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  • Tony Kushner Illustration by Christopher Cunetto

    Guardian Angel: Tony Kushner

    By on November 20, 2014

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

  • Oy, Relationships

    By on September 12, 2014

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

  • Yentl at Theater J

    By on August 30, 2014

    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

    By on November 7, 2013

    ''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

    By on September 26, 2013

    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

    By on February 14, 2013

    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

    By on November 15, 2012

    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

    By on September 6, 2012

    ''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

    By on May 6, 2012

    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''

    By on February 16, 2012

      {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

    By on February 2, 2012

    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

    By on November 10, 2011

    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

    By on March 16, 2011

    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...

  • Theatre J’s The Chosen

    By on March 13, 2011

    Aaron Posner directs his adaptation of this beloved play based on the novel by Chaim Potok about two boys, two fathers and two very different...

  • The Kinsey SIcks at Theater J

    By on December 17, 2010

    They’re back! The “dragapella beautyshop quartet” comes to Theater J for what’s sure to be a must-see romp of a holiday show, intended as a...