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All posts tagged "theater j"

  • Enchanted Evening: An interview with Charles Busch

    Playwright Charles Busch steps into the cabaret spotlight

  • The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide (Review)

    Theater J stages Tony Kushner's extraordinary, intelligent epic

  • Guardian Angel: Tony Kushner

    Two decades after his magnum opus "Angels in America," Tony Kushner continues to expound on gay topics

  • Oy, Relationships

    Yentl seems a fruitless pursuit while Belleville takes too long to get going

  • Yentl at Theater J

    Theater J opens its new season with a familiar transgender story. Originally staged on Broadway in 1975, Yentl is based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short...

  • Sophie's Choice

    ''Sophie, are you okay?'' Phillip asks at the end of The Argument. Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros's 90-minute drama is about an unexpected pregnancy and a woman's right...

  • A View of Rome

    Remember John Waters's A Dirty Shame? ''I was the 'splosher,''' says Susan Rome, who played Messy Melinda. ''I was the person who derived sexual satisfaction...

  • Misanthropic Mamet

    Round House Theatre does very well by playwright David Mamet with its new production of Glengarry Glen Ross, which many consider to be Mamet's best...

  • Folksy Feeling

    If your idea of a fun Saturday night is popping a cold one and tuning the radio to A Prairie Home Companion, then you should...

  • Fully Exposed

    ''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...

  • Judith Ivey and Carolyn Hax at Monday’s Theater J Benefit

    Tony-Award-winning actress Judith Ivey (Steaming, Hurlyburly) plays Ann Landers in Theater J’s one-night-only benefit performance of The Lady With All the Answers, a solo show...

  • Review: Kinsey Sicks in ''Electile Dysfunction''

      {Kinsey Sicks (Photo by Erez Ben Or)} Have you tired of the Republican presidential circus? If not, then here's to the Santorum surge --...

  • Riffing on Republicans

    How could anyone be funnier than Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain? ''I kid you not,'' says Ben Schatz of the Kinsey Sicks, ''there were jokes...

  • 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...

  • Jewish Conflict

    You don’t go to the theater for silence. It’s not a place for meditation or prayer, after all -- at least not if it’s a...