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  • Full House

    By on September 26, 2007

    What's so enthralling about Synetic Theater's production of The Fall of the House of Usher, is how thoroughly it braids conventional theater with dance and...

  • Tough Lessons

    By on September 26, 2007

    When Ernest J. Gaines' novel A Lesson Before Dying was published in 1993 it found fast fame. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, awarded a National...

  • Heartbreak Hotel

    By on September 19, 2007

    It's awfully hard not to smile when presented with director Mariusz Trelinski's modern take on Giacomo Puccini's highly revered classic, La Boheme. There is something...

  • The Good German

    By on September 19, 2007

    It's hard to think of one without the other. Just as Microsoft often comes to mind when you think about Apple, so you wonder about...

  • Beatle Mania

    By on September 19, 2007

    Like space, Across the Universe has supernovas shining bright, and black holes that suck all matter into oblivion. In between, there are a lot of...

  • All My Children

    By on September 12, 2007

    www.studiotheatre.org Black vs. white. Man vs. woman. Teacher vs. pupil. Self defense vs. murder. Rock vs. dictionary. These dichotomies and others cleave fissures through Athol...

  • Plum Roll

    By on September 12, 2007

    First of all, the answer is yes. This is the one that goes backwards. Which means that Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along is not...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 12, 2007

    HIT ONE MORE TIME... Oops, she did it again. But Britney Spears didn't just goof again. Though clearly she did that, with her sloppy and...

  • Happy Accident

    By on September 12, 2007

    Imagine this: you're shaving your legs in a bathtub. You slip and fall. Somehow, during the slip, the razor meets your wrists. There's blood everywhere,...

  • Living Testament

    By on September 5, 2007

    Talking to Bruce Ward about his play, Lazarus Syndrome, is like navigating a minefield -- albeit one in which you long to step on the...

  • Compulsive Obsession

    By on September 5, 2007

    When is an obsession a good thing? When it's in the hands of a genius like Beethoven. Or, in the case of 33 Variations, when...

  • American Values

    By on September 5, 2007

    If you polled the typical Woolly Mammoth audience you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn't agree that: 1) American Christian missionaries who go to...

  • Diva Dude

    By on September 5, 2007

    What happens when a dedicated scene idolizes female vocal pyrotechnics a tad too much? In today's gay club scene, you could say Jason Walker is...

  • Barbed Wire

    By on August 29, 2007

    All's fair in love and war. And for playwright Noel Coward, that extends to marriage and laughter. Verbal warfare abounds in Coward's classic, Private Lives,...

  • Silent Weapon

    By on August 22, 2007

    Some shows are almost impossible to review. This isn't because they are bad plays. In fact, those are actually the easiest to work with. There...