Stage
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A Little Bloated
How does a family endure? Studio Theatre 2ndStage's The Big Meal is entirely preoccupied with that question, and curiously, its answer is found in an...
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Golden Tribute
Maybe you don't love Judy Garland. Maybe you don't understand or – gasp! – respect her ties to the gay community, or why she still...
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Gershwin Jukebox
They're no Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, but Kelli O'Hara and Matthew Broderick make quite the dancing pair in the new Broadway musical Nice Work...
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Pool Party
''Some of the front rows of the audience ,'' says Constellation Theatre Company's managing director A.J. Guban. ''Just a little splash, just a little...
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Westward, Shrew!
The West is more mild than wild in Folger Theatre's new production of The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare's so-called comedy that revels in...
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Bad Faith
Every night right now at Broadway's St. James Theatre, officials are taking donations, passing around collection plates as if the audience were a congregation at...
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Soul-Stirring
Most actors don't make their stage debut at the Kennedy Center. But then the 15 women in the Theater Lab's My Soul, Look Back and...
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Crossed Lines
As a piece arriving in the midst of a chattering class that has not only discovered the joy and angst of parenthood but also the...
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Hayes Honors Gays
The 28th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, held Monday, April 23, at the Warner Theatre, opened with ''Hello'' from last year's Broadway sensation The Book of...
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Untamed: Review of 'Taming of the Shrew'
Strip the art from Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and you are left, more or less, with a rather bitter, violence-prone woman who, married against...
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Occupational Art
''It's a real mix, and a real attempt to bring our local artists together,'' says Quique Aviles. The actor and performer has essentially created a...
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Paying Homage
Every night just before performing his one-man show, Jorge ''Jay'' Alvarez has a moment of panic. ''Oh my God, do I have this in me...
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Adventure Theatre celebrates 60 years of cute-themed theater
Last year, the Adventure Theatre won its first-ever Helen Hayes Award for the show If You Give a Pig a Pancake. This summer, the children's...
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A Woman Alone: 'Strange Interlude'
In the pantheon of social types, there have always been the over-qualified and under-employed. These are the alphas that, never quite launching, end up using...
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Spiderspoof
''It seems like a lot of theaters take themselves a little too seriously,'' says Mickey DaGuiso. That's certainly not true of Landless Theatre, the company...
