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Paige Turns
Ask Elaine Paige to reflect on her legacy, and she responds expressing awe. ''Well, it's fantastic really, isn't it?'' she says. ''When I look back...
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Haunted House
IT'S ALMOST AS hard to describe why The House of the Spirits at GALA Theatre is so satisfying as it is to document the presence...
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Magical Metamorphoses
Mary Zimmerman is a professor at Northwestern University, and her show Metamorphoses had its genesis as an academic exercise there nearly two decades ago. But...
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Going Weill
''I'm not sure the new generation really knows who he is, or his place in musical theater history,'' Abel Lopez says of Kurt Weill. The...
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Misanthropic Mamet
Round House Theatre does very well by playwright David Mamet with its new production of Glengarry Glen Ross, which many consider to be Mamet's best...
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The One Who Got Away
If there is a way to think of Margaret, the indefatigable protagonist of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, it might be with the words of columnist...
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Nordic Adventures
Alicia Adams has a dream job. As vice-president for international programming at the Kennedy Center, Adams serves as curator for the center's international festivals, travelling...
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Local Heroes
A wolf in sheep's clothing, Thornton Wilder's Our Town lulls with its gentle, sometimes humorous, depiction of small-town New Hampshire life in the early 20th...
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Pool Days
A decade after Mary Zimmerman won a Tony Award for her direction of Metamorphoses, her dramatic interpretation of the Ovid classic is still giving her...
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Shock and Blah
How does one justify a play with the English language's most vulgar word in its title? Well, that's not my bailiwick here. The best I...
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'Zorro' Strikes Again
Despite billing as ''the first modern superhero,'' Zorro isn't strictly a superhero in Constellation Theatre Company's Zorro. In fact, in this entertaining stage adaptation of...
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Mighty Sylvester
Anthony Wayne didn't grow up with Sylvester. In fact, the Norfolk, Va., native was only a kid when the flamboyant and openly gay disco legend...
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Family Ties
For those who squirm at the mere mention of the word ''vaudeville,'' a quick glance at the The American Century Theater's ad for The Show...
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Sexually Speaking
''I would get up and tell a story that might take place in an orgy or something … and I could see the NPR crowd...
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Social Contractions
If you've heard of British playwright Mike Bartlett, it's no doubt because of his provocative play Cock, which last season created a sensation off-Broadway –...
