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Arena venture’s into O’Neill’s Wilderness
Kyle Donnelly directs Eugene O’Neill’s sweet-tempered, romantic comedy Ah, Wilderness!. The show stars Rick Foucheux, Nancy Robinette and June Schreiner as the Connecticut-based Miller clan....
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Losing a Loved One
In January, Jared Neff was back in his home state. He had a workshop to teach at the Missouri State Thespians state conference for students:...
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Ballot-Box Solidarity
When Rick Santorum talks of imposing his idea of God's Plan on his fellow citizens; when Rush Limbaugh calls a law student a ''slut'' and...
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Junior's Return
Junior Vasquez took the news of Whitney Houston's death hard. ''I was pretty much depressed,'' he says. ''I was bed-ridden for about four days, it...
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Out on 14th Street
I remember in the 1960s watching the buildings burn on TV. I remember visiting a relative on Swann Street in the early 1980s, praying that...
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Review: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
Last August, Stephen Sondheim took to the New York Times to attack Diane Paulus, Suzan-Lori Parks and Audra McDonald for being arrogant and disrespectful in...
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The Vanishing
There are three things you should know about Theater Alliance's How to Disappear Completely And Never Be Found: It's too long, too manic and, ultimately,...
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The Soprano
''When I first joined I was too shy to look up at the conductor,'' says Michele Kennedy of her early days in the San Francisco...
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Life as Cabaret
Early last year, Will Gartshore broke his wrist curling. ''A freak curling accident,'' he concedes. ''Very Canadian.'' Didn't know Gartshore was Canadian, eh? Since the...
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Fixer Uppers
Jeff, Who Lives At Home is a funny sort of movie. Not funny ha-ha, as its trailer so deceptively suggests, but funny like a warm...
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Generating Sparks
Last weekend, Hal Sparks helped Chely Wright launch an LGBT center in Kansas City, Mo. Of course, Fred Phelps and his nearby Westboro Baptist Church...
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The Chieftains with Paddy Moloney
Paddy Moloney founded The Chieftains 50 years and six Grammys ago, aiming to bring traditional Irish music to the world. A concert at the Kennedy...
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In the Pink
Jeffrey Johnson has been part of Washington's cultural fabric for 15 years, even if he got his start on the stages of Columbia, S.C. But...
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Ford’s turns back the clocks to 1776
A buoyant musical that fits Ford’s Theatre to a T, 1776 dramatizes the impassioned debates that forged America’s democracy. Sherman Edwards wrote the music and...
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Tasty Monster’s Personals
The new Tasty Monster Productions presents its inaugural production, Personals — A Love Story for the Rest of Us, a comedic musical romp through the...
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Southern Living
In the days leading up to Rick Santorum's Southern twofer of Alabama and Mississippi, there was a minor contretemps among some pundits about the polling...
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The Fighting Jamesons at The State
The State Theatre celebrates St. Patrick’s Day’s Eve with a show from “the finest Irish band aside from the ones around John Jameson’s barrels of...
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Garbage on sale Thursday for Garbage at the 9:30 Club
Garbage will hit the 9:30 Club in May only one week after the alt-rock band releases its fifth studio album â€" with the barbed title...
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U.S. Embassy “Strongly Condemns” Iraq Killings Targeting Young Gay Men and Others
Addressing the recent spate of “emo killings” in Iraq, in which young gay men and others with similar public presentation have been targets, the spokesman...
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Theater Alliance’s reappears with How to Disappear
After a two-year hiatus, Theater Alliance relaunches itself with the area premiere of Fin Kennedy’s award-winning darkly comic drama chronicling one man’s journey down the...
