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Fringe Festival: Pig Iron’s ‘99 Breakups’ (second review)
Choreographing an emotional minefield
People behave in particular ways in a museum; everything is hushed — but not when Pig Iron sets its performance inside one.
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Fringe Festival: Pig Iron’s ‘99 Breakups’
Painful Breakups
None of the moments in 99 Breakups was connected with any other, and all lacked subtext, subtlety, or any larger meaning.
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Fringe Festival: 'White Rabbit Red Rabbit' and 'Rhinoceros'
The power of the playwright’s voice
Given the horrific reports coming out of the Middle East today, the voices of Soleimanpour and Ionesco ring out loud and clear, warning us of the perils of nonconformity in the face of tyranny.
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‘Book of Mormon’ at the Forrest (third review)
Is nothing sacred?
What Joshua taught me is to look at The Book of Mormon as a phenomenon of popular culture — an American one, specifically, in which nothing is considered sacred, and any aspect of the human condition is fair game for satire.
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Gokash production of 'Death of a Salesman'
Willy Loman, risen from the dead
The Gokash production of Death of a Salesman is the first African-American staging of the Arthur Miller classic in Philadelphia. We talk to Kash Goins, head of Gokash, who stars as Willy Loman.
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The boycott of Israel’s Incubator Theatre in Edinburgh
The boycott of an Israeli theater company at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival raises troubling issues.
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Quince Productions' 'Haunted Host'
A classic of gay theater
The Haunted Host provides a strong entry for GayFest and a reminder that gay theatrical history still has a lot to say to today’s audiences.
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'Search: Paul Clayton' at Martha's Vineyard Playhouse
Don’t Think Twice – It’s All Right
Search: Paul Clayton is Larry Mollin’s myth-shattering musical about the friendship between two folksingers, the title character and the legendary Bob Dylan.
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Andy: A Popera Stage 2 by Bearded Ladies Cabaret
What happens after your 15 minutes are up?
Was Andy Warhol really worth caring about? We know him today for the art that hangs in museums, but it was his persona and his superstars that once captured our attention and turned him into the icon he is today. But what do we really know about him?
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Robert Patrick reflects on 50 years of Off-Off-Broadway and gay theater
The other brick road
Robert Patrick, author of Kennedy's Children, stalwart of Off-Off-Broadway, and pioneer in gay theater, reflects on his career.
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