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  • Wrestling Demons

    By on September 13, 2012

    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...

  • Fully Exposed

    By on September 6, 2012

    ''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...

  • Temperamental Movement

    By on August 30, 2012

    ''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...

  • Fun at the Whorehouse

    By on August 30, 2012

    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...

  • The Hello Girl

    By on August 30, 2012

    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...

  • August Sizzler

    By on August 8, 2012

    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...

  • Torture Garden

    By on July 19, 2012

    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...

  • Fringe Follies

    By on July 12, 2012

    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...

  • Making Merry

    By on June 27, 2012

    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...

  • Razzle Dazzle

    By on June 21, 2012

    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...

  • Heartache: 'The Normal Heart'

    By on June 20, 2012

    The power of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart lies not only in its incisive, witty and emotionally honest account of the birthing pains of New...

  • Spanglish

    By on June 20, 2012

    Puerto Rico can be a peculiar experience for visitors, with its confusing mix of cultures and commercialism, of Spanish and English – Spanglish – of...

  • Hot to Trot

    By on June 14, 2012

    To be a teenager is to feel overwhelmed. It's lonely. All sorts of oily, crunchy, hairy things happen to your body. You can't stop thinking...

  • Ring Them Bells

    By on June 14, 2012

    Ever see a gender-bending twist on ''Cell Block Tango'' from Chicago? ''I think that is so typical of what the show is,'' says Eric Schaeffer...

  • Apocalypse Now

    By on June 14, 2012

    The best way to approach Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, is to forget how funny The Simpsons is. For although playwright Anne Washburn bases her...