Water Woody Allen, already famous for his stand-up routines and comedy writing for TV giant Sid Caesar, went solo with his first Broadway comedy, Don't Drink...
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The Cripple of Inishmaan The University of Houston School of Theatre brings a bit of Ireland to Houston, re-creating the small-mindedness, boredom and bickering of a coastal...
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Menopause The Musical Menopause The Musical turns angst into rollicking good humor as four disparate female strangers meet and bond over the sharing of common mid-life crises....
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American Pastime, the opener for this weekend’s Asian Film Festival, takes place during the sepia-toned days of pre-WWII Los Angeles. Teenager Lyle (Aaron Yoo) plays a...
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Cuttin' Up The chrome on the three barber chairs gleams brightly in Janelle Flanagan's "kitchen sink" set for Charles Randolph-Wright's rich, if sketchy, tapestry of black...
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Below the Belt Existential comedy gets an effective workout at the intimate Black Box theater inside Country Playhouse. That the audience comes out a bit stronger afterward is...
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Annie When it comes to the blockbuster Tony-winning Annie (1977) presented by Theatre Under the Stars with an optimistic grin a mile wide, the old showbiz canard "never work...
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Il Trovatore Giuseppe Verdi's monumental and monumentally exciting opera (1853) roars into Opera in the Heights and flattens everything else around. It leaves one breathless....
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"What does it need?" ponders abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko (Scott Wentworth) in Red as he stares deeply into the unseen canvas that hangs in his cavernous Bowery...
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13 Miles from Security Local playwright Kathy Drum creates vivid characters in a Texarkana setting as the battle of the sexes rages on. The sometimes stark stage of the...
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Dinner with Friends Donald Margulies's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, seen here in Stark Naked Theatre's finely tuned hands, begins as the dissolution of a ten-year marriage...
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Sailing to more immediate shores, but on a journey no less fascinating, Me, Myself & I, the newest work from Edward Albee, the dean and bad boy of American playwrights,...
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By the final scene of the third installment of Tom Stoppard's magnificently rich triptych of 19th-century Russian revolutionaries, Coast of Utopia: Salvage, our hero,...
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Dinner with Friends Donald Margulies's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, seen here in Stark Naked Theatre's finely tuned hands, begins as the dissolution of a ten-year marriage...
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Don't take my word for it, listen to the slick con men sing in Masquerade Theatre's slick production of the Tony Award-winning 2005 musical: "It was a...
