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  • Deep Throat

    By on September 24, 2008

    Choke, based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, may be tough to swallow, but if you can get it down, it's really worth it. As...

  • Flying High

    By on September 17, 2008

    Oh, the drama. A would be king takes to a stage dressed in the pageantry of ancient Rome to greet his throngs of loyal followers....

  • Stage Presence

    By on September 17, 2008

    Though one cannot but envy the idea of seeing an opera with beer, hotdogs and vast commodes on tap, it is also somewhat hard to...

  • Visiting Hours

    By on September 17, 2008

    In David Mamet's play Squirrels, the character Arthur describes the act of storytelling as going ''From nothing to nothing.... 'Nothing.' Rising action. Climax. Falling action....

  • Men Uplifting

    By on September 17, 2008

    Resurrection, Daniel Beaty's ode to the lives, hearts and souls of five African-American men and a son, is both everything you would expect it to...

  • Bundle of Grief

    By on September 17, 2008

    For the first few months of her pregnancy, Andrea Askowitz didn't know what was wrong. ''I just felt really anxious and angry and just not...

  • Ball Bearing

    By on September 17, 2008

    ''It's a lot easier to get stuff made for TV than it is for movies,'' says Alan Ball. And he should know: The screenwriter of...

  • Feminine Imposition

    By on September 17, 2008

    There are only three groups who should willingly sit through The Women: females who nightly juggle TMZ.com, Haagen Dazs and Lifetime while wrapped in a...

  • Blurred Visages

    By on September 3, 2008

    If you think being a gay Republican is a tough dichotomy to reconcile, try being a gay Muslim. In concept, the idea of being gay...

  • Witty Repartee

    By on September 3, 2008

    The trick of improvisational theater is taking a few ideas and stitching them together on the fly before an audience. Success can be measured in...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 3, 2008

    Rihanna WHAT'S SUMMER WITHOUT RIHANNA?... Another summer has come and gone, and Rihanna once again showed her strength as a summer songstress. But for the...

  • Torture Garden

    By on September 3, 2008

    The first thing to note about The Catalyst Theater Company's production of George Orwell's 1984 is that it does not feel like high school. I...

  • Offending the Masses

    By on August 27, 2008

    Hamlet 2 is blasphemy, pure and simple. And it's not just the musical number ''Rock Me Sexy Jesus'' that's going to have people apoplectic; Shakespeare...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 27, 2008

    YOKO ONO'S PEACE DANCE... In a world coming increasingly unmoored, pleas for peace may seem naĂŻve, but they're also very necessary. Just as she did...

  • Sticky Fingers

    By on August 27, 2008

    Contemplation of the Post-Industrial Family surely ranks as one of the most indispensable themes of the modern playwright. What writer worth their salt can resist...