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  We Get the Heart But Not The Edge In Every Brilliant Thing

  September 19 at 7:11 a.m.

  Ice cream. Wonder Woman. Things with stripes. Spaghetti with meatballs. Being allowed to stay up late to watch TV. For any seven-year-old girl, this is a list of awesomeness. However, for one seven-year-old girl, these items have a tragic undertone. Her's is a list of all the brilliant things in...

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  The Winter's Tale at the Alley Picks Up With a Move to the Country

  September 19 at 7:07 a.m.

  All hail Bohemia! Alley Theatre's handsome production finally catches sunshine when it moves to the exotic land far away from dour Sicilia, where the play begins. Officially Act IV in Shakespeare's radiantly transparent yet complex fairy tale, The Winter's Tale, the Bohemia sequence is Shakespeare as jester. He tosses off...

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  Frank Loesser's Music Celebrated in a Monday Night Cabaret Series at Ovations

  September 18 at 5 a.m.

  A-list song writer Frank Loesser began his career by, to quote his own song, “Doin' It the Hard Way.” Unlike preceding A-listers Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, Rodgers, Loesser went to Hollywood without prior Broadway fame. That would come later, and with it multiple Tony awards, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a...

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  Spring Awakening: The Rock Musical About Teenagers Comes to TUTS

  September 18 at 4 a.m.

  Following its debut on Broadway in 2006, the rock musical Spring Awakening won eight Tony Awards including the one for Best Musical. Revived in 2015, it received three Tony Award nominations. So its fairly well established that audience members and critics consider it a moving and stellar piece of musical...

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  Every Brilliant Thing Offers a Funny, Sad, Resilient Night at the Theater

  September 16 at 6 a.m.

  The lights will be on throughout. There's nowhere to hide. In Every Brilliant Thing about to open at Main Street Theater a solo performer holds the stage for 75 minutes as a character talking about depression and the effect her suicidal mother had on her life. Despite the subject matter...

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  The Hard Problem at Main Street Theater is Classic Stoppard in All the Right Ways

  September 15 at 6:51 a.m.

  If the first scene of a play has a couple in bed, undressed or sitting close enough to each other to pique your interest, you might be anywhere in contemporary theater. If the first scene of the play has a couple in bed and they're talking statistics, cost benefit analysis,...