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  • Brotherly Love

    By on May 12, 2004

    No matter how you look at it, Passing the Love of Women is not, at heart, a gay play. Sure, the two central characters are...

  • 2004 Helen Hayes Awards

    By on May 12, 2004

    ''Good evening ladies and gentlemen, I'm Joy Zinoman. '' Oh, but it wasn't. For the second year in a row, Rick Hammerly crashed the 20th...

  • Basic Instinct

    By on May 5, 2004

    They aren't called ''blind '' dates for nothing. The multiple glimpses in every available mirror and window reflection, the clumsy, awkward exchanges, the uncomfortable silences...

  • ''Porcelain''

    By on April 28, 2004

    It's hard to believe that Porcelain is Chay Yew's first play. The 1992 London Fringe Award winner for Best Production, Porcelain marks a brave, startling...

  • A Perfect Tenn

    By on April 28, 2004

    Michael Kahn and Tennessee Williams: what a pair. The two theatre magnates converge in holy matrimony in Five by Tenn, the Shakespeare Theatre production of...

  • Tennessee Pride

    By on April 28, 2004

    ''I'm getting to do plays about behavior and character, '' says director Michael Kahn of his work on Five by Tenn. ''Five different moods, five...

  • Brooklyn Brouhaha

    By on April 21, 2004

    Red-checkered tablecloths, bottles of wine, oil and vinegar, fistfuls of pasta, big hair, bigger passion, short skirts and thick gold chains. This is Joe Banno's...

  • Lovely Ladies

    By on April 14, 2004

    What if we could somehow rearrange and sort through the private history of our families, reorganizing and reshaping the personal, intimate lives of our parents?...

  • Quest for Fame

    By on April 7, 2004

    ''I started out as a queer comic -- still am. But then I started doing one-person shows. And they got attention and it raised my...

  • Garden Variety

    By on April 7, 2004

    In the beginning, there was Stephen Schwartz. In the 1970s he created the bright and bubbly musicals Pippin and Godspell. In the 1990s he wrote...

  • Merry Mourning

    By on March 31, 2004

    William Finn has known some pretty eclectic characters in his lifetime, and the prominent composer/lyricist writes about their lives -- not the circumstances of their...

  • Kissing to be Clever

    By on March 24, 2004

    ''There aren't a lot of shows you can do with a group of one hundred twenty five men,'' says Jeff Buhrman, Artistic Director of the...

  • Regal Stature

    By on March 24, 2004

    One of the most significant moments in the Shakespearean canon comes at the end of King Henry IV, Part 2 when the newly-crowned Henry V...

  • True Colors

    By on March 17, 2004

    Few words in the English language possess the inherent, unwieldy power to incite black Americans with such intense divisiveness and fervor as two simple, unassuming...

  • Humor Us

    By on March 10, 2004

    Gay is funny. And he'd better be, seeing that he's the host of 14th Street's big gay comedy night. D.B. Gay is among a burgeoning...