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  • The Odd Coupling

    By on October 26, 2005

    We're auspicious allies -- indomitable Americans and Brits. We boast the same language, a shared history, and even gaze through the same looking glass at...

  • Resurrected

    By on October 19, 2005

    Taking the stage as the same character for 15 years can take a toll on a performer. Familiarity breeds contempt, as they say, even if...

  • Existential Fodder

    By on October 19, 2005

    In the beginning there is a woman. She is carrying a bottle filled with sand from some distant shore tied to some legendary land. As...

  • Desperate Housewife

    By on October 12, 2005

    At the heart of Marie Ndiaye's Hilda stirs a cold and raw bitterness that pierces the air, the kind of astringent breeze that punctures your...

  • Bosom Buddies

    By on October 5, 2005

    It has all of the gilded trappings of classic musical theater comedy. There's the handsome, zany twosome stuck in the middle of their own harebrained...

  • Vixens and Vampires

    By on September 28, 2005

    Attending Blake Robison's new production of Camille at Round House Theatre is like accepting an invitation to a particularly exquisite dinner party. The table is...

  • All My Sons

    By on September 21, 2005

    Few playwrights possess the ability to stimulate, provoke and bewilder an audience as well as British firebrand Caryl Churchill. Her plays are muddy, mutable forces...

  • Imitation of Life

    By on September 14, 2005

    You may have heard by now that it's a play about many things. It's a play about Christians depicting the enduring passion play and the...

  • Love and Marriage

    By on September 7, 2005

    Jess Goldstein must have a thing for leather. His stylized visions of Iago and Othello as two Italian studs bedecked in long, shiny leather jackets...

  • History's Lessons

    By on August 31, 2005

    When Moisés Kaufman cobbled together all of the manuscripts, poems, witness testimony, biographical accounts and fictional literature that culminates in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials...

  • Pee Town

    By on August 24, 2005

    Let's get this out of the way right up front: Urinetown is not what you think it is. Despite whatever tawdry, profane images your mind...

  • Manipulations

    By on August 17, 2005

    ''La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid.'' Before Dorothy Parker, there was Pierre Choderlos de LaClos, and his 1782 novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses...

  • Royally Wronged

    By on August 3, 2005

    For many ancient cultures and aboriginal tribes, worshipping the sun as a sovereign deity was as natural to life as eating grain and breathing in...

  • Follicle Follies

    By on July 27, 2005

    Big Fun, Hon: The cast of Hairspray If big, bright, near-burlesque, singing, dancing, toe-tapping, knee-slapping, hair-hopping, infectiously giddy Broadway musicals aren't your thing, then steer...

  • A Perfect Mess

    By on July 20, 2005

    For the record, it really doesn't matter if you don't speak Portuguese -- you'll still understand the gist of Matilde's jokes in The Clean House,...