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Buzz Kill
For many, memories of high school include at least one late night spent staring at a blank piece of paper (or computer screen) trying to...
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Miller Time
Anyone lucky enough to see Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and A View from the Bridge consecutively (and thanks to Arena's Arthur Miller Festival,...
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History Making
For lucky students, there is one teacher who touches their minds in a special way that opens the world of knowledge to them and changes...
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White Hot
Once again, Woolly Mammoth courageously enters the realm of black-white relations, this time via up-and-coming playwright David Adjmi's new play Stunning. Much like The Unmentionables,...
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Web Singer
Apparently, cherry blossoms weren't enough. It seems everyone wants his own festival. The Kennedy Center is spending the month of March cozying up with August...
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Making History
Born in 1945 to a father who was a German immigrant baker and a mother who was an African-American cleaning woman, Frederick August Kittel would...
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Illusions of Grandeur
This is not a Penn & Teller magic show. Instead, the Emmy-award winning Teller -- the silent partner in that world-renowned magic enterprise -- has...
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Soul Salvation
Who will save your soul? Long before Alaskan waif Jewel yodeled the question to her audiences, George Bernard Shaw's very non-waiflike Major Barbara was issuing...
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Bathing Beaus
Alan Ball is the celebrated writer behind Six Feet Under and American Beauty. But for local gay director Serge Seiden of the Studio Theatre, it...
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Superficial Ball
All That I Will Ever Be starts with possibly the most insipid act to be found in one of the most stereotypically superficial cities in...
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Time Passages
There are those days when you look up from whatever pile of paper has spread like a cup of spilled coffee across your desk only...
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Purging Playwright
As surreal experiences go, Martin Moran has one that's hard to beat. He's the author of The Tricky Part -- first a Lambda Literary Award-winning...
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Funny Business
If ever you've been torn between stand-up or improvisational comedy, comic Jennie McNulty feels your pain. ''It's not a sketch show, not just stand-up --...
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Pure Gold
It's hard to say what Theater J audiences will carry away with them after seeing Judy Gold perform 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother (...
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Acts of Bravery
Over at Woolly Mammoth, sisters are doing it for themselves. The risk-taking downtown theater company has literally packed the house with two one-woman shows. Nilaja...
