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Show Explorer
''Playing that role early on in my career actually helped me to come to terms with myself,'' Antonio Vargas says of playing Paul in a...
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'Brel' Done Well
Jacques Brel's ''Ne Me Quitte Pas,'' usually translated in English as ''If You Go Away,'' stands as one of the best songs ever written, holding...
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Big Government
An utterly giggle-worthy mix of satire, irreverence and fuel-injected wit, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's souped-up take on Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector seriously raises the...
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Show Pieces
What do you call a farce that's not particularly funny? The real Mackay. Of course, what you want is the real McCoy – something from...
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Broadway's Future
''If there's one thing that drives me crazy,'' says Michael Kerker, ''it's when people say there really aren't any great young musical theater writers ....
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Wrestling Demons
A semi-satirical distillation of the mercenary world of professional wrestling as recounted by a particularly ambivalent member of its fraternity, Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance...
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Fully Exposed
''Here I am, look at me,'' says local actor MaryBeth Wise. ''I'm proud to be who I am.'' Technically, Wise is speaking for the many...
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Temperamental Movement
''When it ran Off-Broadway, to attempt to sell tickets, they started saying Mad Men meets Milk,'' Michael Stebbins of Rep Stage says about The...
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Fun at the Whorehouse
How does the song go? ''Just lots of good will, and maybe one small thrill, but there's nothing dirty going on.'' {Best Little Whorehouse in...
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The Hello Girl
Those of a certain age might recall that Marsha Mason was married to playwright Neil Simon. Before Simon, however, there was Gary Campbell. ''He was...
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August Sizzler
It's probably impossible to leave a production of August: Osage County without feeling a pang or two of familial guilt. But whatever you do, don't...
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Torture Garden
Slap some skates on Gomez, Morticia and company, ship 'em off to some suburban arena like the Patriot Center, and call it The Addams Family...
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Fringe Follies
Over the next couple weeks you can see a theatrical spoof of Fox-TV's Glee, in which troublemakers are forced to form a comedy club. Also...
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Making Merry
Though it is without doubt intended to please the hopeless anglophile – and slides in just in time for the post-Jubilee afterglow of the alarm...
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Razzle Dazzle
Chicago. Cabaret. Liza with a ''Z.'' Certainly gays are familiar with the musical output of the showy songwriting duo John Kander and the late Fred...
