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Bucking Tradition
Every city needs an alternative theater scene. Why? The official answer is that alternative theater speaks to and informs the norm, challenges tradition, broadens ideas...
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Desert Oasis
''And there you have it, a preview of coming attractions,'' Polly Wyeth (Stockard Channing) says, roughly 30 minutes into Other Desert Cities. The line is...
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Bloody Business
Can you handle the tooth? Seriously -- as in an Asian restaurant worker's rotted black tooth that's yanked out in the kitchen and finds its...
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Acting Out
'There were no men not wearing dresses in show business,'' says Jason Stuart, referring to Hollywood 20 years ago when he first contemplated coming...
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Going Green
We all know that the Moor of Venice is supposed to be a hothead, but is he supposed to be this flat-out hot, too? In...
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Blasphemy in Idaho
Whatever the purveyors of the nation's entertainment may believe, or not, there is something about the recent tide of religious fundamentalism that has them running...
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War and Witchcraft
As Arms and The Man opens, Amy Quiggins flutters across the stage playing Raina Petkoff as if she were Barbie come to life. She's giddy...
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The People Sing
''Oh, I don't know if this is something my parents would want to come see me in,'' Eric Van Tielen remembers thinking when he auditioned...
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A Musical Mystery
Adam Gwon got the idea for his new musical The Boy Detective Fails from the most mysterious of places: Amazon.com. The online superstore's complicated algorithms...
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Giving Birth
It's fitting that Duncan Macmillan's Lungs is about childbirth -- as the inaugural production of the Studio Lab series, the newborn is a promising start...
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French Twist
Mon Dieu! If Les Misérables is 25 and I've been a fan since the beginning, then I must be -- well, I guess I'm no...
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Tea Time
Intimate one-man shows are like that friend who's just been on a cooking course. You know, the one who's frantic to make you dinner? On...
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Shows of Shows
There's something truly troubling about Trouble in Mind. A half-century ago, Alice Childress was set to become the first African-American female playwright on Broadway. But...
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Musical Realities
Among tragically themed musicals, Parade marches to the beat of a particularly bleak (and real) drummer: Leo Frank, a Northern Jewish factory manager doomed to...
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Lingering Kiss
Actress Rachel Zampelli decided it was now or never to push for a new production of Stop Kiss. ''I was looking into the mirror, wondering...
