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DRINK PLENTY OF ABSINTHE BEFORE YOU ATTEND THIS FRAT PARTY Absinthe " an uneasy cross between terrific variety acts and a stag party " takes place near the entrance to Caesars Palace Hotel, …
OH, WHAT FOOL THIS IMMORTAL BE After a short run in Las Vegas, Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour begins its 48-city North American excursion that will last through A…
A VIRTUAL VOLCANO OF VISCERALLY VIVACIOUS VARIETY Not every rewarding entertainment experience in Las Vegas tries to blow audiences' minds with a massive cast, dazzling special effects, and …
THE VALUE IN SIMPLICITY The purposefully simplistic proceedings of David Cromer's production of Our Town may seem bold and innovative to some, especially to those weaned on Broadway spectacl…
WILL THE REAL MOLLY IVINS PLEASE STAND UP? Molly Ivins was a ballsy Texas-based reporter who became a legend in her own time by calling a spade a spade (or, more succinctly, calling George W…
OWNING HER INNER KVETCH In Michael Wex's treatise Born to Kvetch, he asserts that Kvetching (complaining) is not only a pastime for Jews " it's a way of life. Kvetching can be applied indiff…
NOT YOUR ORDINARY EVENING OF DANCE Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith's long-term friendship shapes their every move as a duo dance company. Such a partnership between a straight woman and gay man …
BLACK COMEDY AND KITCHEN SINK DRAMA: AN IRISH STEW While the horror and suspense merely simmer in The Beauty Queen of Leenane " Martin McDonagh's 1996 black comedy " the dark humor, bleaknes…
WARLIKE FROTTAGE The Porters of Hellsgate’s production of Shakespeare’s Trojan War essay, Troilus and Cressida, begins promisingly. A shifting tableau establishes characters …
THE SOUND OF TWO BRITS KISSING Stationary sales executive Eddie and sexy casino worker Crystal fumble through their first weekend trip together in Robert Farquhar's Kissing Sid James. This p…
GO TO THE DEVIL Within the manifesto of Kneehigh " an avant-garde, world-class theater company based in Cornwall, England " is a simple but mighty statement: Kneehigh tells stories. By r…
OUR APOLOGIES FOR TELLING YOU TOO LATE Something is happening in New York theater. With their latest "ugly opera" Apologies (And Other Grey Areas), The Paper Industry explores the uncertaint…
SING A SONG OF AFRICA Fela! is a scorcher. On these chilly nights in December and January, everyone (with a vested interest in the continuing power of musical theater) should retreat to the …
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A GOOD STORY After winning two Tony awards in 2007 for book and lyrics of Spring Awakening, Steven Sater teamed up with the one-and-only Burt Bacharach to write s…
ONE OF MANY GENESIS STORIES TO COME Creating a fresh twist on the Biblical tale of Adam and Eve is no small feat. Unfortunately, Larry Kunofsky's The Myths We Need – or – How to …
SUITORS SUIT ILL-FITTING SUITS Enda Walsh, scribe of The Walworth Farce and The New Electric Ballroom, is one of the great polarizing writers in modern theater:Â his admirers love the Eng…
MEET THE QUEEN Timothy Findley's Elizabeth Rex confines Queen Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare inside a royal barn one wintry night in February 1601. The placement of the two most lum…
TELL US A STORY, AUNTIE CHARLAYNE If I were a child, I would want Auntie Charlayne to tuck me in and tell me a story. Why? Because Auntie Charlayne "Â that’s Charlayne Woodard "Â …
IT'S A WONDERFUL PRODUCTION A stage adaptation of the movie classic It's a Wonderful Life premiered in Connecticut in 1997 and, before long, the adaptation became a staple of the regional th…
A CAROL FOR THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE The Goodman Theatre is the custodian of the most popular tradition in Chicagoland holiday entertainment, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The 201…
TWISTED LITTLE PASSIONS IN THE SUBURBS Now that A Noise Within "Â the Southern California repertory theater company dedicated to the classics " has gotten a snazzy new suburban theater in…
EVEN WITH A FEW CRACKS, THIS HOLIDAY CHESTNUT STILL DELIGHTS It is a testament to the vision of Robert Joffrey that his 1987 version of Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky's perennial ballet The Nutcr…
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UNAPPRECIATED MASTERPIECE OR ABJECT FAILURE? Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein began the Golden Era of Broadway with two musicals that reimagined the previous form of musical comedies " …
THE 1700s MEET THE 60s Back in the early 1700's, Pierre Marivaux was a major playwright in France, but his romantic comedies never made much of an impact on the American stage until the 1990…
