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  • Lovely Ladies

    By on April 14, 2004

    What if we could somehow rearrange and sort through the private history of our families, reorganizing and reshaping the personal, intimate lives of our parents?...

  • Quest for Fame

    By on April 7, 2004

    ''I started out as a queer comic -- still am. But then I started doing one-person shows. And they got attention and it raised my...

  • Garden Variety

    By on April 7, 2004

    In the beginning, there was Stephen Schwartz. In the 1970s he created the bright and bubbly musicals Pippin and Godspell. In the 1990s he wrote...

  • Merry Mourning

    By on March 31, 2004

    William Finn has known some pretty eclectic characters in his lifetime, and the prominent composer/lyricist writes about their lives -- not the circumstances of their...

  • Kissing to be Clever

    By on March 24, 2004

    ''There aren't a lot of shows you can do with a group of one hundred twenty five men,'' says Jeff Buhrman, Artistic Director of the...

  • Regal Stature

    By on March 24, 2004

    One of the most significant moments in the Shakespearean canon comes at the end of King Henry IV, Part 2 when the newly-crowned Henry V...

  • True Colors

    By on March 17, 2004

    Few words in the English language possess the inherent, unwieldy power to incite black Americans with such intense divisiveness and fervor as two simple, unassuming...

  • Humor Us

    By on March 10, 2004

    Gay is funny. And he'd better be, seeing that he's the host of 14th Street's big gay comedy night. D.B. Gay is among a burgeoning...

  • Hide and Seek

    By on March 10, 2004

    Before August 1998, before President Clinton ordered the United States to retaliate against a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan by bombing the city of Kabul, and before the...

  • Language Barrier

    By on February 25, 2004

    The second act of Melissa James Gibson's opens with Babette (Susan Lynskey) discussing her novel with her agent. ''It's about 20th century screams, ''...

  • Heartbreak Hotel

    By on February 25, 2004

    It's 1911. Seth and Bertha Holly (Randall Shepperd and Lynn Chavis) run a modest boarding house in Pittsburgh where guests stay as long as they...

  • Blemished Brecht

    By on February 18, 2004

         Galy Gay is having an identity crisis. Once a sweet, docile family man and dutiful dock worker, he suddenly finds himself among an unlikely...

  • History's Witness

    By on February 11, 2004

    Looking Over the President's Shoulder, a one-man show about the first African-American chief butler at the White House, brims with ironies. From 1931 to 1953,...

  • Winter's Wonders

    By on February 4, 2004

    Baby, it's cold outside. And inside. Especially in Pine City, Minnesota, the fictional town where playwright Craig Wright loves to frame his eccentric, involved stories...

  • Outing the Ex

    By on January 28, 2004

    ''It would be really easy for me to blast the ex-gay ministry hard, '' says Peterson Toscano of his one-man show Doin' Time in the...