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	<title>Gilgamesh Follies: Constellation&#39;s latest epic is only worth it for the visual stimulation provided by the cast</title>
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Stage: Right now&#44; there&#39;s a work of art gracing the stage at the Source on 14th Street&#46; And I don&#39;t mean Gilgamesh&#44; the fantastical show created around Yusef Komunyakaa&#39;s flowery prose poetry&#46; Well&#44; not the script or the story of Gilgamesh anyway&#46; Based on an ancient written epic from Mesopotamia&#44; Komunyakaa&#39;s work is too fanciful and over&#45;the&#45;top to fully draw you in or even really understand&#46; You may find yourself asking what&#39;s the point&#63; There&#39;s no clear answer&#44; even with a bit of resolution at show&#39;s end&#46; But the visual spectacle that Constellation Theatre Company has created is&#44; as ever&#44; a sight for sore eyes&#46; Among Constellation&#39;s feats this time out are eye&#45;popping&#44; resplendent costumes by Kendra Rai and imaginative choreography and movement of actors &#45;&#45; who even personify wild creatures and interpret waves in the rough seas &#45;&#45; by choreographer Emma Crane Jaster working with fight director Casey Kaleba and puppet designer Matthew McGee&#46; Tom Teasley&#39;s live percussion&#45;based new age music further enhances the show &#45;&#45; it&#39;s mostly incidental or accentual&#46; Joel David Santner plays the title character&#44; a half&#45;god&#44; half&#45;human hybrid&#44; who is a tyrannical king until he finally learns the right balance to managing his split&#45;personality&#46; Santner is a sharp actor&#44; and notable for his skill alone&#59; he has the dramatic charisma to carry the show&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Arid and Overwhelming: This Palm Springs play needs both far less and much more</title>
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Stage: It&#39;s always a little disconcerting when you don&#39;t get what all the fuss is all about&#46; A case in point&#44; Jon Robin Baitz&#39;s Other Desert Cities is an award&#45;winner with a successful Broadway run&#44; and yet beneath its flamboyant premise&#44; flaming one&#45;liners and starkly delineated characters&#44; there is only a tentative foray into its subjects&#58; the bond between parent and adult child and the harsh edge between public and private lives&#46; Of course&#44; the play&#39;s popularity suggests that the flaws are easily ignored in favor of Baitz&#39;s cleverly conceived color&#44; comedy and driven characters&#46; But noisy and energetic shouldn&#39;t be confused with insightful&#44; especially when there are plays such as Tracy Letts&#39;s August&#58; Osage County stalking the same territory&#46; Still&#44; Baitz is not without craft and ideas&#46; His vehicle &#38;ndash&#59; a Christmas Eve reunion between the older&#44; wealthy and deeply status&#45;conscious Wyeth parents and their liberal East Coast adult daughter&#44; Brooke&#44; and West Coast TV producer son&#44; Trip &#38;ndash&#59; is fertile ground for some interesting &#40;and funny&#41; cultural clashes&#46; And its engine &#38;ndash&#59; Brooke&#39;s anxious revelation that she has written a book that may upset her parents &#38;ndash&#59; invites a far trickier and more provocative contest&#46; Other Desert Cities ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>All for One: Synetic&#39;s Musketeers dazzles with storytelling that is not simply entertaining&#44; but transporting</title>
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Stage: Though the urge to wax lyrical is almost overpowering &#40;and follows below&#41;&#44; let&#39;s cut to the chase&#58; Synetic&#39;s The Three Musketeers is a joyously accessible adaptation of Alexandre Dumas&#39;s classic swashbuckler and is simply&#44; absolutely&#44; the most superb fun&#44; whether you are a diehard Synetic fan or chose this as your first foray into the unique world of this one&#45;of&#45;a&#45;kind theater company&#46; With an adaptation &#40;by Ben and Peter Cunis&#41; of the novel delivered in a whirl of wild and wonderful characters&#44; witty and silly dialogue and a plethora of acrobatics and flashing blades&#44; there is visually&#44; spatially and literally never a dull moment&#46; Three Musketeers&#58; Peter Pereyraas as Rochefort and Dallas Tolentinoas as D&#39;Artagnan ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Heel Thyself&#58; &#39;&#39;Kinky Boots&#39;&#39;: Cyndi Lauper&#39;s original songs go beyond the Broadway box in the new Tony&#45;nominated musical</title>
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Stage: The new Broadway musical Kinky Boots is hands down this year&#39;s gayest &#45;&#45; or &#39;&#39;most fabulous&#44;&#39;&#39; to go with Entertainment Weekly&#39;s coded description&#46; You could even think of it as an update on La Cage Aux Folles&#44; with a few heaping sprinkles of Priscilla&#44; Queen of the Desert&#39;s good cheer and confetti&#44; and even a nod to the British working&#45;class milieu of previous movie musical adaptations Billy Elliot and The Full Monty&#46; In other words&#44; it all but dares you to try and resist it&#46; Kinky Boots&#58; The Musical ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>War Torn&#58; &#39;&#39;Wallenstein&#39;&#39;: Robert Pinsky boldly and cleverly freshens Wallenstein&#39;s solemn historical premise with an irreverently modern voice</title>
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Stage: Playing in rep with Coriolanus&#44; the Shakespeare Theatre Company&#39;s Wallenstein offers another angle on a powerful military man falling fatally from grace&#46; As extraordinary as the manic Coriolanus&#44; albeit in a very different way&#44; Wallenstein similarly finds he cannot reconcile his vision with the powerful realities and vagaries of the politics that dictate war&#46; Whereas for Coriolanus it meant the end of his hope to rule Rome&#44; for Wallenstein it means the end of a soldier&#39;s wish to settle a long and bloody war with a pact that offers him great power&#46; This is a rich and uncompromising pair of plays&#59; each ready to be mined for relevancies and enduring lessons and equally worth comparing for the examination of the egos and aspirations of the men at their centers&#46; But as fascinating as they may be intellectually&#44; neither is often staged and in the case of Friedrich Schiller&#39;s Wallenstein&#44; for good reason&#46; Even reduced from its multi&#45;hour running time by poet Robert Pinsky&#39;s adaptation&#44; it has a plot dense enough to leave even season&#45;ticket holders breathing into a paper bag&#46; Presenting&#44; at times&#44; like an opera minus the emotionally revealing and gratifying score&#44; it&#39;s easy to see the challenge in delivering a production that is not just comprehensible&#44; but also engaging&#46; But that&#39;s all the more reason to laud this production&#44; for not only does Pinsky condense the drama to its tensest core&#44; he boldly and cleverly freshens its solemn historical premise with an irreverently modern voice&#46; Thus&#44; Wallenstein himself addresses the audience as a contemporary when he is not immersed in 17th century crisis and right from the get&#45;go dismisses any suggestion that one need know the ins and outs of the Thirty Years&#39; War&#46; The hardcore purists may balk&#44; but everyone else will relish an accessible distillation of Schiller&#39;s conflict that doesn&#39;t require a minor in European history or the missing of a day&#39;s work&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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