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Drag Race
Ooh la La Cage. It's holding up remarkably well for a nearly 30-year-old musical, especially one that reflects an era of gay life often written...
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Rising Star
''I can't even straighten my hair,'' the unforgettable Afro-headed character Michael Flores joked in Todd Graff's endearing indie film Camp from 2003. ''That's kind of...
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Channeling a Legend
''Growing up I wasn't a big fan of Ethel Merman,'' says Rita McKenzie. ''It wasn't that I didn't like her. I just thought, 'Wow, she's...
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Review: Little Murders
A small company with an intrepid spirit, The American Century Theater taps another piquant time and mood in America's 20th century with Jules Feiffer's Little...
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Review: Time Stands Still
''Happy trails.'' ''Be careful!'' Two ways to say goodbye to someone – one playful and lighthearted, the other cautionary and concerned. Those are also the...
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Review: The Religion Thing
Theater J's The Religion Thing centers on two couples. But, as that bland title suggests, the show's primary focus is on faith. Is faith the...
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Taking the Stage
Will today's musicals have lasting cultural relevance? In most cases no, argues Robert Aubrey Davis. ''One hundred years from now,'' says the local arts critic...
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Stand-Up Ann
Politics as theater? Oh, sure. We see that all the time. But politics as stand-up comedy? Ah, now that is much trickier territory –...
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Dance Fever
Even if you've never been a motherless 11-year-old boy taking ballet class in secret, using the money your father gave you for boxing lessons despite...
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Bon Voyage
The revival of Anything Goes is -- pure and simple -- old-fashioned. And how could it not be? Dating from 1934, the Cole Porter escapist...
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Modern Classic
If Glee were to become a Broadway musical, the result would be something similar to Lysistrata Jones. Oh sure, Douglas Carter Beane's hip new musical,...
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Ever Greene
Stage and screen actress Ellen Greene has long lived with a secret. She's even written a poem about it. ''They said don't let anyone know;...
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Holiday Hilarity
''Right out of high school, I wore a lot of orange spandex and spangles,'' says Michael Stebbins, laughing at the memory. The actor, who grew...
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Big Hair
After six years on Broadway, national tours and a splashy big-screen adaptation, how much charm could be left in the Charm City of the musical...
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Comedy Accompli
A little edgy, a little existential and a lot funny, Second City's Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies, is a high-energy riff on the idea, more or...
