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  • Close Encounters

    By on November 4, 2010

    ''Can two divorced men share an apartment, without driving each other crazy?'' That was the question left hanging at the start of every episode of...

  • Shear Brilliance

    By on November 4, 2010

    kennedy-center.org Of the many egregious acts perpetrated on the American public by the advertising and marketing industry the worst may be this: ''Let the Sun...

  • Golden Silence

    By on October 28, 2010

    Mummenschanz is now in its 38th year. ''It sounds so important when we number the years,'' says the European performance art company's Floriana Frassetto, ''but...

  • Fox Hunt

    By on October 27, 2010

    It's a formula that seems ridiculously easy. You need a set with multiple doors to facilitate fast exits and unexpected entrances. You need a young...

  • Improv Insanity

    By on October 27, 2010

    ''He's sort of that guy who everybody knows is gay, but nobody talks about it,'' says Mark Chalfant. Chalfant plays Skip ''Skippy'' Skipperton in Washington...

  • Cho-sen One

    By on October 20, 2010

    When gay-fave Margaret Cho takes to the Warner Theatre stage Friday, Oct. 29, she won't be alone. Aside from the audience, there will be one...

  • Truth and Consequences

    By on October 20, 2010

    Trying to draw a conclusion about Constellation Theatre Company is not unlike looking up into the night sky, trying to discern the actual figures of...

  • Frock On

    By on October 20, 2010

    ''It was getting a little tedious, frankly,'' says Bette Bourne. ''All these men kind of waving their dicks around, telling us what they'd read and...

  • Fairy Tale Romance

    By on October 13, 2010

    Sometimes what you want is the fairy tale, a storybook romance that begins with ''once upon a time'' and ends with -- if not slain...

  • Dogs and Dragons

    By on October 6, 2010

    It would be easy to read too much into the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and the fact that No Rules Theatre Company's...

  • Gay Altar

    By on October 6, 2010

    ''He's described in the script as having a deep and abiding love for Cher and all things show tunes.'' Patrick M. Doneghy is talking about...

  • Retro Run

    By on September 30, 2010

    With so many playwrights cramming a circus's worth of plot and issues into their pages, it can seem they are writing for an audience with...

  • Spanish, Class

    By on September 22, 2010

    GALA Hispanic Theatre is launching its 35th anniversary season with a production that will not only make you want to be certain the company has...

  • Well Done

    By on September 22, 2010

    If ever a jukebox hit was made for a Shakespearian play, it is Diana Ross' ''I'm gonna make you love me,'' as applied to All's...

  • Moon Shine

    By on September 22, 2010

    Marry for money? Why not? If one marries up, life can be that much better. That, at least, is the guiding philosophy of Susy Branch,...