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  • 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,...

  • Circular Logic

    By on July 13, 2005

    On paper, Bertolt Brecht's plays don't always settle well. Generally his works read like a gravelly stew simmered with tough hunks of meat and not...

  • Getting a Woody

    By on July 6, 2005

    Everyone knows Woody Allen, whether you realize it or not. And whether you want to admit it or not, he's a pretty funny guy. Despite...

  • Unlucky Charms

    By on June 29, 2005

    They don't call it the Land of Ire for nothing. While the stereotype of redheaded leprechauns with a short fuse chugging brew at the end...

  • He Sang, She Sang

    By on June 22, 2005

    Anyone who has survived a devastating breakup or divorce can relate to The Last Five Years, a veritable ''he said, she said'' of events that...