Arts + Entertainment
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Landmark Plays
''We wanted to create a very relaxed atmosphere to celebrate and learn about ourselves and our history,'' says Ganymede Arts' Jeffrey Johnson. His theater's current...
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Feeling Loopy
Generally, when reading a theater review in Metro Weekly, you don't see Many ''I'' statements. ''I liked this.'' ''I didn't like that.'' ''I had trouble...
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Great Company
Those sentient during the excesses of the 1980s may recall The The's memorable big-band pastiche Twilight of a Champion in which a scathing Matt Johnson...
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Evita's Closet
Did you know Eva Peron's corpse was perfectly preserved? Or that her mummy was lost for years? ''I just knew part of her story before...
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The Morning After
Haven't we all had a hangover that hits in the morning like a ton of bricks being dropped on your head one at a time?...
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New Heights
Have you made Ciara's acquaintance yet? No doubt you've heard of her. After all, the Atlanta-based singer-songwriter -- born Ciara Princess Harris -- is a...
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Dark Victory
''I didn't know what was happening -- I thought he was having a mid-life crisis or something,'' says composer Michael Shaieb of a close friend...
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Hell Raiser
Recipe: Add one tablespoon of spittle from an old hag, three blond hairs from one young woman (preferable beautiful), and one fly with wings still...
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Boxed In
Part of the issue with Constellation Theatre Company's production of Clive Barker's Crazyface is that it's the production of a play written by Clive Barker....
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Uncovering Ivri
Ivri Lider kissed a girl -- and people liked it. ''Yeah, it was like it was written by a gay man,'' Lider laughs, referring to...
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Going Green
Five years ago, Green Day blazed a new path toward rock respectability with the release of American Idiot. The high-concept album instantly became a classic,...
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Geared Up
Who would have thought that salvation would come in the form of a man with the self-ascribed moniker McG? But it has. McG, who made...
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Big Country
Everything about the world-premiere musical Giant at Signature Theatre is as big as the title suggests. The ''Texas-sized'' musical features an ambitiously scaled concept, a...
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Designing Woman
Despite the bohemian trendiness of the '30s when Noel Coward wrote Design for Living, he must have known that most audiences, being typically conventional, would...
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Rhoda Returns
''She was so much more outrageous than I would ever think of being,'' says Valerie Harper of legendary actress Tallulah Bankhead. ''She would make Rhoda...
