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  • Future Plans

    By on April 13, 2005

    August Wilson doesn't just sit down and write a play. He delicately composes a small symphony of musical prose, a theatrical retelling of history as...

  • Artistic Scribe

    By on April 6, 2005

    The minute Jon Robin Baitz mentions that he recently finished penning an episode of Alias, the interviewer's mind comes to a screeching halt. He stops...

  • Face Value

    By on April 6, 2005

    At first glance, Jeanette L. Buck's There Are No Strangers is nothing more than a lengthy account of a harrowing and violent personal ordeal. Told...

  • Animal Husbandry

    By on March 30, 2005

    If Edward Albee's goal as a playwright is to expose the lies that organize our everyday lives, then he succeeds brilliantly with The Goat or,...

  • Simply Magical

    By on March 30, 2005

    It's easy to mistake Big River for just another fluff musical based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. After all, its jazzy ragtime...

  • Almost Famous

    By on March 23, 2005

    We call it ''fine art '' because it requires fine skill. Who possesses the skill, exactly how much ability they possess, and how they intend...

  • Sunny Side Up

    By on March 16, 2005

    Nestled among the woods of Gilead, Wisc. rests the Spitfire Grill, a cozy little nook where the owner always knows where you want to sit...

  • Pop Rocks

    By on March 9, 2005

    Remember those black packets filled with the sugary-sweet concoction of tiny stone-like candies that you pop in your mouth and they sizzle, fizzle, crackle and...

  • Raising the Roof

    By on February 23, 2005

    Contrary to the implication of its title, MetroStage's The All Night Strut! doesn't last all night long -- though at several of its most sparkling...

  • Family Affair

    By on February 16, 2005

    Quiet repose: Paulding in Member of the Wedding (Photo by T. Charles Erickson) Some plays age like a fine wine. Others modify shape and texture,...

  • Growing Pains

    By on February 9, 2005

    At first glance, Kimberly Levaco is a normal 16-year-old girl with a precocious mind and a flair for the melodramatic. But look a little closer...

  • Stage Haze

    By on February 2, 2005

    As the reigning queen of psychological stage haze, Caryl Churchill doesn't apologize for the lack of explanation or analytical epilogue in her work. It's a...

  • Blood Simple

    By on January 26, 2005

    Alfred de Musset lives. Though the French romantic never saw his epic Lorenzaccio presented upon the stage during his lifetime, European audiences are familiar with...

  • Dire Straights

    By on January 19, 2005

    Let's get one thing straight: a lot of men are not. But those who fervently claim they are, would never -- I repeat, never pretend...

  • Sucker Punch

    By on January 12, 2005

    If you're planning to produce a bleak, dispiriting tale of bitter realities in post-Soviet Russia that bears the title Black Milk, perhaps you ought to...